Posts in Digital Cameras

Sony DSC-M1 Movie & Still Camera

Juniper Foo | Sep 14, 2004

Hats off to the style-meisters for once again delighting us with a form that'll have you guessing it's anything but a Cyber-shot. The DSC-M1 could easily be mistaken for a chunkier cousin of Sony Ericsson's K500 camera-phone, until you crack open its body to reveal two sections attached by a 90-degree swivel. Half of that splits into an inverted L shape with a 2.5-inch LCD that can rotate 270 degrees. The other half pulls double duty as a 5.1-megapixel camera and MPEG-4 mini camcorder. Sony's gone even further with this transformer offering, doing a Vulcan meld of the still and video elements so every still snap captures several seconds of video before and after. Since it's not clear if this feature can be disabled, our advice: Start saving for that expensive Memory Stick you're going to need.

Click here for: Idea of size | front view | back view | closed | with cradle

Price: US$600
Availability: From December
Device: Digital camera-mini camcorder hybrid
Basic specs: 5.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom, Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, USB cradle, max. recording of 27 minutes on VGA resolution, 30fps with stereo sound on optional 512MB Memory Stick PRO Duo, or up to 54 minutes with optional 1GB card

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Olympus Mju(µ)-mini

Juniper Foo | Sep 06, 2004

What is it about our continuing fascination with little things? We ooh'd over the card-sized Casio Exilims. Now we're ahh-ing over Olympus' shape-defying, Tom Thumbish offering--the Mju(µ) mini DIGITAL. While this is a stunning exercise in miniaturization, there's nothing minimalist about this Mju. Melding its signature weather-proof metal body with high-tech features, you get a 4-megapixel shooter that also packs a 2x optical zoom and 1.8-inch LCD display. And since metallic colors are now uber chic, this Mju Mini offers a Technicolor palette of silver, pure white, black, crystal blue, velvet red and copper orange. So now you have matching colors to go with your iPod Mini.

Click here for: front/back view | colors

Price: Tentatively US$349
Availability: From October
Device: Digital camera
Basic specs: 4 megapixels, 2x optical zoom, 1.8-inch LCD, TruePic TURBO image processor, movie recording function with sound, 16MB xD-Picture Card supplied, Pictbridge, 95 x 56 x 28mm, 115g