Friday, January 20, 2012

Jurassic Tech Podcast 1: Sony Mavica (1981). First Cam With Storage

http://anewdomain.net/2012/01/20/jurassic-tech-podcast-1-sony-mavica-1981-first-camera-with-electronic-storage/

See link for Audio podcast.


In 1981 Kent Ekberg was a corporate planner for Sony America, trying to figure out a brand new market in photography. Check out the Sony Mavica, below. It was the first still camera with electronic storage.
The Mavica was actually an analog TV video camera — the pics on the early models all were at 570×490 resolution, the same as an NTSC standard television.  The name Mavica — the protoype was MAVICA, short for MAgnetic VIdeo CAmera 



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