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Summary: Great Camera
Review: This is a great camera. I was using it right out of the box, after charging the battery for an hour. The controls are very easy to use and understand. The camera comes with a rechargable battery and charger, no more batteries to buy great move sony. The camera displays the status of the battery, disk space and number of pictures on the disk. Oh did I mention that the camera uses regular 3 1/2 floppy disk. You can view the pictures right on the camera one at a time or view them in the index mode, where you view the pictures six at a time. You can also connect the camera to your tv or vcr and let the camera do it's thing, by creating a slide show. You can also review the pictures and delete any one that you don't want. And another great feature is it creates a html document on the disk with links to each picture that's on the disk, what a great idea. I have a son six and a daughter eight and they started using the camera without any instructions now that's easy. The pictures are great the detail in the pictures are out of sight.
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Summary: Excellent camera if no need for large photorealistic prints
Review: This is a well-engineered camera: its feature set, build quality, interface, battery life, optics, and ergonometrics are all top-notch. It is a joy to use and produces high-quality pictures for web site or small photorealistic prints, especially if you use the "fine" mode that imposes less jpeg compression. There is also a thriving Mavican community on the 'net, and lots of useful freeware shareware, and third-party accessories. If you need to print out 8X10 photorealistic prints, buy a 2 megapixel camera; for everything short of this, the Mavica 83 is a superb camera. Unlike other reviewers, I find that this camera does a respectable job in low-light situations. One drawback is the optical zoom, which is "only" 3X. Sony's high-quality teleconverter (~$50) will increase this to 6X. Its use of 1.4mb floppy disk storage hasn't been a drawback for me: the 4X floppy drive is quick, it is easy to change floppies, and one floppy holds a respectable number of images (around 8 in 1024X768 fine mode, around 20 in 640X480 fine mode). The brief MPEG movies are great fun, and an easy way to create video e-mail or to add streaming video web sites. For the price, I'd prefer this high-quality .8 megapixel camera to the "bargain" 2 megapixel cameras, which may have inferior optics. My conclusion: Don't believe the hype about the "need" for 2 megapixel cameras. For e-mail, web, and smaller prints, the Mavica 83 occupies a great "sweet spot:" it combines many higher-end features with superior ease-of-use, convenience, and optics.
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Summary: digital made easy
Review: used this camera first time on thanksgiving this year.was able to operate with ease and show others.placed them on the hosts computor and everyone loved the instant viewing.easy to operate and hold. pictures above expectations.
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Summary: A Great Camera
Review: We bought this camera a couple of years ago and we are very pleased with it. It has a long zoom and can get clear, focused pictures of things yards away.
It can take a minute of digital video with great picture quality.
You do not need to worry about memory sticks or any special slots in your computer. You simply pop in a floppy disc, take tons of pictures and pop the disc in your computer. Instantly, you have great picture.
Small and lightweight.
Has great effects such as sepia, B&W, Negitive, and solorize. You can do all kinds of effects with your sixty seconds of movie.
There is a flash and a giant backlit screen.
You can do slideshows.
Works seamlessly with any picture, movie making and writing program. I reccomend buying the Mavica camera. It was the original and first digital camera ever made.
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