Sony Mavica FD-83 Floppy Disk Camera Teardown -- The EIectronics Inside 33

OK, first off, that book sounds AMAZING... I'll have to source a copy!

I guess it's fine if you catch it in one hand, but if you catch it in 2 and it flows across your heart...

This reminded me of a book I bought years ago (~2006) called more electronic gadgets for the evil genius. One of the ideas was to hide a capacitor in a tennis ball and add an couple conductive tape pads to each side. Charge it up and throw it to someone!

Had a little comment saying a large capacitor would make a bigger shock, but no real warning!

Thats awesome! I insist that I won't give my son any new tech till he can learn to appreciate how good it is now... He'll start with a game boy, walkman, and BBC Micro...

That's awesome! By coincidence an old Sony Mavica FD-85 from ebay was my xmas gift to an inquisitive 7-year-old, so he could see what old cameras looked like, and hopefully he will tear it down soon!

I'll send him this video link, so he can compare : )

In middle school, we had an Apple QuickTake which used a (proprietary?) disk. Then in college, we had a Mavica in the labs to take "screenshots" of oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers. Even back in the late 90s, I wondered how long it would be until digital cameras could record video to a floppy disk. (I don't think the one we had in college could do MPEG video. but I might remember that wrong.)

Speaking of Floppy Disks... my experience has been: if you can find New-Old stock produced in the 90s, they are more reliable than the disks sold in the early 2000s.

My high school had one (ONE!) of these and I thought it was the most amazing thing! The yearbook staff used it, and it produced photos decent enough for publication. I lusted after one for a long time, but I ended up getting a second-hand Zip Drive instead!

It may have been a lower quality picture than a good 35mm, but was it worse than a 35mm scanned (by a 1990 scanner)?

Excusing the random and uninteresting subject matter of my kitchen table and wall paper, but I think the photo is respectable?

With that said, great fun to play with, and an interesting tear down!

Nice tear down.

I have one of those camera's and it is on my list of things to tear down.

For its day, it was a good design. Crappy picture, but it did put you into the world of digital imaging.

DAB