Smartphone cameras may be improving, but they’re still not on the same level as a dedicated camera. While cameras can be bulky, the best compact cameras offer a small, portable, lightweight build, ...

They say the best camera is the one you have with you. For most, that means the cameras they have bolted onto their smartphones. But that is not true for everyone — especially the younger crowd. To a ...

Apple killed David with his own catapult, but he rose from the dead. How did the compact camera claw its way back into the arms of the consumer?

Camera phones have annihilated the conventional compact camera market, so for a standalone compact to really stand out these days, it needs to deliver clearly superior image quality. The best way to ...

Discover our round-up of the best compact cameras available, including the Fujifilm X100VI, Sony RX100 VII, a new Leica, the ...

Camera shipments from Japan dropped across every category in May 2026, including the trendy compact camera. According to the ...

The first commercial digital camera required a docking station and a computer just to boot up ...

Sony’s been pretty tight-lipped about its ultra compact DSLR camera concept, but someone did share screenshots of what appears to be a rather nice menu system designed for a touchscreen. It looks like ...

I've been testing cameras since the early 2000s, and what's struck me most about this particular round-up is just how different the best compact cameras are right now, compared with even a few years ...

Worldwide shipments of point-and-shoots peaked at 110.7 million cameras in 2008, a year after the iPhone (with its paltry two-megapixel rear-facing camera) was introduced. Since then, the market has ...