Digital snapshot cameras these days are cheap and trustworthy. What’s left to improve? The frontline has been moved from megapixels and body size to night-time photography and the holy grail of digital photography: getting that elusive “film” quality.

The NY Times gushes for the nighttime supremacy of Sony’s XD1 in this article, in which their XD1 is pitted against the Canon SD880 (see result above).

Above: The Digital Harineuzumi. It has a digital display, but only for viewing images. To take a picture you look through the old fashioned viewfinder. I like.

Toy camera company Superheadz has released its first digital camera (the “Digital Harinezumi”) that, instead of going for clarity and technical efficiency, aims to mimic the picture quality of the light-leaky hipster-toted Lomo camera. Lomos offer warm, fluid, washed out colours. They make fun, pretty pictures, and they have a cult following.

Via Biased Cut