Sony ProMavica MVC-5000

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Pro Mavica MVC-5000 image by Steve Green (Image rights)

One of the most elaborate of Sony's early still-video cameras, the ProMavica MVC-5000 wrings the best possible resolution out of the technology (single television frames of analog scan lines) through the use of two sensor chips. The intended market was certainly professional users such as journalists on tight deadlines, who could transmit images over telephone lines.

The standard MCL-913T lens is a startling 13x zoom, in an interchangeable mount which could also accept a Nikon lens adapter (with a severe crop factor). Image storage is on the (by then standardized) Hi-Band enhancement to VF (video floppy) media—miniature magnetic disks a bit over 2" square. The disks enforce a limit of 50 images in interlaced format or 25 in the superior non-interlaced "frame" mode, numbers which drop further when using the voice annotation option.

Links

• ProMavica MVC-5000 profiled at Digital Camera Museum (English) Digitalkameramuseum.de
• Another profile including a user manual scanned by Ross Alford at Jarle Aasland's Nikonweb.com