Tools

These are some common tools used to work on this device. You might not need every tool for every procedure.

Background and Identification

Sony's Mavica line of digital cameras has been revered for its quality optics and great batteries and especially for its use of floppy discs as a storage medium. But with the advent of higher and higher resolution CCD imaging sensors, the small capacity of floppies has made them a much less practical form of storage, requiring unacceptable levels of JPEG compression to fit even a few images on a disc.

Sony has solved the floppy capacity problem with its newest Mavica--the MVC-CD1000--by using a much more forgiving storage medium: CD-R. To keep the camera's size as reasonable as possible, the CD1000 uses miniature 3-inch CD-R discs that offer 156 MB of image storage--enough space to store 160 2-megapixel images at maximum quality--as well as what is effectively instant image archiving. Additionally, the smaller CD-Rs are readable in almost every CD-ROM drive (including the slot-loading iMacs), and for those few drives that can't handle the smaller CD, the MVC-CD1000 comes with a snap-on adapter.

Specifications

Product Dimensions

4.9 x 2.4 x 1.5 inches

Item Weight 2.16 pounds

Batteries1 Lithium ion batteries required.

Lens

10× zoom lens f = 1/4 – 2 3/8 in (6.0 –60.0 mm) (1 9/16 – 15 3/8 in (39 – 390 mm) when converted into a 35 mm still camera) F = 2.8

Drive

Read: Maximum ×8
Write: ×4

LCD panel

TFT (Thin Film Transistor

active matrix) drive

Additional Information

Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000 Manual