Best Mini Digital Camera (Better even than the Fabled L'espion!) (Sipix Stylecam Blink)

Name: Meshek

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Product:	Sipix Stylecam Blink
Date:	20/06/02 (2021 review reads)
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Advantages: Tiny, High Quality Pictures, Good View Finder

Disadvantages: Ever so slightly bigger than the L'espion

For those of you that do not know there has been a craze for mini digital cameras over the last few months that was all started by the L'espion digital camera.

This camera was miniture at 58mm x 40mm x 15mm and weighing 40g. Not only that but it only cost £40. However this camera had one major problem and that was that the quality of this camera had a lot to be desired at only 352 x 288 and these pictures were quite grainy. However this was not enough to stop it becoming the fastest selling product in almost every online gadget shop I could think of.

Other companies were not however content to allow the L'espion to steal the show and out of this situation the Blink was created. Now do not get me wrong the L'espion was great fun but every it was the blink was much more so.

Firstly for the picture quality. The resolution is nearly 4 times as high at 640x480 and the picture is crystal clear as opposed to grainy. At this resolution it can take 100 pictures compared to the 20 of the L'espion which is at a lower resolution. The number of pictures is slightly puzzling since the Blink only has 4 times the memory at 8mb and yet is obviously holding more picture data. I think this is because the pictures on the Blink are properly compressed. Either way the picture quality of the blink is far superior and if you do not beleive me just check out the pictures people have sent in to firebox.com which can viewed while looking at the products.

Another element which makes this camera superior which might not seem like much but is, is the viewfinder. Onthe blink it is built in and accurately shows what you are taking a picture of. On the L'espion however it is just floating above the camera and depending on where one positions ones head in relation to the camera determins what picture you see through it and hence it rarely if ever actually corisponds with the actual pictures.

One slight problem is that it is slightly b
igger than the L'espion at 15mm x 50mm x 50mm compared to the L'espion at 58mm x 40mm x 15mm which is not really much different anyway.

My main point though is however is that the L'espion was good just has been suppased by the blink and at £35 from ebuyer.com for a working quite high quality digital camera it is a must buy.

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