Digital Cameras – Mavicas are still excellent cameras
Folk who have worked in the additional needs field for a while, and are using digital photography, probably started using a Sony Mavica camera. Excellent cameras. The picture quality is still excellent. If you are lucky enough to have a model which can switch between floppy disc and memory stick (FD/MS) then you have a camera that has years of useful snapping ahead of it.
You’ll need to buy a Memory Stick like the one you’ll see here. It has to be MagicGate stick. I think these cameras take any size between 16 and 128 Mb Sticks. These are available still, but you are most likely to find one on ebay.
Even the older floppy disc models are worth hanging on to. Even if your new computers have no floppy drive, you can use a USB floppy drive. However, floppy disc drives will eventually fail – as will every other form of electronic storage device.
These cameras are still very good. They also have the Coomber factor. They are rugged but just too uncool to be stolen for personal use. It is actually easier to teach a young pupil to use one of these cameras than many of the smaller cameras schools buy these days.
