I am selling this Sony MVC-5000 digital camera. The camera is in used Condition! Batteries and memory cards are not included. The lens is not perfect clear and has a little dust and some fungus inside. The Battery chamers shows signs that there has been acid leakage too. I am selling the camera as/is untested. Original Photos.




If you win this auction you will get only the following items: 




1 Sony MVC-5000 camera S/N.: 50982?

1 Sony MVL-806H Zoom lens 8-48mm 1:1.8 S/N.: 10107

no accessories included




SONY ProMavica MVC-5000 - 1989.  The Sony ProMavica MVC-5000 (MAVICA = Magnetic Video Camera) still-video camera.  The MVC-5000 was the first to transmit almost instantaneous still color images over phone lines using Sony DIH2000 noted above and was the camera used by the CNN crew in China to transmit the Tienemen Square images. The ProMavica recorded images as magnetic impulses on a compact 2-inch still-video floppy disk.  The images were captured on the disk by using two CCD (charge-coupled device) chips.  One chip stored luminance information, and the other separately recorded the chrominance information.  This camera provided a 720,000-pixel image. The images could be stored on the floppy disk either in Frame or Field mode.  When Frame was selected, each picture was recorded on two tracks and up to 25 images could be recorded on each disk.  When Field was selected, each picture was recorded on only one track, allowing up to 50 images to be recorded.  When recorded in the Field mode, images were less detailed as compared to images recorded in the two-track Frame mode.  The MVC-5000 was considered to be the leader in image quality during its time.  The MVC-5000 recorded still video hi-band resolution at 500 TV lines versus the standard 360 lines of most other still video cameras of that period.