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Little Black Dress: Samsung NV11

Who? Point-and-shooters who aren't too cool to care. What? Samsung NV11. Why? The NV11 is such a sexy little thang, you might overlook that it's a technological tour de force. A rundown: 10.1MP capture, 38-190mm equivalent f/2.8-4.4 Schneider 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD monitor, video with in-camera editing capability, face recognition (for both autofocus and autoexposure), and subject modes that include text recognition, allowing the extraction of text from pictures of printed matter. The Smart Touch interface keeps it all sorted out with an array of button keys lining the LCD, with very legible control readouts appearing on the screen. Now!$275, street.