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Argus DC-2300 Photo Phazer
You probably don't want your kids playing with your $800 digital camera. Well, the Photo Phazer looks cool, it's easy to use, and the price is painless. Take digital stills or shoot 60 seconds of video. Still resolution is just 640-by-480, but that's fine for display on a PC screen or Web site.
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BenQ 300mini
The BenQ 300mini is a cute, colorful camera with some interesting featuresds from 1/6 to a remarkable 1/100,000 of a second. As a Webcam, the 300mini can display and record up to 30 fps at full VGA resolution. The control panel is tiny, but instead of showing barely visible icons, the camera displays easy-to-understand two-letter abbreviations (St for self-timer, Ct for continuous mode, and so on).
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Kodak mc3
The Kodak mc3 is a good starting point. Combining a digital camera, video camera, and music player into one handy unit, the device is an interesting fusion of technologies, but poorly executed and overpriced.. Kodak offers its jack-of-all-media without a memory card for $200 (street), but even the $230 version with its measly 16MB CompactFlash (CF) card has too little storage to be useful. Pump up memory to 64MB and the mc3 will run you $300. The company also offers 32MB and 96MB bundles. The compact device measures 2.6 by 4.1 inches and weighs a mere 5.5 ounces (without its batteries).
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Minolta DiMage X
The DiMage X is larger and thicker than the Casio Exilim (but still small and light enough to fit in your shirt pocket), but it offers twice the pixels, a 3X zoom lens, and better picture quality for about the same price. The secret to the DiMage X's thin profile is that the lens and image sensor are actually mounted sideways inside the camera; they peek out at the world through a mirror. This arrangement makes for a very slender camera, but it also introduces additional components into the optical path. As a result, pictures from the DiMage X weren't quite as sharp as the other 2-megapixel cameras we tested. We also noticed a slight darkening on the corners of images, especially at wide-angle setting.
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Nikon Coolpix 2500
The Nikon Coolpix 2500 practically screams "party!" color and unusual shape are certain to attract attention, but under the metal skin is a capable camera with surprising flexibility. Its excellent value and feature-packed frame earned our Editors' Choice nod. Like many other Coolpix models, the 2500 has a swiveling lens mechanism. But the 2500 is unique in that its swivel lens hides neatly inside the camera's frame when not in use, where it is protected from dust, bumps, and fingerprints. This clever design twist let Nikon's engineers pack a 3X (35-mm lens equivalent is 37- to lll-mm) zoom lens into the 2500's thin body. The extra space also makes room for an extended focusing mechanism that lets you focus on objects as close as 1.6 inches from the camera.
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Nikon Coolpix 3100
The Coolpix 3100's silver body is plastic, not metal, a rounded battery compartment makes the camera easy to grip and operate one-handed. Most of the buttons on the back, as well as the mode dial, can be quickly accessed, although not all are easily identifiable. The viewfinder is bright and very readable but slow to turn on, and it dims when you press the shutter halfway. The memory card door is flimsy, and the compartment on the bottom has no safety catch to keep the batteries from accidentally falling out
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Polaroid PhotoMAX Fun! 620
The Polaroid PhotoMAX Fun! 620 ($60 street) digital camera is a no-frills, plastic point-and-shoot camera that could be mistaken for a toy. It has no flash, no macro capability
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SiPix StyleCam
The ultra-slim SiPix StyleCam ($65 street) is one of the smallest digital cameras on the market at 2.3 by 3.4 by 1.0-inches (HWD). And with only one control button to worry about, it may also be one of the easiest to use. The trade-off? Features, beyond a macro switch for close-ups, are limited. The camera has no LCD viewfinder and there's no flash, but the StyleCam's quick lens still captures most low-light images. 8MB of built-in memory records up to 65 VGA images or 180 Web (320 by 240 pixel) images.
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SiPix StyleCam Blink
This camera has a size of a soda cracker (2.16 by 2.16 by 0.50 inches), the SiPix StyleCam Blink has 8MB of internal memory that can record up to 100 VGA (640-by-480) or 400 CIF (320-by-240) images. Powered by one triple-A battery, the StyleCam Blink is so named because when shooting photos in CIF resolution, it can capture frames almost as fast as you can press the shutter. With software, those images can be streamed together into an AVI file.
At full 640-by-480 resolution, each shot takes a bit longer to recordon, uses a loud beep when the camera is ready to shoot, and doubles as a Webcam. The StyleCam Blink ships with an impressive software bundle: ArcSoft's PhotoFantasy, PhotoImpression, PhotoMontage and VideoImpression, plus Inetcam's iVista and SiPix AVI Maker. The package also includes a USB cable, a swivel cradle that can clip onto a bookshelf or ledge, a quick-release neck strap and wrist strap, and a nickel-plated swivel clip for attaching the StyleCam Blink to your key chain or belt loop.
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Veo Photo Traveler for Pocket PC - PDA
The Veo Photo Traveler can be used with Palm OS. The Photo Traveler is plug-and-play and comes with a hard plastic case (with keychain hook) and Palm and PC applications that allow quick capture and sharing of 24-bit, 640-by-480 color digital photos.
The Veo Photo Traveler for Palm OS application has a foolproof icon-based interface that includes a self-timer and settings for image quality, resolution, and exposure. Image quality with the Photo Traveler is good enough for quick "reminder" images that you want to save or e-mail—as long as you shoot in bright outdoor conditions. With no flash, our indoor shots were dark and muddy
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