Batteries are only $20 on ebay from a US seller.
I was just looking at a very late model, the CD400 - 4mp, Zeiss 3x
zoom, 2.5" screen, writes to CD mini-disc. $90 BIN. That's actually a
pretty good piece of gear!
Shame they want $50 postage to Aus.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 02/08/2008, at 9:29 PM, Bob Docherty wrote:
> Andrew,
> I picked up a 2nd hand USB floppy drive from my favorite thrift
> store for
> about $10. I could now break out my old Mavica FD83, if I could
> find it. The
> blasted batteries are still over $50/US though. Fortunately I found a
> battery on sale a couple of years ago for $20 at the local camera shop
> clearance table. Don't know if it would hold a charge anymore
> though...
> Good luck with the Mavica. It amazed me how many floppies failed when
> trying to transfer the images.
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