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I believe this to be one of the best cameras, for the the average price( on EBAY), for any type of photo rendering, EBAY listings, websites, archival work, ect! Mounted on a tripod, this camera will out-perform most anything on the market at 10 times the price! Don't let the low megapixel rating(2.1MP) fool you! The resolution options are incredible! I started selling on EBAY a year ago and, I used a CD1000 and an older FD95 and found them to be better and easier to use than some of my higher end cameras I was using! These may be considered "Obsolete" formats but, they perform like a high end Nikon! The only drawback is action photography, it is a bit slow on the draw! You best learn to pan the subject! Ebay wanted a rating, my rating is between GOOD and EXCELLENT!
It's. 17 year old big camera with only 2.1 mp. So what, it takes great photos, 10x optical zoom works perfect, and has a ton of manual options easily accessible. Manual focus, image stabilization, white balance all adjustable on the fly without shuffling through menus. Best part is it makes hard copy on disc so you never have to worry about downloading or if your computer crashes. Downside is you need a few seconds between clicks. Great flash too, doesn't bleach images. Pictures look great printed up to 5x7. The only thing suffered with the low mp is the photos aren't really croppable as they quickly pixelate. The only media it stirs on is the cd. Works on the same np 550 batteries as most other Mavicas. No disappointments with this oldie but goodie.
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I've been involved in photography on and off for more than 50 years. I've lived through the Argus C3 era, Kodak Brownie, Polaroid early Pentax and finally my Canon and the "A" series 35mm cameras. All had a place in history, from print film, transparencies, and the instant prints. The Sony Corporation has been a major player in the electronics field, from pint sized pocket radios, to giant screen television. They have also led the world with innovations covering every imaginable electronics device one can think of. In the world of photography, Sony continues to design and market truly remarkable picture taking devices. The Mavica line took my interest several years ago with my first, a MAV-FD-91. It was a 1 megapixel camera that could take pictures and store the exposures on a conventional 3 1/2" floppy disk! Very innovative engineering. The quality of the exposures was(is) outstanding. A little later on Sony, after a few Mavica model changes, offered an adapter, shaped like a floppy disc, that accepted a memory stick. This combination broke the limitations gap of a floppy disk and added greater storage, megabytes!!! As progress continued over the years, Sony never lost a step in their contributions to photography, which brings me to the case in point. My first Mavica, the FD-91, cost me 1000.00. The models that followed were not much more cost effective. Not to worry! I joined eBay in 2004 and found an ocean of Sony cameras. More importantly, the very models I had wanted over the years and could'nt justify the expense, abounded on eBay. Hence the MVC CD1000. The camera I waited for for so many years. The camera, that as far as I'm concerned, delivers all the power, function, versatility, features, and technological innovations of all the cameras I've known. Permanent storage design using CD media, fully automatic and manual operating modes. Incredible optics, including 20X telephoto, image stabilization, SLR (true) through the lens viewing system, alternate LCD image display, threaded lens barrel for add on lenses. The Sony Mavica CD1000 Digital Camera has culminated into (for me) the most complete camera I have ever known. And, the beauty associated with the CD1000, is eBay, and the platform for ownership of a camera that carried a retail price of over a thousand dollars, to an incredible value at less than a hundred. Yes, I love the Mavica line. I have all the models introduced over the years, and can attest the quality, features, and performance of these great machines, are second to none. The sturdiness embedded in the Mavicas is also a great attribute. If reasonable care and tendering of these cameras is imposed, the same quality that came from the first snap of the shutter, will offer the same fine photographic images thousands of snaps later. Thank you for this opportunity to express my views on Sony, and their very magical Mavica line of cameras. I have enjoyed years of faithful and productive service from all my Mavica machines. I can recommend, without reservation, the same experience and satisfaction I have realized from my use of these marvelous cameras. Kindest regards, Reel AudioRead full review
I love this camera. I've owned 3 in my life and keep buying used ones when the others wear out. Even though 2.1 mexapixel, the Karl Zeiss lense is by far the strongest part of this camera. I call it my spy camera because the zooming can show you the nose hairs of a person clear across the room. While it's greatest weakness is movement of anytype, this is an awesome camera for still life photography. Pictures of flowers take on a dreamy almost 3D quality. Again the lens makes it. and the Moon + setting makes it quick and easy to take night shots on a tripod that are super brilliant and make nighttime shots look like day. I love this camera. Even though I have a top of the line Nikon SLR, I still take this sony with on every shoot and often capture images my Nikon cannot in terms of quality. Call me a Sony bigot, but I love this camera and while you have to be careful not to lose pics on those flaky CDs, if you are good about finalizing often, you don't run a risk of losing much. The batteries run dry too so good idea to have 2 on hand for any shoot cause battery usually only lasts about an hour. good luck and happy photo hunting! phyllis@nettone.biz my pics on flickr are ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/75649428@N00/Read full review
So far so good . Got a lil nervious when I found out they were due to discontinue the mini pocket disks that it takes so I bot a lifetime quantity of them . It is super telefoto I can catch a fly across the street of focus in on closer than an inch in one mode . it also has a few diffrent textures it makes like seipea tone or one that makes the pic look like a drawing or negitive tone .What I first liked about it was it used cd roms instead of expencive memory chips. So far i have just stored on a bunch of picks it holds 1000 low res photos per cd rom .I think the main thing I liked was it's huge lens that sticks out . folks will think you really know what you are doing . I down loaded the 80 page manual and digested that made a book . There are a million diffrent knobs and switches on the thing . So far so good . if you get one you can buy tons of pocket cd roms on ebay fairly cheap . so get lots of them you can also get re riteable ones . I hear the dvd's don't work they are the same size as the CD-RRead full review
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