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Olympus's new AZ-1 compact digicam

Olympus's latest digicam, the compact Camedia AZ-1, hits Japanese shops this June. Standout feature aside from the compact size (94 x 21.9 x 67 mm) is a 2.5-inch, 210,000-pixel screen with a 160-degree viewing angle, and 3X better contrast than previous Olympus models. In short, they're pitching it as something of a portable photo viewer as well as a camera, a notion that's backed up by the ability to create 12 photo albums, each containing up to 100 shots, which can be viewed as slide shows with a variety of transition effects. The camera itself is a 3.24-megapixel unit with a 3X optical zoom that takes JPEGs up to 2,048 x 1,536 pixels in size, or QuickTime movies at up to 15 frames per second. Storage is via xD-Picture Cards.

[Via PC Watch (Japanese)]

[Read: Spec sheet and product pics at dpreview.com]