Tag: DIGICAMS

Question: I need a new digital camera. But since money is tight these days, I can't spend much over $100. Is there a camera around that price that's worth any money at all? Our Advice: Yes. These days, most camera makers sell surprisingly capable point-and-shoots for just over $100. At that price, you won't get the latest and greatest photo technology. But you will get an inexpensive ...

Question: I'm planning a vacation with my wife and kids this summer, and I want one camera to cover it all. Something small enough to take around with us wherever we go, and most importantly, super durable and waterproof so we can take it to the beach without giving daddy a heart attack. Any suggestions? Hey reader: "Tough" cameras have definitely been the rage lately, with several of the ...

Few companies do tiny cameras better than Sony, which has made dozens of pocketable Cyber-shot models over the years. The company's latest pocket-worthy wonder is the Cyber-shot DSC-T2, a brightly colored eight-megapixel point-and-shoot camera that sports four-gigabytes of on-board Flash storage. This means that this thing is actually good-to-go for a gazillion pix right out of the box and may ...

Digital cameras just keep getting smaller -- so small, in fact, that a camera based on a newly-christened "worlds' smallest" 1.4-millimeter (1/18 of an inch) chip from TDC would be almost completely unnoticeable no matter where you put it. The camera could fit in a package the size of this square: The chip is ultra-low power, which means it requires only 3.3 volts of electricity. It is also ...