Name: Exemode YASHICA EZF924
Category: digital camera
Price: JPY9980
Release date in Japan: Early November, 2008

Want a camera with an impressive pixel count - say, almost 10 million? Want to spend less than JPY10,000 for it? The  EZF924 from Tokyo-based Exemode, recent reviver of the YSHICA brand in Japan, may fit the bill.

The 85-gram YASHICA's CMOS sensor yields 9.12 million (3488x2616) pixels. On back is a 2.4-inch TFT display. Other specs, while not necessarily bad for a camera, do match up with a low price tag: ISO goes from 100 to a middling (if perfectly serviceable) 800. The 43mm, F3.25 lens is fixed-focus (though a macro mode lets you shoot as close as 20cm). Internal memory is only 16MB, not enough for two shots at highest resolution; make sure to get an SD/SDHC card (up to 8GB) for real shooting. There's no optical zoom, just 8x digital (i.e., no real zoom at all). There is video capability, though just 640x480 AVI (Motion JPEG) at 15-20 frames per second. (That's good enough for YouTube, and the camera includes software for uploading video to YouTube.)

The EZF924 follows on the heels of the EZ824 introduced earlier in October. That model has only 8 megapixels, for JPY14,800, and weighs 40g more than the new model - but it also sports 3x optical zoom, the feature that the EZF924 drops to lower its price and weight so drastically.

Okay, so the EZF924 isn't packed with features. But sounds fine as a small, hi-res cam that you can buy with a single bill. (Before tax. And memory card.)

More info (Japanese):
http://www.yashica.jp/pro/f924.html