A slim model that makes an ideal point and shoot for people who want an all purpose camera.

The W50 is a great camera, with good performance very similar to the W30, but with a slightly larger LCD display.

Performed well across a broad range of tests and is only really let down by its high ISO performance.

The DSC-W100 takes brilliant pictures and offers decent functionality. It is only really let down by a weak burst mode.

Bland styling and a small LCD display detract for an otherwise impressive package.

It is stylish, and does have some decent features, but the CoolPix S6 really falls down with regards to image quality. There are better deals elsewhere in the compact camera space.

Overall the Z850 is a solid advanced camera. It doesn't take the best photographs in the world, but it performed above average in most of our tests and crams a robust feature-set into a relatively small design.

As a budget compact camera, the FinePix A500 is a fairly competant model. It doesn't offer the best image quality in the world, and has some noise issues, but for this price tag it is hard to complain.

A low end six megalpixel camera, the F470 is a decent but not outstanding model that fails to differentiate itself from the myriad of compacts on the market.

A competant but not oustanding budget offer, the Coolpix L4 will more than suffice for occasional snapshots.

A competent model, the T30 offers reasonable image quality but suffers because of some noise issues.

While the IXUS 900 Ti is a fairly good compact camera, it suffers from some fringing and noise issues that mean it isn't quite on par with some of Canon's other units.