My blackberry pearl can be set for resolution up to 1280 x 1024 and a "Superfine"??? picture quality, whatever that latter one means. Looking at the pictures I get from it with adequate lighting, it is pretty darned good on my laptop, and prints fairly well pics too. The camera even has a zoom function, which is pretty good up to 12x I think. Again, the weak link is the flash. Anything beyond about 4 feet and the flash does nothing.

I like the fact that I can view the pics I take on the lcd screen and tell fairly well if the pic will turn out okay or not.

That blackberry pearl is a heckuva phone.

Film is that stuff I have to keep wiping off the lens of my digital camera(s).

The Nokia N73 has a 3.2 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. If you want to shoot DVD quality Video also then the Nokia N93 looks quite promising.

I have my camara phone and a pair of binoculars/digital camara that I carry.

The binocular camara has no memory card and loses the stored photo's if the battery dies.

All electronic camaras will be null & void in the event of an EMP occurance.

I EDC a very good camera in my cell phone and occassionally drop a small Nikon with a high pixel count in my backpack.

If an EMP occurs the loss of my digital camera will be the least of issues. No one but a few Pulitzer wannabees will be taking their film in for developing either.

Due to the nature of my work (reviewing construction sites) I carry my digital camera with me in my daypack. It's a Canon A-series 5 megapixel. Back when I bought it, it was about $450 Cdn but now you can get similar spec cameras for under $200. I also carry extra memory and batteries and I really should be carrying my telephoto and wide angle lenses but never got around to adding them to the pack.

I also have a VGA resolution camera in my cell phone for those critical times... ie catching a buddy with his pants down.

I've carried a camera built into my Palm/Treo for years now. I often shoot a quick snapshot rather than writing something down. (Prices, interesting books, license plates, phone numbers, hours of operation, etc.) I've taken a few good candid shots over the years but the camera is so poor and slow that I rarely capture what I'm trying to. For that I keep a Canon in my laptop bag.

I don't EDC a camera, but I very, very often have a camera nearby. I love my Nikon D70 DSLR and bag o' lenses, but it's definitely not pocketable.

As much as I like Nikon DSLR's, I've not been overly impressed with their P&S digicams. I've had a Canon PowerShot S100 2 MPx camera for 6 years and it's still going strong, despite being horribly obsolete. It also has that proprietary battery problem.

I recently bought my daughter and my brother's family Canon PowerShot A550's. Small, light, inexpensive, relatively rugged (a teenager hasn't destroyed it, yet), takes good pictures, and uses AA batteries. Worth looking at.

Kevin B.

Exactly the same story with my PDA. The big screen of PDA allows that. Otherwise it almost impossible to read on a tiny camera- or phone screen. But I do carry an old batteryless analog camera in my car and refreshing the film every 6 months.

My Samsung flip-phone has a camera. I've taken thousands of pictures with it. Unfortunately, they're all of the inside of my pants pocket.

Due to some braindamaged engineering design, when the flip cover is closed it locks the keypad (which seems silly since the closed cover COVERS the keypad). But it does not lock the side buttons. Which are used to take pictures and "dial the last number and put it on speakerphone". It's a crap-shoot whether you'll be walking down the hall and hear someone unexpectedly saying "Hello? Hello?" from your pants pocket, or get yet another picture of some pocket lint. Occassionally you'll hear the robotic voice telling you to "Say a command!", and you know the voice recognition side button must have gotten pressed. Then it's a REAL crap-shoot as to what it will do next, as it thinks it recognized some unknown instruction you commanded it with.

Yeah, I EDC a camera. I wish I didn't!

Yes, I do. Olympus 720SW, which I picked because it's shock resistant (withstands drops to 5 feet), waterproof (submersible to 10 feet), 7mp, and very pocketable. Has a big screen on the back of the camera, though I do miss an optical viewfinder.

Of course, like all small cameras it uses a proprietary Li-ON battery. Oh well, that's the price for all the features in a nice, small package!

-=[ Grant ]=-