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 Got a Sony Mavica digital camera for Christmas back in 2001. Digital cameras were still extremely uncommon at this time; they were too awful to use for real photography, and too expensive to buy for casual family pictures. I'm pretty sure it cost at least a few hundred dollars. But at the time, the Mavica was a marvel of function at that price, even without any real purpose. The specs of this bad boy: -1.3 megapixel quality. This allowed for pixelated, grainy 640x480 images of over 50kb in size! -No viewfinder. You stared at an ugly 2.5" screen and hoped for the best. The screen image lagged behind whatever you were actually pointing at, so taking photos of moving objects was a guessing game. -Terrible light sensors. If you turn the flash off, the image is dark and blurry. And you had to use the flash if the subject wasn't being illuminated by a minimum of a police searchlight. Since that wasn't likely, for every picture, even in broad daylight, the flash would explode like a supernova, leaving your image glowing, with glare reflecting off any surface that's even slightly smooth. -Floppy disk storage! This thing was a beast. You loaded a 3.5" floppy into it and got all that 1mb+ of storage to play with. Take a few seconds of video, even! -Lithium rechargeable battery. After powering the LCD screen, flash, photo, and storage, it was likely to run out of juice after a couple dozen photos. -Cool photo effects! Sepia! Black and White! Um... Blurry! Sepia! Good For: -People who are bad at photography. You could take a bunch of pictures and only print/keep the good ones. -People who want to take pictures of stuff that's really, really pointless but don't want to pay for normal film development. -People with nice printers and high quality photo paper. This wasn't me. Of course, even with nice printing abilities, the pictures would still be low-res as hell. -People who wanted to take embarassing/pornographic photos without the guy at Rite-Aid judging you. Bad For: -Almost everything else.
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