Comments on: Akio Morita And 1981′s Sony Mavica Electronic Camera

By: Picturing the Internet in 1981

Picturing the Internet in 1981 — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:36:19 +0000

[...] Sony Mavica camera, released in 1981, was the beginning of the digital camera revolution. The Mavica itself [...]

By: Electronic Buyers Store

Electronic Buyers Store — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:39:00 +0000

Thanks, nice post. Sony mavica electronic is really good. It’s amazing. Keep it up………….

By: Electronic Buyers Store

Electronic Buyers Store — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:24:00 +0000

Thanks, nice post. Sony mavica electronic is really good. It’s amazing. Keep it up………….

By: Pull Out Bed

Pull Out Bed — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:23:09 +0000

Classic camera! Thanks for sharing.

By: Pull Out Bed

Pull Out Bed — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:23:09 +0000

Classic camera! Thanks for sharing.

By: K Pepperd

K Pepperd — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:18:52 +0000

It was released a couple of years later. I have one. Bought it through military BX while overseas in Europe. (Around '84 or '85 I think) Don”t know if it ever made it to the U.S. market or not. Found your posts because I'm trying to get it up and running to see if I can get my pics off the disks. This one was designed as a point and shoot. You hold it flat, kinda like looking through binoculars. The batteries were typical Sony…proprietary nicads that have long since died and cannot be rebuilt because the cells are not available. The power adapter/charger still powers the camera though…now if I can just find the old video adapter cable and plug it into a TV………Then I can try to figure out how to make something of still video pictures………….

By: K Pepperd

K Pepperd — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:18:52 +0000

By: Webacanezzar

Webacanezzar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:43:34 +0000

I have a Mavica disc player/recorder that uses 2″ floppy discs. Have you found someone to save your photos yet ?

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:20:24 +0000

I have some of those floppy disks and I'm trying to find a way to pull images out of them. Do you have any suggestion, is there any reader for those floppy disks? The Mavica camera does not work anymore, I would only like to be able to pull out all my images without losing memories of my children.
Thank you.

By: Royston

Royston — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:33:37 +0000

What an awesome find!! Thanks for sharing it. I wonder if it was ever released or never moved past the prototype stage.