It doesn't take masterpiece photos, but the Camera app is loaded with settings and shooting modes you'll find familiar if you've ever messed around with a typical
point-and-shoot camera. It captures video in 720p, and the video can be edited in the editing app, Movie Studio.
19 -- Expanding its G-Series camera line-up in India, Canon has launched the PowerShot G5 X Mark II and the PowerShot G7 X Mark III advanced
point-and-shoot cameras in the country.
Zoom lenses in most
point-and-shoot cameras fall in the 4x-10x range, while some compacts offer up to 20x, which is closing in on the powerful super-zoom territory of 30x-50x.
If you want to move up, the least expensive and easiest to use stand-alone digital cameras are compact cameras, also called
point-and-shoot cameras, with pixel counts generally in the 12 to 20 megapixel range.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC QX-10 is an 18-megapixel camera and the DSC QX100 20-megapixel with a 3.6 x zoom lens feature, are cylindrically shaped
point-and-shoot cameras and also have the ability to store photos and video on memory cards.
The average price of digital
point-and-shoot cameras sold in 2006 was more than twice that of film
point-and-shoot cameras.