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Pentax K-7
IntroductionThe Pentax K-7 marks something of a turning point for the company's dSLR division. Once a company that scrambled to catch up with its rivals (recall their late-to-the-party *ist D), with the K-7 Pentax vaulted momentarily to the he...
Grade: C+ Price: $599.00
Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS
Extended zooms, indestructible casings, and new mirrorless formats are all exciting, of course. But the new camera I've been most excited to get my mitts on this season is the Canon Powershot SD1300 IS (known as the IXUS 105 in some regions). ...
Grade: C+ Price: $230.00
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20K
It's been a few years since I played with a Panasonic. Back then, I personally felt that there was a risk in purchasing (or recommending for purchase) any camera made by a manufacturer that didn't begin with C or N. Brands like Panasonic m...
Grade: C+ Price: $179.00
Sony DSC-W370
The Sony Cybershot W370 is the high-end installation in Sony's popular Cybershot W-series. Like the slew of other 14-megapixel shooters. I had reservations about cramming another couple million pixels onto a sensor no larger than what other di...
Grade: B- Price: $250.00
Olympus Stylus 7030
The Stylus 7030 looks to be a solid point and shoot. The specs stack up to similarly priced models from Samsung, Kodak, and Panasonic that were announced at CES 2010. While the non-HD motion JPEG video is subpar this year, Olympus must be banking ...
Grade: B Price: $90.00
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5
The LX5 is the successor to the beloved LX3, a high-performance compact in league with the Canon G11 or the Samsung TL500. It's the kind of camera that hardcore photographers carry around as a supplement to a dSLR setup, one that's portabl...
Grade: A- Price: $400.00
Panasonic Lumix FH25
The FH25 is a compact, medium-zoom camera, which is just the type of digital camera that Panasonic excels at making. It follows in the footsteps of a great little shooter: Its predecessor, the FH20, was Digital Camera HQ’s Best Consumer Camera of ...
Grade: A- Price: $200.00
Canon PowerShot SX230 HS
For everything that Canon does right, they've always struggled with the compact-zoom genre. Last year's SX210 IS and SD4500 IS, for example, had some great qualities, yet puzzling design choices stifled their appeal.But 2011 is a year wher...
Grade: C+ Price: $225.00
Nikon Coolpix P500
A camera's zoom range has always been an important spec, but in the past two years, there's been an almost unhealthy obsession with making faraway objects look really big. Since 2009, the longest zoom range in a fixed-lens camera has doubl...
Grade: C+ Price: $546.00
Canon PowerShot ELPH 310 HS
Canon’s ELPH line has existed now for years with nary a hiccup in image or build quality. The lineup took a turn in 2011 with the advent of Canon’s HS, or high sensitivity, system. These newer cameras boast CMOS sensors for improved lo...
Grade: B- Price: $300.00
Canon PowerShot S100
Canon’s S-series lineup has, since the S30 way back in 2001, been the prosumer yet pocketable line slotted between the less functional ELPHs and larger G-series. The cameras are a DSLR owner’s pocketable alternative or a high-end point...
Grade: B- Price: $250.00
Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS20
Panasonic began their compact travel zoom series way back in 2006 with the TZ-1. Subsequent models in the TZ and ZS lines have always married a relatively small body with a very useful zoom range and many high-end features, like manual modes and c...
Grade: B Price: $510.00
Panasonic Lumix TS20
The Panasonic TS20 digital camera picks up where 2010’s TS10 left off, filling a niche for the budget-minded consumer looking for a rugged compact. The TS series is most well-known for the TSx’s, the most recent being the high-end, ultra-rugged T...
Grade: B Price: $216.00
Canon PowerShot ELPH 110 HS
Canon’s ELPH lineup began way back in 1996 with the launch of a sleek and stylish APS film camera of that very name. The camera went on to become the best selling APS camera ever made, and the branding quickly made the switch to digital with...
Grade: B Price: $224.00
Nikon COOLPIX P510
The Nikon P510 is the follow-up to 2011’s P500, a well-reviewed camera that pushed the limits of zoom range in a compact. That camera’s 36x optical zoom, however, pales in comparison to the P510’s monstrous 42x range, a number th...
Grade: B+ Price: $390.00
Canon PowerShot A810
The Canon A810 sits on the bottom rung of Canon’s PowerShot lineup, announced at a very affordable $109. Canon compacts typically have among the best image quality on the market, yet past A-series models have really run the gamut from downri...
Grade: C+ Price: $99.00
Pentax Optio WG-2 GPS
Pentax has been in the waterproof digital camera arena since 2005, if we don’t count the earlier water resistant models, with the release of the Pentax Optio WP. Megapixel counts have soared since that first 4.9 megapixel model, and waterpro...
Grade: B Price: $330.00
Olympus TG-820 iHS
Olympus’ TOUGH camera line pioneered the rugged digital camera, pairing waterproof bodies with shockproof exteriors that can take a beating and keep clicking away. The first TOUGH models appeared in 2007, and since then have consistently gotten s...
Grade: B Price: $380.00
Fujifilm FinePix F770EXR
Fujifilm garnered a cult-like following of true believers following the release of 2006’s F30 and subsequent F31 and cheaper F20 cameras. These compacts, equipped with the latest in Fujifilm’s proprietary Super CCD technology, approach...
Grade: B- Price: $291.00
Nikon COOLPIX S9300
Yet another entry to the compact travel zoom category, the Nikon S9300 replaces the S9100 as Nikon’s high-end all-in-one compact. The S-series, which truly spans the compact spectrum from the budget-oriented S3300 up to the $350 S9300, has b...
Grade: C Price: $249.00
Nikon COOLPIX P310
Nikon’s P-series currently represents their high-end compact lineup. The line came to the fore with the arrival of the P5000 in 2007, an enthusiast compact that blended the separation between point and shoot and DSLR. Subsequent models have ...
Grade: C+ Price: $700.00
Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX30V
Sony began its HX compact line just in 2010 with the HX5, a camera sporting a decent 10x zoom range, high-end CMOS sensor, and high-speed burst modes. These same three pillars, zoom range, image quality, and speed, have come to define Sony’s...
Grade: B+ Price: $406.00
Sony DSC-RX100
There's no denying the advantage of a DSLR, but there's also a distinct benefit to having a camera that can fit in a pocket. Enter the Sony DSC-RX100, a camera that attempts to bridge the gap between compact and SLR. The size of the RX100 ...
Grade: A- Price: $368.00
Samsung EX2f
Samsung entered the enthusiast compact arena in 2010 withthe EX1, a 10 megapixel camera that featured a fast f1.8-2.4 lens but didlittle to push the envelope in terms of other features. As with many of thecameras out at the time, the EX1 used a CC...
Grade: B+ Price: $863.00
Nikon Coolpix P7700
The Coolpix line of pocket cameras have been high performers in the category, even if they haven't always looked the part. The latest models feature large rotatable LCD panels, and this replacement to the P7100 improves on the predecessor in m...
Grade: B+ Price: $500.00
Olympus PEN Lite E-PL5
Olympus, along with Panasonic, helped to create the Micro Four Thirds standard and now they’ve attempted to perfect it with their new model that improves both on the predecessors and other cameras in their lineup—it even includes the s...
Grade: B Price: $500.00
Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ5K
Panasonic’s SZ line, announced just this year, is their latest budget offering that combines versatile lenses with compact and lightweight builds. All three pocketable cameras in the line look nearly identical and feature 10x zoom 25-250mm l...
Grade: B Price: $200.00
Nikon 1 J3
The Nikon 1 line has always been the more compact of the mirrorless options, but the camera giant is now claiming the smallest interchangeable lens camera on the market with the 2013 introduction of the 1 J3. With a body as tall and wide as a poin...
Grade: B+ Price: $599.00
Nikon COOLPIX S6500
Nikon's more advanced point and shoot models have caught quite a bit of attention in the past few years. The camera giant's newest addition, the Nikon Coolpix S6500, adds wi-fi, a few more megapixels and a longer zoom range over the older ...
Grade: B+ Price: $280.00
Pentax MX-1
Pentax's new MX-1 brings a retro styling to the small yet sophisticated advanced compact category. Introduced in February 2013, the MX-1 has the undeniable look and feel of a classic camera with a full neck strap, brass trim, textured grip and...
Grade: B- Price: $400.00