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Summary: Saves money in the long run
Review: The Mavica MVC-73 is a good low end camera. If I want to blow up my pictures to 16X20, I use my 35mm SLR. Megapixel cameras do take better pictures but they require EXPENSIVE memory cards. The camera takes great shots for web sites and email. If you shop around, floppies cost almost nothing. With a rebate, I bought 100 floppies. I put 10 of them in a bag and I took over 200 photos. (It would have cost me hundreds of dollars to save that many pictures on memory cards.) They used up less room than two rolls of film. The recharable battery lasts forever and I can go out and take hundreds of photos without having to dump the memory card. Achiving the photos uses little disk space on my hard drive. The camera is very easy to use and in the long run pays for itself on the savings on film development, batteries or extra memory. I give copies of disks right on the spot and the camera is very reliable. If you are looking for a good "snapshot" camera, this is a good one. The other reviews mention the good and bad points of the camera so there is no need to mention them again. This is a great camera for real estate or onsite documentation and great for the 100000000 pictures of the baby or the family picnic. It's a fun, simple and easy to use camera. How many pictures do you wind up enlarging? I run my favorites on my screensaver and they look great.
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Summary: Great for kids
Review: I purchased the Sony MVC-FD73 yesterday on behalf of my husband for use at his school with children aged 5-11 years old.He charged the battey up and then handed it to me As I already own a digital camera and have photo editing software on my computer he thinks I must be an expert! I took 14 photographs, they had to be indoors as it was dark outside. Cats and dogs were most unco-operative, but eventually I had enough pix to work on and transfered them into the computer, re-sized added captions and printed them out. I found the camera very easy to use. It was very quick and easy to transfer the photos from the floppy to my hard drive, and the results were pretty good, seeing as I had not even bothered to read the instruction manual. I did have problems with red-eye, which I could have corrected if I had not been in such a hurry. The photo resolution is not as good as on my Kodak camera, but for beginners and certainly for children, it was good enough. I liked the fact it was easy to use and had various diferent modes, the Fine Art one was good, I have a lovely "Impressionist" type photograph of my blue Burmese cat. If you want a camera that is fast and easy, as a starter kit, this seems to be a good buy. ... , but we always seem to have to pay more on this side of the pond than you lucky folks in USA ! My husband was very please with the printed out results, and he has taken them to school today together with the camera, for the children and the rest of the staff to see. I expect they will have lots of fun using it .
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Summary: outdoors on the flight-line
Review: This camera was a great asset to our engineering department. We used it extensively outdoors and at nite in northern Illinois. It gave us the capability to communicate via company intranet in a very fast and accurate manner technical data when we used a reference template in photos..Many cudos to this photo machine.
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Summary: Thumbs Up
Review: This is my introduction to the digital camera. So far, I'm very pleased with the results. The Mavica is programmed with five picture formats: Fine, Sepia, B&W, Negative Art, and Solarize. It is easy to use, even for the beginner. I disagree with some of the reviewers regarding its size. I was able to shove it in my purse when I wasn't using it; however, for the price, I would've liked to see it come with an extra battery and a carrying case. It does come with a shoulder strap, which isn't uncomfortable. The camera has zoom capability, but I found that you have to be careful with blurring. I don't fault the camera, but the photographer. I have had some experience with blurred pictures and red-eyes. Photo-enhancing software such as PhotoShop will take care of that. I know because I've tried. The Mavica works well with Macs and PCs. The only problem I came across was sending the pictures after editing them with PhotoShop. If your mother doesn't have the same software that you do, then you will have to send that blurry or red-eyed picture of Junior. Oh, well. I like this camera, but if I win the lottery someday, I will go out and buy a CD camera because of the memory constraints that these floppy-based cameras have.
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Summary: Sony MVC-FD73 is for users do not care about Sharp Pictures
Review: I recently got the Sony Mavica MVC-FD73. At first I thought it was cool, But it does have flaws. I think it's good for the price if you got kids who want to take pictures of their pets or take random pictures. Here is a list of pros and consPros: Cheap and afforable No hassel with memory cards Cons: Big and bulky Not even 1 megapixel, so the pictures come out blurry Tried everything in the manual and nothing seems to help. So I decided to sell this camera and will get a camera with at least 3-4 megapixels. Save your money and get something else that is more compact and has a higher resolution.
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Summary: mvcfd73 great for web use
Review: started using a 35 mm and large format camera , now into the digital age and grand children are an endless supply of fun with this unit and am taking all the photos and coping them to cd. and for storage i use my laptop and then email files home to be edited .you can use bitmap and fifty floppys are only a few bucks so you can use hundreds at a wedding and load them to the view at the wedding the christmas photos were fantastic i emailed hundreds out to friends and relatives . "now if sony can only come up with something to copy all the old 35mm negatives i have" a negative copyier to colour
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Summary: Love it!
Review: We bought our camera this past spring to use at a wedding. It was awesome. I love the fact that it is very easy to use and you can view them on any computer. It holds up to 23 pics on one floppy and we like the way you can copy right over the picture you take as many times as you want to. We made a copy of the pictures we took for family members instantly. The zoom is wonderful and we find that Sony makes the best.
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Summary: FD73 an okay, fun camera
Review: The Sony Mavica FD73 is lots of fun and easy to use. The convenience of being able to use 3 1/2" discs as your storage media is worth a lot. The zoom and macro capability is excellent. Having said that, the picture quality is acceptable for snapshots, email, and auction sites, but is a far cry from photo quality. The images get very grainy in low light, and are quite pixelated if enlarged at all. Reflections and very bright spots are not handled well...light to dark transitions are coarse. You'll be able to get decent prints up to about 5X7, but beyond that things start to get a bit fuzzy. I've had great fun with this camera and enjoy using it, but I'm currently shopping for an FD88 to improve the image quality.
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Summary: did not like
Review: The images always seemed out of focus. I read the manual word for word and nothing helped. For every image I took there was a ghost image sitting beside it that had to be deleted to get it out of the way. I tried different kind of disks to no avail. I tried the disk in different computers with the same results. I would not recommend this camera.
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Summary: Great digital camera--so easy to use!
Review: I have had this camera for only a few months, and I LOVE the pictures I've taken! The prints from them look great! The color and lighting is always just right, as long as you don't get too close with the flash. I have enlarged one of them to about a 6x9" and it looks good, only just a little grainy if you look close. I never use my regular camera any more. My only problem is that I need a good printer to print the photos on!
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