I have a Nikon Cool Pix 5700 (sa-weet). It is probably bigger than that model Olympus, but it still isn't big. Very light weight. I currently am using a 256MB compact flash that holds 100+ 5 megapixel images.

It can shoot up to 1 minute of an mpg file too and has a built in microphone. I only tried that once and the inexpensive memory I used made a click-click-click noise all through the test movie I made. I have not tried it with the small card that came with the camera. I really didn't care about that feature so I haven't tried it.

It too becomes a drive letter on your PC when connected, but I've never cared to use the camera as a drive letter. The camera as a memory reader is slower than an external memory reader. External memory readers are dirt cheap and they don't use the camera batteries. I've also noticed that the memory reader in my printer is slower too.

I shot my shots, take the card out of the camera and stick it in the memory reader, move the images, and put the card back in the camera. None of this requires me to shut down the external USB device when ejecting.

When on the road I have a PCMCIA card that reads Compact Flash. It was less than $10.

I just looked at your camera at www.steves-digicams.com
Check out there for reviews etc of other models, but I don't think you're going to get what you're asking for and that small.
I also prefer Compact flash to the Smart Media that camera uses.


>I tried yesterday the Olympus D-520. I found that one terrific. I was extremely surprised to see that just by plugging the USB cable into the PC that this was recognized as a drive. We used to have that with flash card on laptop but on a PC, wow! This is cool as whenever you travel, you can hook it up to any PC, no installation required (other than the default driver that will be loaded automatically) and you're ready to read directly from the drive.
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>Most of the digital cameras, when needed to transfer on PC, require you to go thru a software and decide to extract one by one.
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>It also has a movie recorder that I need. However, it doesn't have sound. The only one that has sound is the Olympus Series C 5050. But, this one is much bigger.
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>I am looking right now for a Digital Camera that can use USB to build a drive on the PC, able to record with sound, support at least 128 mb card and is as small as the Olympus D-520.