Digital Home Thoughts: Casio Announces TRYX Camera - Errr...

Casio over the years has always tried to be innovative. Sometimes they do things like build solid compacts with good image quality, or try to impress like their high speed video modes. Then there are times like this...

This is essentially a mashup of a pocket camcorder, stills camera, a digital photo frame, with a flourish of a cameraphone thanks to a dinky LED light. It is a 12 megapixel shooter with an articulating 3" HVGA LCD screen (or should that be articulating camera) and a fixed... 21mm equivalent lens. Now, I like my ultra-wides and all, but a consumer cam with a fixed ultra-wide does not sound like a very well-recieved camera to me. The 1080p videos better crop a portion of the sensor out, because ultra-wide lenses do not give a pleasing effect when whipped around on video, which is what most people are going to do with a lightweight camera like this. I stopped short of naming this the ultimate upskirt camera, given the wide-angle lens and articulating setup...

The TRYX is expected to be available in April for about US$250.