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Rick Rizner
In a world of boxy digital cameras, Sony's 8-megapixel Cyber- shot DSC-F828 is truly unique. Like its predecessor, the 5- megapixel DSC-F717, this camera has the shape of an L, with a massive lens barrel making up one leg, and the chunky body the shorter leg. The two sections are joined by a hefty hinge that lets the lens rotate on a perpendicular axis to the body. The effect is much like cameras with fold-out LCD panels--you can turn the body so that the viewfinder can be seen from nearly any angle, for easier low-angle or overhead shots.
New to the DSC-F828 are a black body--now seemingly obligatory for advanced cameras--and Sony's four-color CCD. (The F828 is the first camera to use this chip, but cameras from other makers will follow soon.) According to Sony, the CCD should record more- accurate blues, blue-greens, and reds--in other words, color that's closer to what the human eye sees. It does this by adding an...