Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000 (2000)
Here is Sony’s massive studio-like camera with buttons all over and a recordable CD disc.
Previous cameras in the Mavica line had floppy discs as their form of removable file storage, but by the end of the 1990s, the capacity of these discs was becoming too small. Alone among manufacturers, Sony adopted the CD-R, a mini CD of 8cm diameter and 156MB capacity. That required a built-in CD burner. Every time the shutter is pressed, the CD has to spin up to operating speed for the purpose of making the recording.
This camera was the first CD Mavica and the most exciting. There’s a 10x optical zoom, image stabilisation, auto/manual focus, pop-up flash, electronic viewfinder, white balance and a button for “one-push white balance”, programmable exposure settings, spot light meter and much more.
Back to the CD. The disc has to be "initialised" in the camera before photos can be burned to it. After the shoot, the disc has to be "finalised" in the camera before the photos can be read by a PC.
Sony persisted with the CD Mavicas until 2003, the end of the line.