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Summary: Good for beginners, disappointing discerning buyers
Review: I bought this Mavica after using a friends older FD88. I have always been a big fan of the Mavica and its unique 3.5' drive but after having this camera for 3 months now I am pretty disappointed. The picture quality even on the highest setting is very poor compared to other digital cameras in this price range. The color is poor on all settings. 1.3 Megapixels is old news, not something you would want to spend 700 bucks on when you can get a Olypus 3.3 megapixel for that much. The Olympus I just bought makes the mavica seem like a toy, the color a clarity is unreal. I enjoyed the mavica for the 3.5 drive and its no fuss nature but now that I know what else can be had for the same money and giving up a perk the Mavica is on the shelf for my kid to use.
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Summary: easy to use
Review: I have had this camera for a year and have really enjoyed it. I like saving on 3.5 disk, good for backup for important picures. You can adjust the size, quality, etc. I comes with easy to use software. For 1.6 mega pixel it makes good pictures.
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Summary: Good camera for personal use.
Review: I have had this camera for a year and have really enjoyed it. I like saving on 3.5 disk, good for backup for important picures. You can adjust the size, quality, etc. I comes with easy to use software. For 1.6 mega pixel it makes good pictures.
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Summary: IT HAS THE RESOLUTION & MACRO QUALITIES YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!
Review: I have just upgraded to the Sony Mavica FD90 and I love it! This is my third digital camera. My last one was the Sony FD73 and, while it took absolutely incredible close-up shots, the lack of resolution was a shortcoming for me. The FD90 is three times the camera that the FD73 was! Clear, clean shots and macro ability that is just incredible. It's a keeper! Was almost overwhelmed when I saw the buttons & choices on the back, but I started using it easily before even opening the book. Then I got into the book and found all kinds of cool things the camera does! It's a lot of camera for the price in my book.
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Summary: easy to use
Review: I have one and the led screen got broken and want to replace because of the ease to use. The pictures come out like a professionals when printed if right settings are used. Absolutely would recomend to most novice of photographers.
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Summary: Great camera
Review: I hemmed and hawed for quite a while before making the plunge to buy a digital camera. I wanted something to use for online auctions, and take pix to use on my web site. I had been taking analog pix, getting them developed, scanning them, and tossing them in a box. I was going to get the FD-73, but decided I might want higher resolution, so I stepped up to the FD-90. Wow! The #1 selling point for me was the floppy disk storage; friends of mine have cameras with cables and whatnot, and it seems like a big pain. I like not being tied to a proprietary hardware and software interface. I can take pix in the car, and unload them at home, work, or at a friend's house. If I need more "film" I can stop at any supermarket or office supply store and pick up a box of floppies. Just this weekend, I took some pix of a car that a friend was selling, then just handed him the floppy to take home and upload to his own computer. Now the kicker: this camera has MPEG movie capability, which I wrote off as a "well, that's cool, but I probably won't use it" feature. I couldn't have been more wrong - that's the coolest thing about this camera! In addition to the pix I took of the car, I also created a "walk-around" video as well! Downsides? The zoom control is kinda awkward being on the front; they should have left it on the back, so you could work it with your thumb while working the shutter. It takes a great deal of dexterity to work the zoom while shooting a movie. The camera should also ship with the longer-life battery that's available as an option. And they should ship some sort of protective case with it.
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Summary: a web multimedia studio in one(tiny)box!
Review: I just love this camera. If you want big prints of glossy pictures then buy something else. If you're happy with 6x4 prints, but your main focus is on web content then this the camera for you. Photos, movies, sound recording, automatic creation of email photos - all fantastic for web-savvy snappers.
The images quality is very smooth, with good colour balance, there's lots of auto features but you can override them if you want to. I sometimes shoot 200 pix in a single session (expensive if you're using 35mm!)and carry this thing around as much as possible. Love it!
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Summary: Mavica mvc FD90
Review: I love it. Such clear pictures, I can take pictures inside most of the
time without the flash on. It is the easist camera I have used.
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Summary: Fabulous camera - easy to use - great fun!
Review: I own the model that the FD 90 replaced, the FD88 and I have been using it for about a year. I feel I can review the FD90 because it is so similar to the FD88, and is an improvement over mine in a few important respects. The cameras are identical otherwise, except that Sony has made the FD90 into 1.6 megapixel instead of 1.3. This increases the resolution for larger prints and when you compress them (say to e-mail), they won't be grainy. Sony has also added their memory stick capability - a great feature. Let me tell you about my FD88 and since the FD90 is even better, you can judge for yourself. The Sony Mavica FD88 is a terrific digital camera, especially for someone new to the genre and not necessarily extremely Computer literate. It takes great shots and the floppy disk storage medium is very easy to use and download to your PC. While its rated 1.3 million pixels is not as high as some other high level models from other manufacturers, in reality not too many people are going to appreciate much of a difference; the pictures look great, crystal clear, and very professional. Since the FD90 is improved in several respects over an already terrific camera, including somewhat higher resolution (1.6 million pixels), the FD90 has to be a real winner. The memory stick capability is an added bonus - especially if you buy the memory stick-floppy disk converter. Then you can store literally dozens of shots. Well worth the price.
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Summary: Good camera, not as good as its predecessor
Review: I own the MVC FD-88, which was the camera model just before the FD-90. I have to say I prefer the FD-88, which is unfortunate as Sony seems to have just stopped making it.My major beefs with the FD-90 are first that you can only recharge the battery in the camera. This really stinks. I hate having to place an expensive piece of equipment on a shelf while it acts as a $20 battery charger. What a waste. The FD-88 came with a nice seperate charger, which actually took up LESS room than the equipment included with the FD-90, and you could go out and take pictures with a second battery while the first charged. Can't do that any more. Secondly, the FD-90 pauses and freezes the image while you're focusing to shoot, which is really disorienting to me. Not to mention it doesn't get the fine-tuning in auto-focus on close-up subjects, even using the Macro option. I was really disapponted in that. I've used the FD-88 a lot, and the FD-90 was a new toy to try out (my company bought it). I would have to say that I would wait on buying this camera until the "nest best thing" came out.
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