The smartphone camera brought death predictions for the compact camera – and yet the cameras that are hardest to find in stock right now are point-and-shoot cameras. While compact cameras deserve the revival, there’s one more category of fixed lens cameras that I hope to see back in the spotlight: Bridge cameras.
Bridge cameras offer a key feature that even the priciest smartphone cameras can’t offer: Zoom. Sometimes called superzooms, the bridge camera is the point-and-shoot but with a bazooka of a lens on the front, with zoom ranges from 20x to even 125x. Even the best smartphone cameras and camera binoculars pale in comparison compared to the far-reaching powers of a superzoom.
