A little discussion over the Logitech Pocket Digital I mentioned in my last entry...

Jer: The camera looks significantly large than credit-card size.
Mav (work): well, its hard to say... they don't have specs.
Jer: They have a pic in their banner. Also, the sensor is only 640x480
Mav (work): but i think west is sufficiently interested enough to get one... I mean, for $100 its probably worth it if it fits in your wallet at all
Jer: Did you look at the autobrite page?
Mav (work): no... url?
Jer: http://www.smalcamera.com/technology.html
Jer: I mean, the price is right, and it certainly *is* small. I just don't know if you'd ever want to look at pictures you took with it. Perhaps as pure documentation for purposes of later nostalgia...
Mav (work): is there something in particular I am supposed to be looking at or just reading the chip description?
Jer: The pictures with and without.
Mav (work): ah.... yeah.... I don't think I'd want it as a mainm camera... but just to have it for "better than nothing" moments
Mav (work): they have a version of the camera under products as well... but I think its less good than the logitech one
Mav (work): less memory at the very least
Jer: Now, that one is actually small.
Mav (work): yeah... i suspect the logitech will be about the same
Jer: We can but hope
Mav (work): slim and I were speculating though... and we agree that its not worth it if its more than about 4mm thick.... (roughly 3 credit cards... 4 tops)
Jer: the SMaL claims to be the world's smallest. The lack of a lens cap probably helps.
Mav (work): yeah
Jer: And 26 images is quite possibly enough.
Mav (work): eh... maybe... but if they are the same size, then 52 is better...
Jer: True. I'm quite sure the logitech is thicker, tho.
Mav (work): why?
Mav (work): I doubt it would be much thicker... I mean they're not stupid
Jer: Look at it, that lens cap sticks out as far again as the thickness of the camera.
Jer: It also doesn't claim Mac compatibility, whereas the SMaL one does.
Mav (work): yeah... that's another reason to let west buy one first.... I want to see if it just holds jpegs... or if it does something weird like barbie cams did
Jer: True. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,94623,00.asp says 1/2 inch. I was right, the Logitech is more than twice as thick as the SMaL.
Mav (work): but yeah, the picture on logitech's home page does make it seem thick
Mav (work): half an inch? geeze... thats's not much better than the one I already have....
Mav (work): quarter inch is even too much
Jer: Well, the SMaL is .2, slichtly less than 1/4
Jer: slightly, even