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Summary: Excellent experience.
Review: I am a beginner at using digital cameras. Actually I know enough to be dangerous!! The Sony MVC-FD83 camera arrived exactly as described; excellent condition. I've found it very easy to use. I prefer the simplicity of using a floppy disc rather than the memory stick. Take the disc out of the camera and pop it into the computer and PRESTO - I've got GREAT pictures to print or email. No more picture developing costs! I contacted the seller by email before purchasing the camera. David answered all my questions promptly and in great detail. I HIGHLY recommend him. It was a pleasant shopping experience. Thank You Amazon.com and Thank You David.
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Summary: Realtors dream cam
Review: I bought my camera in March of this year. I am a real estate agent and I have to say this camera was ideal in aiding and promoting my business. The images it took were sharp and clear. I took both interior and exterior shots of homes and with very little effort I could print up a promotional highlight sheet, which was both professional and impressive. The camera was easy to use and the floppy disk is a very versatile way to obtain the quick results I required. It is a good buy.
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Summary: Sony MVC-FD83
Review: I bought my Sony Mavica FD-83 for Christmas and I am totally satisfied with it, I was quite surprised how well the pictures came out, I would recommend the camera to anyone looking for professional pictures with the ease of an instamatic
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Summary: I Love this camera...
Review: I bought this camera just a couple of days back and I am totally satisfied. Its the coolest digital camera available. I recommend it for anyone who is not a professional photographer.
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Summary: Digital Camera for Dummies!
Review: I can't help but rave about Sony Mavica FD-83's versatility! It has auto/manual focus, digital zoom, four different picture effects including black & white, 2 image quality modes, and it can also record a short video with voice. You'd wonder if you have to be a hi-tech guru to operate a camera loaded with features. Not so! This camera is soooo easy to use that I didn't even have to read the manual to make it work the first time I got it. I just popped in a floppy disk, took pictures, took the floppy out and into my computer and presto! QUALITY pictures right before your eyes! Of course, after finally reading the manual, I found out about the other wonderful features of FD-83. My favorite is the "E-mail" setting which automatically makes a copy of the pictures you take in a much smaller file size and therefore, cuts the upload and download times of the pictures you send through email. No more playing around with your pictures to reduce the file size, it's all done for you! There's more to this camera than I have space to write about them for. Read the other reviews. I highly recommend the Sony Mavica FD-83 ... IT IS WORTH IT!
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Summary: Great Product
Review: I love this camera, I use it alot and think it is fantastic. Love the features and the ease of use.
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Summary: It's very good
Review: I purchased the FD-83 after having borrowed my father's FD-81 off and on for several months. Unfortunately, my FD-83 had a technical problem (autofocus always mis-focused) which required me to return it for repairs under warranty. I live in the Boston area and so there is a Sony repair station nearby. They made good on the warranty and since that time it has serviced us well.The picture resolution is slightly less than you'll find on other digital cameras **BUT** the convenience of diskettes (to me) far outweighs any resolution or storage issues. Someone mentioned that diskettes are expensive. You can purchase a 100-pack at any office supply house for around $20, so I really don't consider 20 cents per diskette as being costly. If you use the standard resolution, which I find myself doing most of the time, I get around 20 pics on a floppy. What I have found as an unexpected convenient bonus is the copy feature -- you can make multiple copies of photos or photo-diskettes on the spot. This is handy when you are on vacation or visiting people. And, of course, 3.5 inch diskettes are available anywhere. When going on an outing I carry five or six. This enables me to snap 100 pics for around a buck, and this assumes I never reuse the diskettes. While the higher resolution pics and *.mpg features are nice and probably were effective at convincing me to purchase this, I realize now I almost never use those features. I also refrain from using the digital zoom and stay within the 3:1 optical zoom range. If I had a longer optical zoom, I would use that, and Sony has made inroads on that in their higher models. From using the older FD-81, I also used MGI Photosuite as the software, which is what Sony used to distribute with their cameras. The FD-83 I have came with different software (ArcSoft with Polaroid PhotoMax) that has more features but I find myself preferring the MGI package more or Microsoft Photo Editor. I just personally find those easier to use. All in all, do I recommend this? YES. I did see other cameras that took better pictures, but how much clarity do you need on a 19-inch screen? Or an 8 x 10 printed photo? This does the job adequately. And the general ease of use, as well as having diskette media convenience makes this worth using. If I really want super-sharp pictures that I would display in a slide show on a 15 foot screen - I can reach for my trusty Canon AE-1 35MM camera. But for general use, the FD-83 is my plaything now.
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Summary: Excellent Camera
Review: I recently bought this camera and loved it. I read a lot of reviews and found this the best buy. I tried the fd-73 and liked that but I liked having the option for manual focus which is great when you use the macro mode. you don't even need to read the book to get started just get yourself a disk and charge the battery and away you go. I like use the standard floppy no cords to hook up or smart cards to deal with. Yes i do agree that you don't get a ton of pictures on a disk but this shouldn't be considered our 1 and only camera this should be used for special stuff. If you want to take a million photo's buy yourself a 35mm not a digital camera.
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Summary: Excellent camera. Easy to use!
Review: I was looking for an easy to use camera to post pictures on theinternet. I asked an online community and many folks recommended theMavica. After researching it along with other cameras I decided to purchase the Sony Mavica 83. It's wonderful! Pictures are sharp, and it scores high marks in ease of use. The camera comes with a lens cap, shoulder strap, battery, battery charger and an AV connecting cable. Easy to use software to "tweak" your pictures is also included. The banana colored floppy disk pictured on the box is not included. I did feel the instruction booklet could have been simplified more. The information on how to operate different features was not always clear. Despite this I was posting pictures within a few hours of purchasing the camera. The camera also offers a short video feature which my children love using! You can also change the tone of your picture from a normal setting to sepia tones, black and white etc with the click of a button! Its wonderful! I feel I can produce nice pictures easily, edit and post them quickly with this camera!
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Summary: I just Love Mine!
Review: I was so surprised at the ease of use of this camera-I opened the box and was quite intimidated by the instruction book- I was up and running in no time-- I invested in the camera case after reading these reviews about no cap for the LCD- I just purchased the sony photo printer for this camera and am anxious to receive it-- I do a lot of crafts and this camera is perfect for transferring pictures on greeting cards, stickers etc..Buy one You will Love it!
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