NASA racer

Requirements...small, lightweight but decent quality pics and preferably a good name brand.

TIA!

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P. Bauer

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/14497/dscn0127.jpg"></center><p>Here is an example of a pic I took.

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shep

Sony DSC-P1...$$$, but performance/size ratio can't be beat

audiophilitis

check http://www.pricewatch.com/ for best prices.

BluLytNin

....the 4800 is out now, so the price has come down a bit from when I bought mine a few months ago.

S4Alex

Canon 300 Elph. Small. Can take it everwhere. Good Quality. Movies. Compact Flash.

jrg

it really depends on what features you need to have. if you simply want good picture quality and don't need professional resolution and features, i would highly recommend the elph (i think you can get it for ~$400 now). it is 2.1 megapixel.

the max resolution it can take is 1600x1200, which is actually pretty darn good. and the camera is the smallest one on the market (as far as i know).

battery life is great if you do not use the lcd display to center your images (i just use the lens). if you use the lcd (ie have it on continuously), battery life is limited to a few hours.

later tonight, i'll post an image of my s4 up in the white mountains that was taken with the elph.

james, who is currently playing with my new toy: the kyocera smartphone!

Gop-Dogg

Is the kyocera smartphone the one w/ the PDA built in?

esses

a lot of cameras have average DSP's , so you press the button and it takes a split second (sometimes a full second if you have it on autofocus and all that jazz) to actually record the picture.

This can make taking natural "instant" pictures really difficult!

Then there's the time it takes to actually write the picture to memory once you've taken it...

This can make it hard (if not almost impossible) to take quick back to back pics (to try and fix for when you overcompensate for above!)

The best one i've seen in this area is an olympus (i can't remember for the life of me the number), but it's got 32 meg of cache that it uses to reduce the time lags to being almost instant) But the camera was around $800-$900.

esfor

Sony DSC-S70, compact, great lens (for a digital...), 3.3 megapixel, ...