The Sony Mavica MVC-FD88
Digital Camera
Last updated: 11/4/99
 PICTURES. Hot
dog! After playing with both of these cameras for over a week, I finally
got what I think looks like a professional picture Here's one of a
plant in the show room of my humble shop. This picture was shot at "Fine
Resolution" and a size setting of 1024 x 768 pixels. I cropped
the picture to make it smaller. Then I had to drastically resample
it to get it on this page. Click on the picture to see a cropped version
of the original (it is quite large at almost 1/3 MByte). Also, I did
not enhance the picture as I normally would for the Digest.
 Here's
a picture from an article I'm working on for the Digest. The camera
was set at "Fine Resolution" and 1024 X 768. The picture
was then cropped, resampled, brightened, and sharpened for the web with Corel
PhotoPaint. I could hardly see any difference in the results, if any
at all, between the FD88 and FD83 when doing this kind of work.
These pictures were shot by a novice photographer
(me) and do not do the camera complete justice. All in all I took 17
floppies worth of pictures with this camera. Some of my shots, especially
those taken at 1280 X 960, were comparable to Sony's.
BOTTOM LINE. Although this camera
can take pictures approaching those produced by a 35 mm film camera and has
some notable enhancements as compared to the FD83, such as it's greater zoom
capability, it is certainly more camera than I need (or can afford) for technical
articles for the web and occasional family and travel pictures. The
biggest problem I had with the camera (and with the FD83) was adjusting the
brightness level. Pictures often came-out with yellow or green whites
(the auto exposure and white balance simply did not work well) . One
would think that for a thousand dollars Sony would make a camera with WYSIWYG,
or What You See (on the LCD) Is What You Get when you see it on your computer. More
often than not, that was not the case.
Larry
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