The 10x zoom allows for photos from a macro at a half inch out to infinity! It has three recording modes: Normal-for regular photos, E-mail-which adds a 320x240 image for each photo to reduce file size for e-mailing, and Bitmap-a non-compression format for actual pixel photos with a subsequently larger file size. The FD-71 has “standard” and “fine” image settings, with “fine” increasing image quality by reducing JPEG compression. The FD-71 comes with a battery charger, shoulder strap and lens cap.ĭowntown Warren, Vermont (Is that a “small dog” on the porch?).Five Effects Modes - Normal, Black & White, Sepia, Negative and Solarize.Six Exposure Modes - Portrait, Sports, Beach & Ski, Sunset & Moon, Landscape and Panfocus.Storage on 3.5" Floppy Discs - DOS Formatted - 15-40 images per disc depending on mode, flash use, etc.Auto Flash - Selectable Forced Flash/Auto/No Flash.Rechargeable “InfoLitium” Ion Battery (Up to 2 hours use with standard battery NP-F330 - Optional NPF-550 offers up to 4 hours use - approx.10x Optical Zoom - Selectable Auto/Manual Focus - Range.2.5" TFT LCD View Screen with Backlight and On-Screen Controls for all functions.A comfortable, easily held digital still camera with 330,000 pixel 640x480 resolution.When I finally got a chance to use a friend’s older FD-7, I was hooked. So many of the Mega-pixel cameras seemed to have downloading difficulties and short battery life expectancy that I kept coming back to the Digital Mavica format.
I decided to center my search on two criteria: Ease of use and battery life. Much like the argument that CDs can never sound as good as a decent LP, due to the inherent digital sampling of an analog product, digital images are nothing more than “sampled” pixels of a real image. Second, I learned that no matter how good a digital camera is, a decent quality 35mm film camera will outperform it, hands down. After months of investigation, talking to owners and reading a myriad of reviews, I discovered two things.įirst, I became very weary of computer product reviewers who touted the camera they reviewed as “the next great thing” in the beginning of a review, only to list so many problems with the product in the latter part of the review that I couldn’t imagine buying one! My wife has spent some time as a professional photographer so when the time came to buy a digital camera for her, I knew not just any one would do. The Sony Mavica FD-71 has been such a pleasant surprise, and so much fun, that I can no longer imagine not having one. Unexpected, very pleasant surprises are rare enough to be a real treat.
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