The best in the series of Mavicas (Sony Mavica MVC-FD85)

Member Name: forzaf1

Product:	Sony Mavica MVC-FD85
Date:	03/11/01 (81 review reads)
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Advantages: high resolutions

Disadvantages: high price, long charging times

Although the price tag may put alot of people off, this digital camera is def. worth the money.

I guess it depends what you wish to use it for, if its taking pictures for auctions then I would't pick this camera because you don't need a 500 pound camera for that. The cheapest Mavica will do the job just fine for that.

So why would you want to spend that kind of money? What do you get? Although all the Mavicas look the same from the outside, inside they all perform very much in different ways. The higher you go up the range the better quality picture and higher resolution you get. This one max is 1280x780 and the min. is 680x480. The lower you go the more you get on disc..set it to the smallest resolution you get about 10 per disk. The highest...you get about 3-4. The battery has about 80mins of juice ad everytime you take a picture it takes about 5-7 mins of juice out of it so its recommedend that if you are going somewhere for a while then buy a spare one. The LCD screen on the back is big enough and bright although abit to bright as you sometimes think you have a bright picture but when loaded on the PC it can be abit dark.

You dont need a manual as its that easy to use. I was able to get mine working very easily.

The annoying bit is the charge time for this. From flat to fully charged it takes just under 2 hours!!! Another reason to get another battery!

For the price they ask, it is alot but because its so easy to use and to view your pictures then its worth paying for.

I recommend getting a used one though which you can pick up quite cheap on auctions.

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