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...saves only one-third of the color data it receives--either red, green or blue, but not all three at once. With the new Foveon X3 technology, however, three sensors are stacked on top of one another, so that each pixel absorbs the full color spectrum. Result: a 3.5-megapixel camera using Foveon technology will produce images as clear as today's 7 MP models. INVENTOR Richard Merrill, Foveon AVAILABILITY December 2002 TO LEARN MORE www.foveon.com...
...SONY DSC-U10 CYBER-SHOT U Older 1-megapixel cameras can be found for less, but nothing out there does as much for as little. This 1.3-megapixel camera comes with rechargeable batteries, movie mode and built-in photo effects. No optical zoom, but it's smaller than most cell phones. www.sonystyle.com...
...FUJIFILM FINEPIX S602 ZOOM It's cameras like this one that make digital photography so popular. This 3.1-megapixel favorite comes with a 6X-optical-zoom lens, two LCD monitors and room for two memory slots. You can shoot video with sound at 30 frames a second and add voice annotation to stills. www.fujifilm.com...
...great for taking snapshots and pix for the Web, but if you want some-thing more high powered, try Casio's Exilim EX-S2 ($300), available later this month. It's the size of a credit card and almost as thin, but it has digital zoom and 2-megapixel resolution. And if you're looking for the total Alex Trebek looks-and-brains package, splurge on Canon's PowerShot S230 ($499), also out in October. It's a full-featured, 3.2-megapixel camera with adjustable shutter speed and both optical and digital zoom. Plus, it's so easy...
...WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR] Lower-priced, 2-megapixel models produce fine prints, but if you like to crop or enlarge photos, go for 3 megapixels...