Nikon Coolpix P6000
Nikon recently announced their new flagship digital compact camera called the Coolpix P6000
Expected in September for $500 list, this camera has a 13.5-million-pixel CCD. It can shoot in raw mode, meaning that it does not have to apply any lossy compression at all. It has a feature called d-lighting which fixes otherwise underexposed images caused by excessive backlighting. The P6000 even has an ethernet jack.
Geotagging
But the feature that interests me most is geotagging. The camera has a built-in GPS which allows it to embed the location of the camera in every shot.
Geotagging will allow you to look at a photos of your trip on a map. You will always be able to find out exactly where your pictures were shot. You can embed the pictures in Google Maps or in Flickr with the location link. Eventually applications such as iPhoto should be able to sort photos by location instead of just by date taken.
Until now, we needed to go through a complex process if we wanted to add GPS information to photos. Ricoh and some pro cameras have offered this feature as an add-on, but it has never been built into a mainstream camera. Hopefully we will see geotagging in more cameras to come.