Sony MVC-CD250, MVC-CD400 Introduction

Introduction

This digital still camera is capable of recording still images and movies onto 8 cm CD-R/CD-RW discs.

Capture images with your computer

You can easily copy images onto your computer through a disc drive or the USB cable, and view and modify images on your computer using application software. When using a disc drive to view images on your computer, finalization is required (page 44).

Flow chart for disc operations

Start	: CD-R
	: CD-RW
	[ ] : Required time
	A new disc

Initialize
(page 21)	Recording is complete.
Preparation for recording
on a disc.	View on the camera
	(page 35)

Disc preparation for recording is complete.

The disc status is pre-finalization.

Blank disc

Record
Finalize		View on a computer
		(page 48)
[About 1 min]
(page 44)
Preparation for viewing
recorded images on a		View through
computer.
		the USB cable
		(pages 51, 61)
Unfinalize
[About 1 min]
(page 46)
About 13 MB disc space
is restored.		View through a
		disc drive
Format		(pages 48, 61)
[About 7 min]	Disc preparation for
(page 42)
	viewing recorded images
The disc space is fully	through a disc drive is
available.	complete.

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