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[Swiss James]

Reminds me of that Amazonian tribe with the lip plates

[Bulsajo]

That looks positively sweet compared to this:



I came *this* close to buying one when they first came out.

[plattwaz]

[The Lemon]

I taught at a Canadian school that had several of them. Back on Planet 1998, those Mavicas were the stuff of dreams.

Institutions loved them. There must be millions of closet shelves in schools and companies full of these things. Too obsolete to use, to expensive to throw away.

I'm sure the one in the OP takes great pictures. Too bad it looks so goofy. I'm not averse to goofy-looking gear, but there's a goofy limit and that piece dances right across it.

[the saint]

[Demophobe]

saint...I was going to drag you into this thread if you didn't post! Actually, your camera is very cool. It may be a tad dated, but it still rocks!!

[dogbert]

[Derrek]

[rumpolestitskin]

I think were all missing one very important point about this camera. Though it may not now be suited to general consumer needs, if your working in education and you want to use IT in some way, you can simply give each kid a disk and get them to take pictures and keep their own disk. When one kid is done he simply passes teh camera to the next kid, who put his disk in.

How much of a pain in the ass would it be to have 35 kids crowded arround a computer trying to sort out who took what pictures?

It's popular becuase of simplicity for education

[the saint]

[OiGirl]

[Bulsajo]

I used to use one at work.
It has a memory slot and can take at least a 64MB card, and it still took decent enough pictures for Power point slides etc.
but it was damned ugly and heavy and embarrassing to lug around to functions.
I had to sign it out from the IT dept whenever I wanted to use it, and I always jokingly threatened to 'accidentally' drop it so they could buy a new one;
Invariably the reply was "Please do."

[the saint]

[Bulsajo]

I don't know the model, all I know is that it looks exactly like the pics I found for this thread.
Of course it still had the floppy slot, but the memory stick slot is... with the batteries? Under the same cover as the usb port?
I can't remember, but I do remember taking out the memory stick and being surprised that such an early model Sony Digital could handle a 64MB stick.

[OiGirl]

I have a Sony Memory stick for my Mavica FD. You can use any size of Sony Memory Stick.