Sony Camera will even tell you when to take the picture!

For a long time I've joked that that camera technology has gotten so sophisticated that it will do eveything but tell you when to take the picture. That boundary has been crossed.Meet the Sony Cybershot DSC T70!

THe T70 has a facial recognition mode that only allows the camera to fire when you subject is smiling. Here's a video demonstration from Yahoo. It also features a 3 inch touch screen display, a Carl Zeiss lens, and 8.1 megapixels of resolution.

12 Megapixels for Less Than $500

I saw the fantastic new Canon G9 shown to me by one of the attendees at yesterday's Cleveland Photographic Society meeting. The camera combines the portability and form factor of a point and shoot with the features and resolution that one would expect from a digital SLR (including raw image capture). The graphic above is from this review from dpreview.com. The display is large and the animated display reminded me of graphics in Apple products. Best of all, you can get it for under $500 (per Amazon.com) at this time. Here is a Youtube video in German but you get to see the display and features.

Update: Here is a video in English from Cameralabs.com that is more detailed than the German one above.