Y2K Digital Camera: Sony Mavica MVC-FD73

I've wanted one of these for a while. I found one at Goodwill like five years ago for $10 but passed on it because I didn't know if it worked and I didn't have any floppies. Well now I have dozens of 3.5" floppy discs and a Sony Mavica camera, too.

It has a 0.3MP sensor. In 1999 you didn't advertise the megapixels because no one knew or cared. Just having a camera that took instant, digital photos was all the marketing needed. The megapixel thing is mostly marketing anyway, which is a whole different post.

Anyway I love it. My one complaint is the photos aren't quite crappy enough. They look pretty bad on a normal computer screen, but on a phone they're practically passable. I guess I can play with the settings a bit, although there really aren't any. There's "standard" and "fine" quality and that's about it. Honestly I can't tell the difference between standard and fine. Both settings shoot images at a 640x480 resolution.  

You can save images as JPG, Bitmap, "for Email" or "Both," which writes a JPG and a BMP to the floppy. It takes about 5 seconds for the image to save. You can hear the floppy drive inside spinning and doing its thing. It's pretty great.

Here is a photo taken with the "fine" setting:

The remaining photos are taken with the standard setting. Kind of can't tell the difference between the image of the floppies taken above with "fine" and the one immediately below taken with "standard." I almost think the "standard" photo looks better?