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.