The Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997), the first digital camera of the Mavica series.
The Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997), the first digital camera of the Mavica series.
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Sony Introduces the Sony Mavica, the First Commercial Electronic Camera--Not Digital

8/1981 to 1997
The first Sony Mavica had the peculiar distinction of being the first still video camera.
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The first Sony Mavica had the peculiar distinction of being the first still video camera.

In August 1981 Sony announced the first commercial electronic camera, the Sony Mavica (Magnetic Video Camera). Not a digital camera, it was actually a video camera that took video freeze-frames.

Sony's first commercially marketed digital camera was the Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997).

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