MY EARLIER POST on sending digital cameras to Iraq impressed some people with just how cheap this camera has gotten, at under $100. Yep. And I’ve got one — it’s taken most of the pictures you see here, more than the Toshiba and the Nikon combined, because it fits in my pocket — and I paid something like $249 for it about 18 months ago.

As somebody wrote a while back, the real news in digital cameras isn’t what you can get at the top end — it’s how much you can get at the bottom end.