As far as I can tell, this just changes the focus to a closer focus. On the front of the camera is a slider for a “macro” mode. The lens is around a 50mm equivalent with my best guess, and this article says 47mm. There’s no lag and it’s easy to compose your shot. The live view on the camera works incredibly well. It’s always fun to see what life the camera lived over the years before finding itself in my hands.
I even found a few photos on them from some previous owner. I was a little worried that the floppy disks would be corrupted or broken in someway, but I was fortunate enough to find all of them function without a hitch. Thankfully, this battery is still used today in several video lights so picking up this generic brand one from eBay was cheap and easy. (In my case I used an additional generic USB to USB-C adapter cable).Īfter opening the package I realized the Sony NP-F550 battery I had was a newer modified version that wouldn’t fit. I can confirm it works with my M1 Macbook. Here’s the external USB floppy disk reader I picked up. I’ve learned my lesson with buying old cameras only to realize the pain it takes to read obscure media, or find proprietary batteries or cables. I knew picking one of these up I would at least need a floppy drive. They look like the new Polaroid film cameras, except instead of low-fidelity instant film prints you get ultra low quality digital pixels. Square in design and large enough to hold a floppy disk within and not much more. Could there be a better throwback to nostalgia for a 90s kid photography than this?īeyond the memory format the cameras themselves are super interesting. We had stacks and stacks of them laying around. As a kid I remember installing software and passing off files and programs to friends using floppy disks. The idea of shooting on floppy disks as a memory format immediately resonated with me.
It is a pity, because it’s the more basic model of the two, but I don’t think that matters a whole lot in terms of the final image, as you’ll see in a moment. On the other hand, my Sony FD5 works like a charm. While it powers on, can read from the floppy, and even take a picture, the pictures are a blurry purple mess indicating a possible sensor failure. I liked the lot for the cameras but also the included floppy disks and sellers statement that everything was working when last used years before.
I was able to pick up a Sony FD5 and FD7 on eBay for $30, thrown in with some other old camera gear. Watch me unbox the Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 for the first time.
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