[00:00:00]Smaller digital cameras... with bigger LCD screens.
[00:04:10]Bloomberg Boot Camp, a report on today's technology.
[00:07:12]If there's a trend among digital camera makers for the upcoming holiday season... it's to make cameras smaller... while increasing the size of the LCDs.
[00:15:66]Sony's DSC-T1 started the trend with its 2 and a half inch screen.
[00:20:84]At Sony's strongest rival, Canon, technical marketing director Chuck Westfall says among the new models are...
[00:27:44]PowerShot Digital Elph SD200 and SD300.
[00:31:14]These models will have 3 megapixel and 4 megapixel resolutions respectively, 3 times optical zoom lens, a 2 inch LCD monitor which is much bigger than we've had before.
[00:42:16]And they'll sell for 3 and 4 hundred dollars.
[00:45:00]The trend is also being followed by Casio, where product development director Scott Nelson says the new credit card sized Exilim Z55 is equipped with a 2 and a half inch screen.
[00:56:53]And beyond that... a new S series camera... features the first lens made of ceramics instead of glass...
[01:03:02]It's 3.2 megapixel, two inch screen on it... it's again, the size of a credit card but just over a half inch thick.
[01:10:19]And the tests on the lenses tell us the properties of the ceramics are as good as glass and it's tougher.
[01:17:44]So we can make a thinner lens and make the camera thinner on it.
[01:20:00]The price for the EXS 100... that slides easily into a shirt pocket... will be about 400 dollars.
[01:26:22]Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.

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