An expensive and unusually poor Sony product.

The L2 has limited shooting controls, but it’s capable of producing some great-quality shots.

With huge LCDs, underwater capabilities and high resolutions for under $450, now is the time to buy.

The Ixus 60 delivers superb image quality and is beautifully designed and built.

Canon's reign over the compact digital camera market looks set to continue with this offering.

Tiny, intuitive and a great performer, the IXUS 85 is the ideal carry-anywhere camera

It’s the stills camera that thinks it’s a video camera. A high definition video camera.

The first thing you notice about the Kyocera Samurai 2100DG is the shape of the camera.

If there's someone in your life without a digital camera, there's never been a better time to get them started. Compact cameras now offer 8-12 megapixels for under $500, and provide large LCDs for easy viewfinding and shot setup as well as automatic face recognition, multiple focal points and more!

In the words of Amy Winehouse: they tried to make us buy this Kodak, but we said ‘no, no, no’

A superb camera that takes fantastic pictures, and offers excellent portability and versatility

If the Ixus i were any smaller it would be plain inconvenient to use. Weighing just over 100g, it’s certainly a camera you can keep with you all the time. As you’d expect at this size and price, there are limitations, the most obvious being the fixed focal length lens, but there’s plenty else to be thankful for.

A sexy magnesium-alloy housing gives the IXUS 400 one of the most compact camera bodies submitted this month. The bright 118,000-pixel LCD gives an excellent preview of your images or for shot placement when not using the viewfinder.

A very slim digital compact that’s capable of taking superb pictures. It only just misses out on a Recommended award.

Superb, stylish, solid... but sabotaged by poor controls

A beautiful example of high technology, but we have reservations about the ultimate quality of images.

In issue 119 of PC Authority, we took eighteen cameras and put their images under the microscope. Now you can too.

Can you ditch your compact digital camera yet? We test the latest batch of phone cameras to find out.

Dreaming of a super-skinny touchscreen compact for Christmas? For around $400, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T77 has finally convinced us touchscreen cameras are a good thing.

Image quality is reasonable, but there are far better cameras available for less.