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Vendors are showing a slew of extra-small, stylish digicams.
With digicams that fit into a tin of Altoids and models the size of hockey pucks, several camera makers are unveiling tiny cameras for the spy in all of us.
Minox, SiPix, Digital Dream, and Panasonic are offering miniature, almost keychain-like devices, while, for photographers looking for a little more versatility, Casio, Fujifilm, Minolta, and Pentax are offering extra-small cameras sporting 3-megapixel resolution and optical zoom capability. Honey, I Shrunk the Cameras
Compared to standard pocket-size cameras such as Canon's boxy Digital Elph series, the latest crop of miniature digital cameras look like toys. German camera maker Minox introduced two extremely small, atypically designed cameras.
The $279 Leica M3 is so small it resembles a Matchbox toy car. Weighing a mere 3.2 ounces, the M3 nestles nicely in the middle of your palm. Modeled after the Classic Leica M3 that was popular back in the fifties, this miniaturized, digital version is designed with a black and steel body, and even retains the levers and switches on the front of the camera.
The M3 features a 2.1-megapixel resolution, a fixed 48mm lens (35mm equivalent), and 32MB of internal memory. It comes with a tiny optical viewfinder for framing shots but lacks an LCD for viewing images; it does have an LCD image counter and mode selection. It also lacks a built-in...