Sony’s first consumer digital camera

Sony DKC-ID1 (1996) with an Electronic Viewfinder (EVF)
$1,800.00 USD in 1996
450,000 pixels (768 x 576) with 2 mb Internal & PCMCIA

My Little History of Digital Compacts

very nice find

Wow. Cool piece of history.

Thanks! 👍🏻

And it still works great after 27 years 🙂

Some of those early digitals took surprisingly good pics, I have several taken with a 1.3mp 1998 Olympus that are not bad at all.

Indeed from 1998-99, affordable digital photography (compacts) began to become usable for enthusiasts. 😎

The first, with the Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 to be able to record photos on a simple 3.5" floppy disk.

Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 (1997)
310,000 pixels sensor (640x480)
Storage: 3.5 Floppy 1.44M
$850.00 USD

Thanks for sharing this is so cool

Thanks again 🙂

Sony released a very impressive camera in 1999

The Sony DSC-F505, with its magnificent Carl Zeiss lens
A lens that could rotate about 140°

A serious competitor at the time for the Nikon Coolpix 950

Sony Cybershot DSC-F505 (1999)
2,110,000 pixel sensor (1600x1200)
Storage: 4MB Memory Stick
$950 USD

Thank you, I love this series of posts. Fascinating.
Regards
Gary

Thank you for your feedback 👍🏻

I had a Mavica - don't remember which model. I sold it years ago and gave the purchaser (because I knew him from the bookstore his mom and he owned) several boxes of floppy disks so he would have lots of film! It was really cool to use (at least until you realized the limitation of the number of pixels you were getting LOL). Actually took it to a hockey game at Madison Square Garden and I had to show the guard when he came to my seat that it was a still camera (which was allowed for sporting events) and not a video camera. He thought it was amazing.