Quick question: floppy based digital cameras

[pikasub]

Are the sony FD mavica line the only digital cameras that use 3.5" floppies? If not, what company makes an alternative. Thanks!

 

[Helznicht]

1200x1600 rez pic => 64meg flash => ~40 pics => 1.6m a pic => none on a floppy?

Yikes, what res do those cameras save @ ? :Q🙂😉

 

[GSpeare]

<< 1200x1600 rez pic => 64meg flash => ~40 pics => 1.6m a pic => none on a floppy?

Yikes, what res do those cameras save @ ? :Q🙂😉 >>



I have a Mavica that does 1024x768 and lower. It's great for doing web photos since the higher resolution is wasted anyway. Back when that was the top resolution you could get in a digital camera, floppies made sense. With a 3+ megapixel camera, it seems a little less sensible...

 

[NelsonMuntz]

To answer the original question... the Sony Mavica's are the only digital cameras that I have seen that use floppy disks for picture transfer.

 

[Gunbuster]

Some other brand used super disks (ls-120)

 

[dkozloski]

Mavica's use jpeg compression. Normal mode gives about 40 pictures/disk, higher res 20/disk.

 

[corkyg]

That was Panasonic. I think they discontinued it . . . image quality sucks . . . but not as bad as Mavica floppy cameras (no optical view finder either!)

Floppies are dog slow on reading anyway. Go CF or SM . . . or now, IBM Microdrive. Proprietary stuff like Sony memory Stick also works, but you must live in isolation. (Proprietary stuff sucks in general just because it is.) 🙂

 

[chuckieland]

get flash memory base it's better