page_title: Sony Mavica
section_title: Digital Mavica line
hierarchical_section_title: Sony Mavica / Digital Mavica line
caption_attribution_description: English: The 0.3 M pixel 640x480 sensor used in the Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 digital camera from 1997
context_page_description: Mavica was a brand of Sony cameras which used removable disks as the main recording medium. On August 25th 1981, Sony unveiled a prototype of the Sony Mavica as the world's first electronic still camera.
  As with all Mavica cameras until the early 1990s this first model was not digital. Its CCD sensor produced an analog video signal in the NTSC format at a resolution of 570 × 490 pixels. Mavipak 2.0" disks were used to write 50 still frames onto tracks on disk. The pictures were viewed on a television screen. Otherwise, this camera is positioned as the "pioneer of the digital era".
  During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Sony reused the Mavica name for a number of digital cameras that used standard 3.5" floppy disk or 8 cm CD-R media for storage.
context_section_description: From the late 1990s on, Sony released a number of cameras based on digital (rather than analog) technology under the "Digital Mavica", "FD Mavica" and "CD Mavica" brands.
  The earliest of these digital models recorded onto 3.5" 1.4 MiB 2HD floppy disks in computer-readable DOS FAT12 format, a feature that made them very popular in the North American market. With the evolution of consumer digital camera resolution (megapixels), the advent of the USB interface and the rise of high-capacity storage media, Mavicas started to offer other alternatives for recording images: the floppy-disk (FD) Mavicas began to be Memory Stick compatible (initially through a Memory Stick Floppy Disk adapter, but ultimately through a dedicated Memory Stick slot), and a new CD Mavica series—which used 8 cm (3") CD-R/CD-RW media—was released in 2000.
  The first CD-based Mavica (MVC-CD1000), notable also for its 10× optical zoom, could only write to CD-R discs, but it was able to use its USB interface to read images from CDs not finalized (CDs with incomplete sessions). Subsequent models are more compact, with a reduced optical zoom, and are able to write to CD-RW discs.
  A couple of the models were formed with a single lens reflex component combined with an interchangeable lens. And to give them flexibility, one or two versions also had lens mount adapters.
caption: The 0.3 M pixel 640x480 sensor used in the Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 digital camera from 1997
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