HIT: Sony Mavica

[Anne K Zahra <annekzahra@YAHOO.COM>]

>I plan on buying a digital camera for school and am
>considering the Mavica 85, which also takes video
>shots.  Has anyone used this camera?  Can most
>computers (ours are 3 years old) accommodate the
>video?

Is this the Sony model that stores pics on a regular
floppy disk?

It's possible your computers won't be able to do
anything whatsoever with the video, unless the videos
recorded in a digital format the computers can read.

I'm not familiar with the Mavica per se, but I had a
camera at my old school which took video clips up to
15 seconds.  The problem was that I could copy the
clips to a VHS tape through the S-video cable, but if
I exported them to the computer, they exported as a
panel of individual still frames.  To recreate a video
effect, I had to painstakingly cut each frame into a
separate file, then create a GIF animation-- a process
which took about 3 hours and required two high-end
graphics programs and considerable patience to
complete.

Ask the salesperson if the camera can export *MPEG
video*.  I believe that is a standard digital video
format.  If he doesn't know, ask for a copy of
whatever pages describe how to download video, and
post that here.

Anne Zahra, Teacher/Graduate Student
Wewahitchka H.S., Wewahitchka Florida
annekzahra@yahoo.com

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