Like the Kodak EasyShare DX4900, Samsung's Digimax 350SE is a chunky design, but with a lot more style. A blue or silver band and handgrip mark out its body and its controls are commendably easy-to-use. On ...

Ricoh's Caplio RR10 has an unusual vertical/horizontal design. About the size and shape of a hand-held dictation machine, you slide it down on one of its ends into a supplied dock, which you keep connected permanently ...

Kodak supplied both its DX4900 camera and the optional EasyShare USB dock into which it plugs. The camera alone is a similar price to the others in this group. The DX4900 has a chunky and rather ...

Even with the batteries in place, the FinePix 30i feels rather lightweight and plastic. Designed very much for the youth market, Fujifilm highlights the fact that it can also be used as an MP3 music player. ...

Canon's Ixus V2 is a true pocket digital camera. Its sleek, credit card-sized, all-metal case is under 30mm thick, making it very easy to take with you. The 2-Mpixel camera is a model of simple design, ...

No, it's not a digital pocket which can be installed on your latest pair of groovy slacks - go on, upgrade those jeans - but, unsurprisingly, a pocket digital camera. And unlike many "pocket" or "mini" ...

It's easy for digital camera manufacturers to quote the size of their CCD at you - 4 megapixels in this case - and leave it at that, but the resolution of the camera rarely tells the ...

Olympus has never been one to sell its wares through flashy design. The Camedia C-220 Zoom, which we've been playing with for a couple of months, looks much like the other digital cameras in its range, ...

One of the best-selling digital cameras of the past year was Canon's PowerShot G1, a popular camera with professionals and amateurs alike. Now Canon has made some significant enhancements, not least a 4 megapixel CCD, to ...

Top of Casio's current range of digital cameras, the QV-4000 features a 4.13-million pixel Sony CCD imager, a Canon lens and highly usable interface with an excellent set of features. All this comes with a reasonable ...

There are several new dual-purpose digital cameras on the market, designed to offer simple, point-and-shoot style digital stills and to also be used as WebCams when tethered to a PC. One such camera is the StyleCam ...

Digital cameras have the potential to get really small. The only part which takes up any real room is the lens mechanism, but Kyocera, which bought Yashica some years back, has even condensed that down in ...

We've tried hard to think of a sensible, non-covert and non-sordid use for this little gadget, but we've failed. It's a spy camera, pure and simple. So if you want to keep an eye on people, ...

The Olympus Camedia C-4040Z is the latest in a series of compact digital cameras to share the same basic chassis, starting with the 2-megapixel C-2000 launched back in 1999. The C-4040Z is a 4-megapixel update of ...

This high-end Olympus digital camera uses a different design to the C-200. Styled much like a conventional SLR (and it is an SLR camera), it uses the image captured on the 2.1Mpixel CCD directly in an ...

Olympus's Camedia C-200 Zoom follows the lines of previous Olympus digital cameras. It's a bit wider and lower than most, but is still comfortable to hold. The controls are easy to use, as there are surprisingly ...

HP has developed two cameras in collaboration with Pentax - Pentax produced the optics and HP provided the digital camera intelligence and PC connection. The PhotoSmart 618 is the cheaper of the two and looks much ...

Alone among the cameras reviewed here, the Fujifilm has an all-metal case, and one designed by FA Porsche, no less. Adhering to Fujifilm's favoured vertical design, the camera takes a bit of getting used to, but ...

This 2.1Mpixel camera looks very much like a typical compact 35mm. A 3x optical zoom lens telescopes out of the front face when you press an indented power button on the back and the image is ...

Some people are put off by ordinary photography because it's too complicated. Add the word 'digital' and this point of view is made even more acute. Kodak's DX3500 digital camera is designed to simplify picture taking ...