Ok, while I love my Minolta 7i it's just to huge to lug around everywhere I go, and I've missed some great stuff due to its size. I want a tiny compact camera that takes great pics and that sits in my pocket without my knowledge. I'm looking at the following:

Nikon S1
Minolta X60
Canon SD400

I think these are the heavy-weights. The Canon looks to be the priciest and I'm not sure it's worth it. The S1 is brand spanking new with great features. The Minolta is also new and seems to be a great balance of price/performance. Minolta hasn't let me down yet, so they are automatically in the running.

Every other thread I searched for involved huge cameras... anybody go tiny?

 

Gotta Sony Cyber-shot U. About the size of a half a pack of smokes. 2.0 Mpx, simple and easy to use. Hangs around my neck on vacation. Hope that helps. R81

 

FWIW, my mother-in-law has the Canon and she loves it. It is small and thin. She uses it all the time and seems to greatly prefer it to the larger cameras she has had in the past.

 

I should mention it's gotta be a 5MP camera... I'm thinking I can't go wrong with any of the three listed.. just curious if anyone has one and what they think of it.

 

Have you ruled out the Olympus Stylus line? I've always been happy with my Olympus digicams...or are they too big?

 

http://www.imaging-resource.com/

this website is pretty good for comparing cameras head to head. It even has an image compare tool so you can see the same pictures taken by many different cameras to compare.

I have the Cannon powershot A95 wich works very well. Bought it for close up detail pics. I think it's bigger than what you're looking for though.

 

Olympus is out - too big (well, compared to the three mentioned). But your right, an otherwise fine product.

Imaging-resource doesn't have a review on the x60, pretty much nobody does. I think I've eliminated the Canon... a little thicker than the others and I'm not a fan of the protruding lens.

I got to Best Buy to check out the S1... got some sample shots, it's pretty bad ****. I just wish someone had the X60 in stock... I'd LOVE to see them side by side. Gonna have to make a bunch of calls tomorrow hunting them down.

For reference, the S1 was a smidge smaller than a deck of cards... and weighted less. Unreal.

 

I have the Casio Exilim Z55 5.5MP, 3X optical, 4X digital, 2.5 screen. I love it & would recommend it in a heartbeat to anyone. Only slightly larger than a credit card & about .8 inches at it's widest. If you buy it from Best Buy, you geta free 128MB SD card. I paid $315. Casio makes one even smaller I don't think it has as many features so I feel the slightly larger size is worth it. The 2.5" screen kicks as$.

http://www.exilim.casio.com/index.cf...2-EA3AF30CF6A4

KC-10 FE out...

 

Not like anyone cares, but I ended up with the Minolta. After a few scarey reviews of the Nikon and the distaste for the canon's protruding lenses I got the X60. Man this thing is bad *ss. Fast, solid image quality & ultra tiny! There is noticable noise on some indoor low-light shots, but that's still a property of these tiny cams. Here are a couple shots I took while at work today (just got the camera 6 hours ago so I don't have much to shoot). I cropped the flower & resized the other one. Still shows some pretty good detail though. You 800x600 folks can bite me.

 

1101x1042??? What kind of size is that? If you had it printed you would loose exessive portions off the top and bottom of the pic plus I thought you wanted 5MP. That only comes to 1.1 effective megapixels.

It did do a good job with the macro though....

 

What part of "I cropped the flower" didn't you get?

 

Ahh ussaly when a photographer crops a photo especially for a demonstration of camer capabilites then they maintian proportion. So you have me thrown off.

Of coarse throwing me off really is not that hard to do....

 

Hey, I was only 59 pixels off from a nice sqaure. Not bad for eyeballin' it and using laptop mouse!

 

Been there done that with laptop and touch pad... It stinks... Was you using PS?

 

Nah, some other lightweight program... an old, old version of LVIEW Pro. So old it only lets you save 8-charecter file names It works like a champ and is the fastest loading image program I know of.