digicam

Have we found the world's smallest digicam?

The miniaturization of point-and-shoots sparked a frenzy among camera manufacturers a few years ago, with companies duking it out to see which one could dish out the smallest digicam. Well, I think we have a clear winner.

The Chobi Mini Digital Camera from Japan Trust Technologies measures just 1.7 inches by 1.1 inches by less than half an inch and weighs a featherlight half an ounce.

Despite its petite structure, this snapper boasts functions that put it almost on par with cameras from big brands. The Chobi point-and-shoot captures images at 2,048x1,536 pixels and records videos … Read more

570-megapixel camera scans sky for dark energy

According to Wired, this 570-megapixel camera is possibly the largest digicam ever built. But I wonder how it compares with the 1.4-gigapixel shooter conceived last year by the Institute for Astronomy in the University of Hawaii that we wrote about last year?

That aside, this gigantic beast of a snapper is rigged together by a team of particle physicists and astronomers at Fermilab. Its main purpose is to look deep into space for evidence of dark energy, which is supposedly causing the universe to expand at an increased speed.

This camera costs $35 million to build and, once completed, … Read more

Digicam clone from China: Too good to be true

From the same country that spawned countless of iPhone clones comes a camera that looks too good to be true. And apparently it is.

Chinese company Chinavasion is promoting its prosumer lookalike point-and-shoot, the ZKX-DC5010. While it looks suspiciously like Sony's H7 or Nikon's upcoming P80, the specifications tell another story.

It comes with an outdated 5-megapixel sensor, tiny 2.4-inch LCD display, fixed lens (with no indication on focal length) and 4x digital zoom. All these telltale signs point to one thing: Unless you are really hard up on cash and still want to take pictures, stay … Read more

Casio's amazing 60fps digicam

I checked out Casio's new $1,000 Exilim Pro EX-F1 that can shoot bursts of up to an amazing 60 frames per second. That's at it's full 6 megapixel resolution. You'll never miss little Johnny's first steps again.

They've done a really nice job with the interface. The bursts are shown as stacks of photos so you're not trying to scroll through 60 almost identical images when in thumbnail mode. Once looking at a burst, you can use the big thumbwheel on the back to job back and forth. It's great. It … Read more