New cameras do double duty
The $499 Casio Exilim Pro EX-P505 is a 5-megapixel digital still camera that can also take 640-pixel by 480-pixel, or TV-quality, video. Coming later this month, it also contains a function that lets high-resolution still pictures be extracted from video for printing.
Credit: Digital Photography Review
But convergence is inevitable and Sony just HATES it. Their Camcorder biz ($$$$) is going to transmogrify (word o' the day) into something less profitable.
The questions for these machines are how much memory does it hold? and how easy is it to transfer data?