Best Digital Cameras - 800 to 1000 $ Prices, 1 to 4 x Optical Zoom

'Overall, the Sony RX100 IV is an amazing feat of engineering and design.'

'Great stills, outstanding video, and loads of features make this an amazing compact cam. '

'Customizable controls'

'The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV's 3x zoom lens offers a fairly versatile focal range, as illustrated by these examples:.'

'The maximum aperture of F/2.8 and the large APS-C sensor makes it easy to blur the background and importantly makes the camera more versatile in low-light.'

'Memory card slot on the side.'

'fast maximum aperture'

'The RX100 is plenty capable, but its greatest strength is its size.'

'Customizable controls'

'The built-in flash worked well indoors, with no red-eye and good overall exposure. '

'Secondly, there's a handy sensor which automatically detects when the D-Lux (Typ 109) is held up to eye-level and even starts auto-focusing, with just the slightest delay until the display is ready. '

' The 12.4 effective megapixel K-r is Pentax’s follow-up digital SLR to the entry level K-x, a sound, good value starter option. '

'The Pentax K-r is one of the few worthy intruders, flaunting several improvements over its next in command, the Pentax K-x.'

'exceptionally fast performance'

'If Pentax can step up its efforts to make itself visible in the industry, the K-r is a competitive model in the entry-level dSLR category.'

'The camera also sports a significantly redesigned weather-sealed body, and the new viewfinder has an LCD overlay for providing additional information, like an on-demand grid and electronic levels. and this is the first EOS dSLR to incorporate wireless flash. '

'Excellent still-image and HD-video quality.'

'Very impressive. '

'On paper the 7D looks like a very capable camera and Canon rarely disappoints. '