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Sony DSC-U60 Cyber-Shot U A waterproof 2-megapixel sport cam that's perfect for any swimming hole. Who doesn't want his picture taken with the fishes? sonystyle.com...
Casio Exilim EX-Z4U At less than 1 in. thick, the Z4 is an engineering marvel: a 4-megapixel camera with a retracting 3x optical-zoom lens and a 2-in. LCD screen. It takes pretty pictures too. exilim.casio.com...
...have a few tricks the big dogs haven't yet learned. The QuickSend feature lets you tag pictures to be automatically sent over Logitech's own server, allowing anyone--including users with Web-based or proprietary e-mail systems like AOL, Yahoo or Hotmail--to send pics. This 2-megapixel point-and-shoot ($180 at logitech.com is also the first of its line to have a full-color LCD screen for previewing shots. And it doubles as a webcam, complete with microphone. Furthermore, it's one of the most kid-friendly cameras around: in addition to the big buttons...
Digital cameras have traditionally been judged by their resolution--the more megapixels, the better. Now some camera makers are saying it's not the number of pixels, it's the depth of the zoom. In April Olympus launched the 3.2-megapixel C740 ($499), the first sub-$500 model to sport a 10x optical zoom lens. Last week two more 10x zoom cameras--Fujifilm's 3.1-megapixel FinePix S5000 and Kodak's 4-megapixel EasyShare DX6490--hit the market for the same price. Most digital cameras have zoom lenses only up to 4x; the extra magnification is a real performance boost...
Philips' 1.3-megapixel camera (64 MB or 128 MB) weighs in at 1.2 oz. It may be light on options, but it's every bit the James Bond spy cam your camera phone wishes it could be. --By Wilson Rothman