No More Kyocera Cameras.

sort of a shame... but Kyocera is ditching it's camera division apparently.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0503/05030301kyocera.asp

i have a Kyocera SL300R... and talked quite a few other people into getting one as well. when it came on the market it was (in my opinion) one of the best deals around. you got a slimline camera... with optical zoom... decent enough a pixel count... SD media...640x480 video with audio... great battery life... all in a cool furturistic looking rotating body.



i ended up using far far far more often than i ever did my previous larger cameras... simply because i could carry it around easier. with the larger cameras i had to make an actual decision whether or not i thought lugging the camera and bag around was going to be worth any potential picture opportunities. with the Kyocera... i could just put it in my pocket and forget about it.

so it's kind of lame that i will now not be able to replace it with a fictional SL500R... which in my imagination would include a 5 megapixel pickup and a larger clearer (OLED maybe?) display. and maybe use something like miniSD.

stupid Kyocera. you're totally NOT the best thing ever. anymore. hmpft.

z.