Thoughts 09 Nov 2008 01:13 pm
Sony MVC-CD400
Over at Pioneer Loan and Jewelry they took in an interesting toy.
It’s a Sony Mavica cd400 that is is admittedly not one of Sony’s great success stories. But it’s a movie/still camera that burns to 156mb cds, which gives it great potential.
The Mvc-Cd400 stores 66 images at 2272 x 1704 and fine quality or 119 at standard quality.
At 640 x 480 it can store 658 frames at fine quality and 1291 frames at standard.
Amazon.com:
* 4.1 megapixel sensor creates 2,272 x 1,704 images for prints at sizes up to 11 x 14 inches
* 3x optical Carl Zeiss Vario Sonnar zoom lens and 2x digital zoom with 5-area multi-point autofocus
* Stores images directly on 156 MB 8cm CD-R or CD-RW (rewriteable) discs
* Discs can be read by virtually all Mac and PC CD-ROM drives (not currently compatible with Apple iPhoto)
* Uses proprietary Infolithium rechargeable battery (NP-FM50 )
I like that “not currently compatible with Apple iPhoto” when is Apple going to figure out that going proprietary on everything is not a good idea?
Because the Mvc-Cd400 burns to cd it’s considerable larger and bulkier than the more conventional pocket digital camera which is probably the reason it’s out of production.
Still with 156mb of cheap storage it might be fun to play with. I’m going over to take a look at it in the next few days.