Mavica is a discontinued brand of Sony cameras which use removable disks as the main recording medium. On August 25, 1981, Sony unveiled a prototype of the Sony Mavica as the world's first electronic still video camera.
Sony Mavica (1981), the first still video camera in history
Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997), the first digital camera of the Mavica series
Inside the Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 Digital camera from 1997
Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 x10 Lens Assembly. The 0.3M pixel sensor is on the right hand PCB. From 1997
Sony Group Corporation , formerly known as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. and Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社), commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group comprises entities such as Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Sony Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Financial Group, and others.
Headquarters in Minato, Tokyo
Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker in the late 1940s.
Advertising for Sony transistor radios (TR-6, TR-63 & TR-72), 1957
A Sony TR-730 transistor radio made in Japan, c. 1960