At a time when everyone is carrying around a generally capable camera inside their smartphone, compact cameras have struggled to stay relevant. Barring Sony's own wonderful RX100 series and Fujifilm's ...

There are a lot of impressive superzooms out there, but Sony's new HX99 and HX95 models might the smallest. They squeeze a 30x, 24-720mm f/3.5-6 equivalent zoom into a 1.5-inch wide body, making them ...

The $450 Sony HX99 mixes an 18.2-megapixel, 1/2.3-inch sensor with a 28x optical zoom lens, equivalent to about a 24-730mm zoom. Like the earlier Sony HX90V, Sony claims the camera has one of the ...

Sony has managed to squeeze a 720mm lens inside a camera that’s less than 1.5 inches wide. During IFA Berlin on Thursday, August 30, Sony launched the smallest compact zoom cameras yet with the HX99 ...

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