Mavica

dear visitor: this homepage is abandoned and no longer updated since january 99, nevertheless enjoy the page. if you like you can visit an even older page of mine, this one is from when i just had bought my first digital camera, the legendary sony mavica fd7! in august '97... or you can visit my new page

me and fd7

december 98 - announcement for returning visitors:
new pictures taken on a recent trip to peru can be found on my homepage:
new pics from peru (as usual explanations are in german!)

Welcome Mavica interested visitor. The original intent of this page was to let our friends know something about our adventures here in ecuador (and some weeks in the states too). The main language on this page is therefore german (I'm from switzerland, Paola from Ecuador; at the moment we live in Ecuador). If you d'like to see all the pictures follow this link to my homepage(in german). Here on this page I've inserted a few pictures with english description. All the pictures have been taken with an Mavica FD7 that I purchased more than a year ago. I like the camera, but I think some of the features that I read about the new FD71 would be nice to have (I'm a little bit mad about SONY that they hadn't included it in the FD7 already (instead of the useless picture effects):

lighter weigth
double speed floppy
instant image freeze
solar LCD
automatic flash (although I read somewhere that it isn't perfect either)
picture series!!!!
disk copy
progressive scan CCD (If someone has experience with both fd7 and fd71 please send me comments about how this increased picture quality compared to fd7 field mode? same difference as between fd7 field and frame mode or even better?)

What I like about the already built-in fd7 features are:

Zooooooooom!!!
Exposure programs
Manual under and over exposure
light sensitivy
battery life (a week in the jungle with one battery is possible!)
macro
features like index, protect etc, but I think thats basic for digital cams

The features I never use are standard quality and the picture effects.

Higher resolution would be nice to have too, but the vga resolution is ok for the web. And I even printed pictures letter-size (with epson stylus color 400), that are looking ok from about a meter distance. So I don't think to buy the FD71 but perhaps the new FD91 (XGA res. MPEG Video, 14x zoom).

Ok here are the pictures (I hardly edited them, most are size-reduced, and on some I've changed lightness and contrast (PaintShop Pro)):

Early morning mist on the Rio Cuyabeno (Amzon Jungle)	Caiman at night on the Rio Cuyabeno: no flash, only torchlight!!	Crater Lake Quilotoa (Ecuadorian Andes, panorama composed of three takes)
On the Rio Patate, taken from the riverboard far away by a Person who used the camera for the first time!!	At 5300meters at the chimborazo, with self-timer, camera in the snow	At the Tungurahua-Top (5016meters), very cold and mysty, here the LCD didn't work anymore, seems it was too cold, but was no problem to take the picture just pointing at the scene
Ingapirca Incaruins, with +1.5EV	Street-seller in Cuenca	Aaaalbatross
Paola & Michi at a waterfall	Tropical Flower	Trainriding in ecuador
Carriding in ecuador	US of A: Hersheypark	US of A: On the road