Need Digital Camera Help, Sony Mavica...

[Disneylvr]

I have the older version of the Sony Mavica that uses 3 1/2" floppies and I didn't buy the memory stick. I bought it on clearance last August and love that camera! Now I want to take it to WDW for the first time and plan to bring several boxes of floppies with me. How do I protect them from the airport x-rays?

 

[EpcotKilterFan]

I have never had a problem with them in my carry-on... or my checked baggage for that matter. And I took MANY digital pictures at WDW.

This was my camera of choice until I purchased the Mavica CD-500.

Enjoy!

Debbie

 

[Disneylvr]

Originally posted by EpcotKilterFan
I have never had a problem with them in my carry-on... or my checked baggage for that matter. And I took MANY digital pictures at WDW.

This was my camera of choice until I purchased the Mavica CD-500.

Enjoy!

Debbie

The xray won't erase the pictures?

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

I just carried my film/floppies through and they hand examined them.

I LOVE my Mavica......hope mine doesn't die soon. Wish they'd make more cameras that accept the floppy disks as film.

 

[Dan Murphy]

No harm from screening on digital media, but, you better bring a case of floppies, only 2-6 pictures on a disk, lower quality, maybe 10.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

I love my Sony CDMavica. I don't know about floppies.

Lori

 

[CarolA]

Do NOT put your camera in your checked baggage. If it is lost from there the airline has no liablity and will NOT remimburse you for it.

Electronics and valuables are NOT things for the baggage hold.

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

Dan, I keep my setting on the "fine" for the best quality pictures and I get a minimum of 14 shots per disk, sometimes as many as 20.

When I get home I transfer the pictures onto a CD and then erase and REFORMAT the floppy disk. If you don't reformat it, each use will get you less and less photos.

The camera is a bit big (I really REALLY wanted a cool teensy digital cam LOL) I've never enjoyed a camera as much as this one. I'm soooo NOT a techie that I hate trying to figure out uploading, downloading, pixels and all that jazz. The pictures I'm able to send to people are ready to go. I haven't had to putz and piddle around with the photos like my sister has to with her digital camera.


Then again, maybe it's her computer and not the camera that's making her photos gigantic? LOL LOL
I've really found this to be a very versatile camera....

I love my Mavica.

 

[shoes99]

A little off topic, but I have a Sony Mavica CD-400 which I love. I need to buy another round adapter to use for putting the CD into the CD rom on my old Gateway computer. I tried sony online, several camera shops, and no one has this. I haven't tried calling sony yet, does anyone know where to buy the round adapter?

 

[MICKEY88]

gigantic photos are a good thing.it's easier to downsize without losing quality, than it is to enlarge..

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

MICKEY88, a lot of people don't want to and don't know HOW to resize their photos. Nor do those same people give a flying fruitcake about the "quality"....
they just want to take and send digital photos with ease.

This camera is wonderful for it's ease AND I've taken some surprisingly good photos with it as well!

But like Dan mentioned, DO take enough floppy disks. It always costs more if you have to buy them there.

 

[HookedOnDiz]

The photos are not really gigantic... its just that they have such high resolution that most monitors are incapable of displaying them at their true resolution unless they make them "gigantic".

 

[Dan Murphy]

Originally posted by shoes99
A little off topic, but I have a Sony Mavica CD-400 which I love. I need to buy another round adapter to use for putting the CD into the CD rom on my old Gateway computer. I tried sony online, several camera shops, and no one has this. I haven't tried calling sony yet, does anyone know where to buy the round adapter?

Doen't the CD just go in the CD drive, Cheryl?

 

[Kimickey]

Dan I was thinking the same thing. I have a CD Mavica and have never used the round adapter for my CD rom. I just pop the mini cd into the drive and my pictures come right up. The only thing is you have to finalize the disc first before using putting it into your CPU. But if the disc still has space on it you can still take more pictures to the disc and then refinalize it again. You can do this as many times as you like.

Also I never use the Sony recommended disc. I go to Walmart or Target and get a 10 pack of mini cd's for $6 to $7 dollars.

Buy the way the CD Mavica is the best camera I've ever bought. I love the convinence of my camera.

 

[Disneylvr]

Originally posted by Dan Murphy
No harm from screening on digital media, but, you better bring a case of floppies, only 2-6 pictures on a disk, lower quality, maybe 10.

I am able to get at least 10 photos on each disk as I usually don't want anything larger than 4" x 6" photos printed out. The Mavica easily resizes photos if I was to take a fantastic photo that I might want an 8x10 of. The great thing about digital cameras is that I can delete the photos that turn out awful making room for another photo on the disk. Only problem is that the Mavica adds an extra file onto the disk that can't be deleted! Anyone know how to do this? Some else in this thread mentioned reformatting the disk. I remember doing that in DOS years ago but how is it done now?

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

All I do is click on My Computer and then click on the floppy drive......you'll get the pop up list of things to do and reformat disk is there. Click on that and it cleans all those old files off the disk.

I think floppys are fragile enough though that after reformating the same disk a few times I do toss it.