Sentence examples for compact point and shoot from inspiring English sources
Traditionally, film-camera-makers sold compact "point and shoot" cameras to the mass market, and fancier "single-lens reflex" (SLR) cameras, with interchangeable lenses, to both enthusiasts and professionals.
The Olympus TG-2 is a simple, compact point and shoot that is clad in a hard plastic case.
Today, Samsung release a whole slew of new cameras, like this one, the new ST6500, a 16-megapixel compact point and shoot.
Compact point-and-shoot digital cameras tend to be more portable than powerful.
FOR several years, camera makers have trained their engineering expertise on the sweet spot between compact point-and-shoot cameras and chunky (yet capable) D.S.L.R.'s.
Mirrorless cameras are a new category of compact camera that offer better quality than a compact point-and-shoot but are smaller than a full-size D.S.L.R. camera.
"Once you get beyond seven or eight megapixels in a compact point-and-shoot camera, the small lenses are struggling to keep up," Mr. Askey said.
If these assumptions apply to you — and they do for an awful lot of people — here are three recommendations in three categories: compact point-and-shoot, mirrorless compact camera and entry-level digital single-lens reflex.
Just consider Alex Majoli, an award-winning Magnum photographer, who is known for shooting images of war and other dramatic scenes for publications like National Geographic and Newsweek — with compact point-and-shoot digital cameras.
Both companies are unveiling digital single-lens-reflex cameras aimed squarely at the mass market — in particular, people moving up from compact point-and-shoot models in search of better pictures.
(The only compact point-and-shoot options are the Sigma DP-1 for $700, which The New York Times consumer technology columnist David Pogue praised for its image quality but panned on all other counts; the new Panasonic DMC-G1, which Mr. Pogue had similarly mixed feelings about; and the newly announced, but untested, Sigma DP-2).
