Sony Mavica CD1000
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| 8 cm CD-R drive in Mavica CD1000 image by peggy. (Image rights) |
Introduced in 2000, the Mavica MVC-CD1000 was the first Mavica digital camera from Sony to use optical CD-R discs, where earlier Mavicas (like the CD1000's predecessor the FD95) used 3.5" floppies. While floppies made it simple to move images onto a computer, with the maximum 1600×1200 resolution of the CD1000, a floppy would only hold about four images. Also, at this time floppy use was declining in the computer world, led by Apple's (controversial) omission of a floppy drive in their 1998 iMac.
The 8 cm mini-CD format adopted by Sony for the CD1000 allowed 156 MB to be stored, although it made the camera rather large and oddly-shaped. Also contributing to the bulk was a constant f/2.8 zoom covering a 10x range from 6–60 mm, for a 35mm equivalent of 39–390 mm.
The CD1000's built-in CD-R burner could not reclaim disc space when unwanted images were deleted; but Sony's 2001 followup Mavica CD200 and CD300 were able to use rewritable CR-RW discs (in more manageably-sized 3x zoom cameras). The 2001 Mavica FD97 had the same 10x zoom as the CD1000; but opted for a dual floppy-disk/Memory Stick storage options rather than the oddball CD-R drive.
