I am ready to buy a new camera and have two big questions, each with a lot of sub points.

1. Do I go with something like a Kodak 260 (price is not a big problem) or are the digital camcorder/cameras getting to where they are a reasonable alternative? I am using a 640x480 camera that is not quite the ticket. I worry that the Kodak is too big, that all these cameras burn too much battery life to be useful (I could always scan my regular camera pictures), and that something like the Toshiba PDR M1 is all I really need.

2. Is the IBM super small disk (about 340 Meg and the size of a quarter) going to change the world and make flash and smart storage a thing of the past? What is coming down the way in camera technologies and storage that might make me want to wait a few months?

Hope you can help me out here. The uses I require are for normal e-pictures as well as I want to capture my golf swing from time to time to measure changes and evolution to the Tiger that lives inside this old physicist.

-- Charles Ivey (charles.ivey@tobin.com), October 26, 1998