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- OBJECT TYPE
- digital/zoom
- DATE
- 1998
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2011.0016.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Sony Corp.
- MODEL
- Mavica MVC-FD81
- LOCATION
- Japan
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- A 11430
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 8
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Synthetic & metal camera body is predominantly black, with silver/grey front panel and selected fittings; glass optics and view screen; clear synthetic flash emitter window.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 14.0 cm
- Width
- 6.0 cm
- Height
- 10.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Photography
- Category
- Cine cameras
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Sony
- Country
- Japan
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
This camera was the first digital camera owned/used by the donor. It was purchased new in February 1999 for $1144.00 CDN. - Function
-
To digitally capture and record still images or motion images on a 3.5 inch floppy disk. - Technical
-
The Sony Mavica line of cameras were introduced in 1981. The Mavica name is a short form for magnetic, video and camera. Although not digital, the early Mavica cameras were the first fully electronic cameras introduced to the commercial market that used a solid state chip (ccd) as a sensor and a magnetic disk for image storage. In 1996, Sony introduced the Mavica MCD-FD5, now a fully digital camera, that could store images in JPEG format on 3.5 inch floppy disks. The Mavica MCD-FD81 was introduced in 1998 with a 3x optical zoom lens as a cheaper option to the MCD-FD91's 14x optical lens. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- SONY" and "Digital Mavica/ QUICK ACCESS FD DRIVE 2X/ MPEGMOVIE" marked on camera front. "SONY ® MODEL NO. MVC FD81/ DIGITAL STILL CAMERA/ A 11430/ SONY CORPORATION/ MADE IN JAPAN/ DC=7.2V 3-052-559-01" printed on decal applied to underside of camera. "DIGITAL STILL CAMERA/ MVC-FD81" printed on top of camera body. Numerous other markings, some on decals, appear on camera. All controls, etc. labelled.
- Missing
- Unknown: appears to be complete.
- Finish
- Synthetic & metal camera body is predominantly black, with silver/grey front panel and selected fittings; glass optics and view screen; clear synthetic flash emitter window.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Sony Corp., Camera, 1998, Artifact no. 2011.0016, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2011.0016.001/
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