Analog electronic cameras
Analog electronic cameras
In 1981, the Sony Mavica was the first handheld camera which used film. It used analog signals. There were other Sony-made cameras which were also named Mavica but this lone camera was different because the others were already digital. Being such, the images that it recorded were done so using continuous values. Moreover, this camera was still unable to digitize these pixel signals into discrete values. As the other cameras of different generation used cassette tapes as storage, this camera used video floppy disks with 2 x 2 inch dimensions. Thus, the camera was created much like a video camera. But because of the primitive technology then used, it only recorded videos in single frames. The produced image was of the same quality with that of the televisions used before.
