The Sony Mavica MVC-FD90 digital camera combines a powerful 8x opticalzoom lens with a respectable 1.3-megapixel CCD. The camera also features an MPEGmovie mode, audio annotation for your images, and a manual focus ring. Thebuilt-in flash features red-eye reduction and night-synch modes. Built-in zoom,trim, and resize functions encourage manipulation of the images while they arestill in the camera. For maximum image resolution, the camera also includes aninterpolated 1.6-megapixel image setting. Users compose images by viewing the2.5-inch color LCD monitor on the back of the camera. This monitor also revealsthe remaining shooting time in minutes, a well as having indicators for flash,focus, and other functions.

Like most of the other cameras in the Mavica line, the MVC-FD90 uses floppydisks to store photos. At maximum image quality, five images fit on one floppy.At the other end of the spectrum is the e-mail setting, which captures 80 imagesat 320 x 240 resolution on a single disk. To address concerns about the limitednumber of photos one can store on a low-capacity floppy disk, Sony has devised ahigh-capacity solution: the camera will accept the MSAC-FD2M floppy adapter, adevice that looks like a floppy disk. Sony's Memory Stick (available incapacities up to 64 MB) slides into the adapter, and the adapter slides into thecamera's floppy drive, essentially giving you a 64 MB floppy disk.

The package includes a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, a battery charger, ashoulder belt, AV cable, and ArcSoft PhotoStudio software for Windows.