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Wal-Mart Selling the Sony Mavica Floppy Disk Digital Camera for Just $269

 

Wal Mart Selling the Sony Mavica Floppy Disk Digital Camera for Just $269 mavica mini

Wal-Mart stores have so many items that occasionally an outdated one will remain on the shelves for years after they’re no longer relevant. Case in point: the Sony MVC-FD200 Mavica digital camera. The one above was recently found at a Wal-Mart in Illinois. The camera first hit the shelf back in 2002 and has remained there ever since. It featured a state-of-the-art 2-megapixel sensor and allowed photographers the convenience of storing digital photos on 1.44 MB floppy disks (remember those?). If you think Wal-Mart’s trying to rip you off, consider this: the lowest price for this camera on Amazon is nearly $1000.

(via The Consumerist via Gizmodo)

 
 
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  • Sigh

    Check ebay…

  • chris steel

    why are they so expensive? my old school/6th form had 5 of these (maybe a different brand) because they were cheap and no one would steal them

  • russianbox

    This is not mispriced, this is reasonably priced for hipsters.

    They’ll totally lap this up!

  • http://stephan-zielinski.com/ Stephan Zielinski

    I find writing to floppy results in a luminous feel one simply can’t get with files written to cold compact flash.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1174835197 Casey Myers

    2.0 MP Baby!

  • http://twitter.com/kwsanders Kerry Sanders

    I’ll offer $10.

  • Fluglehorn

     +1 !!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T4K6QA6QFOGGLPIZT2ERCBJIYQ Marschal Fazio

    About $20 although now that this story has hit the blogs I expect the price to skyrocket. LOL

  • perceptionalreality

    Ha! I’d never seen one in the box before. I love how the floppy disk is going in the wrong direction. :) 

    I have one of these. Works great. I tried to sell it on eBay a couple months ago with a starting bid of $9.99. Didn’t sell. I guess I should try Amazon. :) 

    To demonstrate that it worked I used it in my studio to do a self-portrait with the timer motor, with the flash compensation turned all the way down, and the flash deflected to trigger the studio lights without actually affecting the exposure. Took me 6 or 8 attempts to get the light levels right (no manual controls) and actually compose it with me entirely in the shot, but it worked. 

    Then I realized I have no way to get it into my computer. Smarter guy would have realized that before he started. Wish I was that guy… :-D 

  • http://rigu.co.uk/ Andrew Bowness

    I remember having total tech-lust for one of these, it seemed so much more convenient to be able to just pull out the floppy and put it straight into the PC instead of messing around with a cable that usually took about 10 minutes to find and then the USB connection wasn’t particularly reliable.

  • http://www.bobcooleyphoto.com/ bob cooley

    C’mon you nay-sayers!  After all it IS on sale! Marked down from the original $297.83 (??  who prices these things?) 

  • guest

    Wow, what a find. I still use our old FD71 (640×480) here at work. I don’t need high meg photos and it focuses at about 1 mm (or cm) so it is great for showing damaged parts. I do need a new battery.

  • Joakim

    Got two of thos at work even tho it’s the 1.3 MP (or something close to that) version. Sony did also make a CD version later on.

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  • newamericanclassic

    maybe I should make all the hipsters jelly and whip out my state-of-the-art 1 MP Kodak from the late 90′s.