By Pat Durrette

Everyone loves photographs. Everyone takes them, everyone shares them, and every looks at them. And of course, we all visit social networking sites that show off our friend's pictures as well. Today, everyone seems to want to chronicle their lives whenever they can. This is where slim digital cameras come into the picture.

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. Every single piece of the cameras are in fact shrinking, which is not necessarily a bad thing. 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.

Photo-happy customers want something smaller that easily fits in a purse, or a pocket. The way it used to be, miniaturizing meant a heftier price tag. In modern times we are now seeing the prices are not much different for slim digital cameras than they are for larger models. 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. These days 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. Even with their tiny size these cards can store upwards of 8GB comfortably.

Everyone is taking pictures these days, and everyone is busy. 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. And these slim digital cameras aren't part of some kind of hybrid cell phone. They are fully-functional, high quality digital cameras with the same features as larger cameras. All with a cost that won't need you to finance. It's the "anywhere goes" digital camera!

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