This Does Not Compute | CD Mavica: Sony's Weird CD Burning Digital Cameras! @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Sony's Mavica line of digital cameras from the late 90s were compelling due to their use of normal floppy disks instead of expensive flash media. But when photo sizes became too large for floppies, the company switched to another commodity media instead...with interesting results.

Sources:
MVC-CD1000 photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_Mavica_MVC-CD1000_CP%2B_2011.jpg
MVC-CD200 photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_Mavica_MVC-CD200_Flash.jpg
"The Future of Digicam Tech," HWM, April 2004.
"Direct-to-DVD Gets Better," PC Magazine, August 23, 2005.
Sony a100 photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SonyDSLRAlpha100_VL.jpg
Sony a9 photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_Alpha_A9.jpg

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