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Because it can capture full resolution images at such a high rate, when you half-press the button it starts continuously capturing them. Then when you do a full press it can record an image that was slightly in the past so you get the exact moment you wanted. Even better than 0 shutter delay, you get an effective -.1 second shutter delay to compensate for your reaction time.

Looks like the next couple of years are going to continue to be very cool for digital cameras. With 32GB+ SD cards coming out, high quality video, and more. The key thing about this Casio prototype is that it shows the industry moving past the mega-pixel race into things that really improve the pratical issues with photography.

Now if it can only capture decent low-light images… But I suspect that is too much to ask.

Casio has some demos out of a next generation camera that can shoot 60 frames per seconds at full 6 megapixels or 300 frames per second at normal high quality video. The demos look incredible. With 12x zoom I expect you will need a good tripod to have this work well even with the promised image stabilization. Still, it looks awesome.

That was fast. Apple already cut the iPhone 8gb price to $399. Early adopters are probably feeling a bit raw about paying $200 extra for being in just the first 2 months. But Apple also introduced the iPod Touch in 8GB and 16GB models which is just an iPhone without the phone bit (but, and this is key, including wifi and Safari). My goal is to just have 1 device I can use for whatever, but I’m stuck trying to decide between the phone or the everything-but-phone version. Either I’ll get the iPod now and switch to the next generation of the phone next year (and the old iPod can be used for Fen to watch videos, etc) or just go for the phone now, and deal with having less storage and less of a reason to upgrade next year.

In any case, it really does appear that Apple has hit another set of home runs. It would be great if the iPhone were unlocked, or didn’t use AT&T or had a memory expansion slot or… But it still is so much more compelling than the alternatives that it doesn’t really matter.

I forgot to add, one key for me is that both use flash storage so I can use them in the airplane at altitude.