BenQ Rolls Out World’s Slimmest Digital Camera January 17, 2008

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With Apple determined to win the Size Zero notebook awards with the new MacBook Air, BenQ seems equally determined to put digital cameras on a crash diet.

Its new DSC X800 camera is just 10mm thin, which the company claims is the world’s skinniest. The company recently released another skinny snapper, the DSC X835, at 12.5mm.

The X800 is an 8MP camera with 3x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom. Alongside Normal and Macro modes, BenQ has added a Super Macro mode for shooting things at weenie distances ranging from 1-5cm. There’s anti-shake and automatic face detection functions along with 29 shooting modes for different environments. It takes SDHC cards up to 4GB and runs off a lithium-ion battery.

On top of this, the X800 can record MPEG-4 video at 30fps in 640 x 480 pixel resolution. It will even playback your MP3s and other MPEG-4 videos on its 3in LCD display and has a audio jack for the supplied earphones .

It’s due out in Q1 but there’s no price yet.-Martin Lynch

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