Kyocera Finecam SL300R - The Pulse 2 - digital camera - Brief Article

Japan, Inc., Nov, 2003

* The SL300R digital camera is, say the people at Kyocera, INCREDIBLY THIN! And at a svelte 15 mm, weighing a featherweight 125 g with dimensions of 100 x 15 x 62.5 mm, no one's going to be arguing with that. Boasting a swiveling lens like the ones in the popular Nikon Coolpix series, the SL300R has an image-processing chip dubbed "Rtune," which allows for up to 3.5 images to be recorded per second, a 3,170,000-pixel CCD knocking out images at a maximum resolution of 2,048 x 1,536 dots and video at a maximum of 640 x 480 dots, running at a not-too-jerky 15 frames per second; it also sports a 3x optical zoom. That's a lot of gadgety stuff in a very tiny package. The focal range on the camera's lens is equivalent to 38-115 mm on a 35-mm camera, and there's an optical viewfinder for more WYSIWYG capturing and an SD card slot to record the photos. Right now, the anorexic snapper comes in silver, light blue or red finishes, with later campaigns planned to release limited-edition colors (like pink).

More info: www.kyocera.co.jp/news/ 2003/0901.html

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