The 21st-century camera is a digital animal, and a fast-evolving one. The old push-the-button-and-wait delay that led to so many digital snaps of the spot the 2-year-old just left is becoming a memory. Even cheap new models can shoot fast and deliver several shots in quick succession. Barely readable postage-stamp-size LCD screens are giving way to bigger, brighter displays. Tiny video better suited for phones than for CNN is disappearing in favor of clips you can watch on a real TV screen without wincing. Today's digicams keep getting better and better. Under-$200 designs offer 4-, 5- and even 6-megapixel sensors, decent lenses with a 3X optical zoom range and packages that fit in a pocket. Slimmer, sleeker models cost more.
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