Mountain

I recently picked up a "new" digital camera, the Sony Mavica MVC-FD73. It was released in 1999 and saves its 640x480 images onto a good old fashioned floppy disk. The floppy can hold about 30 JPEGs, or a single uncompressed bitmap. I've never really been into photography or cameras, but there is just something about the photos this camera takes that I love. The fact that the Mavica uses a floppy disk is what initially caught my attention. Instead of requiring proprietary cables to connect to your PC, you can just pop in the floppy disk and grab your photos! Also they're dirt cheap.

Neighbors

I started looking into ancient digital cameras after seeing these photos by Froyo Tam taken on a similar camera. There's a certain crunch to the photos (beyond the obvious JPEG compression) that you don't really see on modern cameras, and I fell in love with it. The FD73 has an impressive 10x zoom, and the photos end up with a sort of muted color palette that I find very satisfying.

All in all, I'm very happy with this camera and I can't wait to take some more photos with it.

GALLERY