Hi Johny! Happy 2025! Great video! Love the Mavica line from Sony! I use to see them all the time in thrift/charity shops. Never bought one, but always wanted one...thanks for sharing!
I also have a FD71, such interesting over engineered pieces of tech. Nice collection and keep up the good content! PS: foarte fain sa vad frati romani care au pasiuni similare, si care arata ca nu trebuie sa stai in 'vest' ca sa ai acces la produse vechi :)
Thank you for this video, I like your enthusiasm. These cameras are pretty unique: the shape, the size, the big lcd screen and a lot of zoom on some models. Liked the pictures of the FD91: the lens must be pretty good, as the zoomed pictures were also good. + It has a continous autofocus, or a similar thing.
The Mavica is so nice i bought em 4 times: i got fd-5, fd-75, fd-87 and fd-90 Usually i like taking photos with it at Christmas and new year partys, the images just feels so nostalgic Btw congrats with 1k subs,keep up the good work
Hello from Turkey. I am photo and video student. Like you, I also collect old cameras. I have a lot of HI8, minidvd, minidv camcorders and point and shoot digicams but I couldnt find any Mavica yet. Its hard to find at an affordable price in Turkey. I hope I find it one day. I watched and liked your all videos.
A workplace I was at had an FD-91, and in a bit nostalgia I bought one a few years later. If you didn't know anything about cameras it looked like a high tech item but the actual photo quality was another matter--however the large LCD screen with I think a 60fps display was ahead of it's time. They were a very smart marketing move when floppies were starting to fall out of favor so discs were cheap and available all over, and being able to store a few photos per disc had it's appeal. As I recall they tried carrying it forward to the small sized CD-ROM's, but trying to write to a CD to store photos in a camera used and moved around was never going to work sell. A side note is there was an earlier "ProMavica" line from 1988 to 1994 or so that was also discs, but 2 inch "video floppies." They were entirely analog and required a screen capture device to get the image, but held either 25 or 50 images per disc depending on the settings. Being expensive they were used in places dentist's offices and industrial maintenance to capture photos in a time when the JPEG standard itself hadn't been finalized.
I have two mavica's both still working perfectly 🙂 Terrible image quality but lots of fun to use. I access the images from the floppy disk using an external 3.5" USB floppy drive that works well on my laptop. 😋
What batteries did you use? Mine gives me an error that says it has to be infolithium and shuts off. The npfs I have wont work and its original battery dies within 1 min of being on. Also need to know where to find a floppy disk and reader. Any tips?
@@X_scythe10012 a modern floppy disk reader is availabale in any good online store, you just order it. Also you can still find floppy disks new and used on the market.. i showed the battery in the video, you can pause and see the details.
That FD-91 is absolutely hideous, but for its time, it is a technological marvel, aside from the meager resolution. Superzoom, optical stabilization, a surprisingly generously sized tilting display and an electronic viewfinder, all signs of what was to come. In a way, by obviously carrying over a lot of the tech originally developed for Sony camcorders, this design emphasizes how advanced video already was at the time; if I'm not mistaken, Sony camcorders around that time already featured Nightshot as well; by 2000 they certainly did. Meanwhile, I happen to own a Nikon D100 introduced in early 2002, four years after the FD-91, and even though it already has a 6MP sensor and is a much more capable camera when paired with a decent lens, it simultaneously feels like a much more primitive device, already obsolete at its introduction, a somewhat desperate hackjob (the only DSLR by Nikon that wasn't developed from the ground up), stuffing a middling film SLR with the bare minimum to obtain a digital camera with a teensy fixed screen, very slow write speeds (whereas at least some Mavicas had, IIRC, some of the fastest floppy drives ever made to cope with higher resolution pictures, stretching what was possible with the medium) and a JPEG engine so inadequate that one is effectively forced to shoot RAW. I find it quite fascinating how strongly divergent two ostensibly similar technological fields can be in a similar time frame. LiveView and video recording were not a thing on DSLRs until the second half of the noughties.
Hi Johny! Happy 2025! Great video! Love the Mavica line from Sony! I use to see them all the time in thrift/charity shops. Never bought one, but always wanted one...thanks for sharing!
@@thissidetowardscreen4553 my pleasure,thanx for watching. Happy 2025!👍
I also have a FD71, such interesting over engineered pieces of tech. Nice collection and keep up the good content!
PS: foarte fain sa vad frati romani care au pasiuni similare, si care arata ca nu trebuie sa stai in 'vest' ca sa ai acces la produse vechi :)
Problema e ca la noi sunt cam scumpe jucariile astea.. mersi mult! 👍
Thank you for this video, I like your enthusiasm. These cameras are pretty unique: the shape, the size, the big lcd screen and a lot of zoom on some models. Liked the pictures of the FD91: the lens must be pretty good, as the zoomed pictures were also good. + It has a continous autofocus, or a similar thing.
Yes, that one is a lot better, but anyway, they are fun to use nowdays :) thanx for appreciation! 👍
I had a cell phone that was zero point three megapixels. Just getting a recognizable image out of it was a success
@@CaptRohmer interesting, yes.. i remember that time, it was about 15 years ago :)
The Mavica is so nice i bought em 4 times:
i got fd-5, fd-75, fd-87 and fd-90
Usually i like taking photos with it at Christmas and new year partys, the images just feels so nostalgic
Btw congrats with 1k subs,keep up the good work
@@NVM5x86 yes, they are interesting and nostalgic :) thank you very much! 👌
Nice collection and video!
Thank you!
Hello from Turkey. I am photo and video student. Like you, I also collect old cameras. I have a lot of HI8, minidvd, minidv camcorders and point and shoot digicams but I couldnt find any Mavica yet. Its hard to find at an affordable price in Turkey. I hope I find it one day. I watched and liked your all videos.
@@gordonfreeman1126 i hope you find soon.. thanx a lot! 👌
Dang very nice collection very awesome cameras
@@austin_greenSC000 thanx a lot!
A workplace I was at had an FD-91, and in a bit nostalgia I bought one a few years later. If you didn't know anything about cameras it looked like a high tech item but the actual photo quality was another matter--however the large LCD screen with I think a 60fps display was ahead of it's time. They were a very smart marketing move when floppies were starting to fall out of favor so discs were cheap and available all over, and being able to store a few photos per disc had it's appeal. As I recall they tried carrying it forward to the small sized CD-ROM's, but trying to write to a CD to store photos in a camera used and moved around was never going to work sell.
A side note is there was an earlier "ProMavica" line from 1988 to 1994 or so that was also discs, but 2 inch "video floppies." They were entirely analog and required a screen capture device to get the image, but held either 25 or 50 images per disc depending on the settings. Being expensive they were used in places dentist's offices and industrial maintenance to capture photos in a time when the JPEG standard itself hadn't been finalized.
@@Blue-Tiger-u7s interesting facts, thank you! 👌
Hí! You can tighten the screws a bit on the FD91 and the plastic will stop making sounds when you grab it. Thank you for the video.
@@ReparadorAficionado good point, thanx!
I have two mavica's both still working perfectly 🙂 Terrible image quality but lots of fun to use. I access the images from the floppy disk using an external 3.5" USB floppy drive that works well on my laptop. 😋
@@dunnymonster nice, enjoy them as much as you can! :)
I have an FD75 really fun camera
@@retrorambles517yes, they are all fun to use nowdays :)
What batteries did you use? Mine gives me an error that says it has to be infolithium and shuts off. The npfs I have wont work and its original battery dies within 1 min of being on. Also need to know where to find a floppy disk and reader. Any tips?
@@X_scythe10012 a modern floppy disk reader is availabale in any good online store, you just order it. Also you can still find floppy disks new and used on the market.. i showed the battery in the video, you can pause and see the details.
That FD-91 is absolutely hideous, but for its time, it is a technological marvel, aside from the meager resolution. Superzoom, optical stabilization, a surprisingly generously sized tilting display and an electronic viewfinder, all signs of what was to come. In a way, by obviously carrying over a lot of the tech originally developed for Sony camcorders, this design emphasizes how advanced video already was at the time; if I'm not mistaken, Sony camcorders around that time already featured Nightshot as well; by 2000 they certainly did. Meanwhile, I happen to own a Nikon D100 introduced in early 2002, four years after the FD-91, and even though it already has a 6MP sensor and is a much more capable camera when paired with a decent lens, it simultaneously feels like a much more primitive device, already obsolete at its introduction, a somewhat desperate hackjob (the only DSLR by Nikon that wasn't developed from the ground up), stuffing a middling film SLR with the bare minimum to obtain a digital camera with a teensy fixed screen, very slow write speeds (whereas at least some Mavicas had, IIRC, some of the fastest floppy drives ever made to cope with higher resolution pictures, stretching what was possible with the medium) and a JPEG engine so inadequate that one is effectively forced to shoot RAW. I find it quite fascinating how strongly divergent two ostensibly similar technological fields can be in a similar time frame. LiveView and video recording were not a thing on DSLRs until the second half of the noughties.
@@MM. exactly, very good observations. I just hope these won't be forgotten in time :) Thanx a lot! 👍
Its the video one btw
@@X_scythe10012 thanx!