>
>The Sony Mavica, when it was first introduced, was incredible compared to
>anything else available. For a while it was actually a sort of "dream camera"
>for a lot of people. However, the limiting factor eventually became
>the 3.5-inch
>floppy drive. Since these will only hold 1.4MB of data, there's no room for
>bigger images with more megapixels. So Sony then upgraded the Mavica
>to work with the smaller recordable CDs so it then produced a 2.1 megapixel
>image, which these days is pretty limited in terms of resolution. It won't be
>long before it will be impossible to even get the 3.5-inch diskettes

We also use this camera for all of our web photos (Digital Murex, etc.). It
should be noted that there is a memory stick adaptor that fits the 3.5
floppy slot, allowing you to take much larger pictures.

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