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GE-E840s Slim Line 8MP Digital Camera with 4X Optical Zoom (Silver)

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Retail Price: $179.99

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Photos are everywhere. We love taking them, sharing them, and viewing them. We spend hours browsing the internet with Web 2.0 apps looking at our friend’s photos. Today, everyone seems to want to chronicle their lives whenever they can. Enter slim digital cameras.

If you haven’t taken a look at today’s cameras recently, then you haven’t noticed how every part of a camera is getting smaller as technology is progressing. The parts that allow zoom mechanisms to function are also getting smaller. Memory is also getting smaller as it grows in capacity, and shrinks in price. This technology is making its way to the consumer in many ways, one of the most popular is the digital camera. Everyone is trying to grab onto every moment in their lives with their digital cameras, while they are working harder than ever as well. The large cameras of yesteryear are on the way out. Especially a heavy, large camera with the carrying bag it comes with, and extra batteries, USB cables, extra memory cards and power adapters.

Convenience is king, and consumers want cameras that they can fit just about anywhere. The way it used to be, miniaturizing meant a heftier price tag. Today’s slim digital cameras are starting to become more affordable than large ones because of their minimized features and size. One common issue with the first slim models to emerge, was the smaller your camera became, the smaller LCD screen that was equipped. Like all the other technology involved in cameras, from lenses to memory, liquid-crystal display technology has also seen a dramatic increase in performance with a decrease in cost. So now we have slim digital cameras with LCDs as large as 3.2″ — the same size, and in some cases larger, than their bulkier counterparts.

You may be surprised that the slim digital cameras that you see often have the same features that they had even when they were bigger and bulkier: digital and optical zoom, red-eye removal, face detection — and do it while weighing less and taking up less space. They also have more built-in hard drive space, to sizes up to 8 to 16 gigabytes in only a few years. Some memory cards are SO small that you have to nest them inside a larger adapter to fit into a desktop or laptop PC. And these smaller types of memory cards can still hold over 8 gigabytes.

The world is busy with work, and busy with taking pictures. As the world grows smaller and our moments become the content in social networking blogs, slim digital cameras with big LCD screens and tons of storage are the ultra convenience. You can put these cameras in your pocket and forget all about them, which is a far cry from having to lug around older cameras and pay them mind constantly. Think of it sort of like the transformation of cell phones over the past few years. These cameras are fully-functional and they can do anything that any other type of camera can do just as well. All with a cost that won’t need you to finance. It’s the “anywhere goes” digital camera!

Want a digital camera that you can just fit into your pocket? Chances are, a slim-model digital camera can fit the bill and they are just as affordable as other digital cameras these days.