Sony Mavica - Recent Questions, Troubleshooting & Support

I got solution for this problem.

On your camer on the top go to Set Up.
- scroll down to Disc Tool 1,
- scroll down to Format,
- click to the right and OK.
It should take care of it self for couple of minutes.

P.S I did lost all of the pictures that were on CD.

I hope that I helped some of you. Good Luck!

This is a well known phenomenon known technically as being 'out of focus'.

close the session on the cd with cd burning software on a PC. you'll be able to recover pictures that way.

It sounds as if the eject mechanism didn't quite do it's job last time it was used. It could be stuck half way between in and out. Try closing the camera and with a fully charged battery keep pushing the eject button and see if it clears the problem. You can imagine that after all those years dust and gunk has built up inside. It's just a bloody shame they can't build cameras today to last that long. At the worst all you'd have to do is pull the back off and have a good look at the drive mechanism. Or pick one up for $10 on Ebay and swap the drives over.

The manual on page 108 says: So or your disk is dirty, or is is damaged. The manual is still online: https://docs.sony.com/release/MVCCD250.pdf

Press the OPEN (flash) button. This button is on the side of the camera just below the flash. The flash mode button (lightning icon) is at the lower left on the rear of the camera. This only changes settings when the flash is up. This cycles through Auto, red-eye reduction, forced flash and no flash. The mode shows in the finder or the LCD screen. AUTO mode does not show.

I'm looking at our FD90 as I'm typing - it should be very similar to your FD75. Use the menu button to move the cursor left on the bottom of the display until "EFFECT" is highlighted. push the center of the menu button to select EFFECT & then push up to select DATE / TIME.push the button right to highlight "OFF" then push up to highlight DAY / TIME. push in the center to select and keep the day and time "effect" in your pictures.

Corrupt disk.

This camera stores pictures to a CD. Finalize it and put it into your CD/DVD drive of the computer.

It is very hard to find the repair manual. Have you got it ? I repaired my old FD-75 just by open it and disassembly the shutter button swith, cleaned and re-assembled. It works after more than a year without use.

dont give up - i am expecting a call from my daughter was the first to experirnce the format problem, she fixed it but i cant seem to get it formatted myself. i will let you know what the problems are asap