Sony MVC-CD500 Manual

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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 CD-ROM drive or the 
USB cable, and view and modify images on 
your computer using application software. 
When using a CD-ROM drive to view 
images on your computer, finalization is 
required (page 85).
Flow chart for disc operations
Start
A new disc
Disc preparation for 
recording is complete.
View on a computer 
(page 84)
View on the camera
(page 32)
View through 
the USB cable 
(pages 91, 97)
View through a 
CD-ROM drive 
(page 85)
(page 85)
Preparation for viewing 
recorded images on a 
computer.
(page 86)
About 13 MB disc space 
is restored.
The disc status is 
pre-finalization.
(page 39)
The disc space is fully 
available.
Blank disc
Disc preparation for 
viewing recorded images 
through a CD-ROM drive 
is complete.
Initialize
Finalize
Unfinalize
Format
Record
: CD-R
: CD-RW
Recording is complete.
Preparation for recording 
on a disc.