Best Bridge Digital Cameras - Autofocus Focus Type

Full-featured, best-performing super-zoom

One-size-fits-all bridge cameras are often touted as DSLR alternatives, but they’ve always lacked great performance and image quality – until Sony’s Cyber-shot RX10 showed up, that is.

High quality electronic viewfinder, Classic camera styling

Fast performance, very good picture quality for its class

Full 1080p movie recording with stereo sound

Good viewfinder, Pleasing handling, Impressive focus performance

Decent image quality, raw capture option

Lot of shooting options

Video is surprisingly smooth and sharp in the top 1080/30p mode

Flexible LCD screen

Excellent VR optical stabilisation, Built-in GPS with POI database

30x zoom lens, a high-res 3-inch LCD

Ease of use, simplicity

8fps burst and lots of other continuous modes, 180 and 360 degree panoramas

Good value, Big zoom option, Sharp results usually

Lots of optical zoom, Built-in Wi-Fi, Good value for money

Excellent value for money, Decent zoom range

Extraordinary zoom range with excellent image stabilization

Solid overall image quality, especially for a super-zoom

World's biggest zoom on a compact camera

50x zoom, HD (1080p) movie mode

Sharp lens, Snappy performance, Impressive 50x zoom range

Build quality is good

Fast aperture, JPEG + raw shooting

Feature packed, Large optical zoom lens