For many consumers, compact cameras have gone the way of the dinosaur thanks to the growing popularity of smartphones. Why take a camera around in your right pocket, when you already have a camera phone in your left? Indeed, the term "camera phone" is itself somewhat outdated since nearly every mobile phone these days comes with a camera built-in. Nevertheless, there are some specific cases where a smartphone just won't do the job. And we're going to look at two of those today.

Have you ever seen those videos of clouds rushing across the Tokyo sky, or a sunset in a matter of seconds, or a midnight to dawn view flash by in just a few moments? This kind of fascinating imagery is captured by using time-lapse photography. And while some cameras support this feature, not all of them do. Most of the time, in order to create an animated movie from a collection of sequential photos, you require special software.

But a new, affordable camera from Japanese manufacturer King Jim makes interval shooting dead easy. The Recolo is a simple camera that is dedicated to time-lapse photography.