Looking at new point & shoot camera?

I love my Sony RX100. Huge sensor and it fits inside your pocket.

I got a Panasonic ZX-100 for Christmas last year and love it. It can shoot 4k images, can do a lot of Photoshop style tricks on board (sepia, single color, etc.) and the zoom is amazing.

Sony mirrorless

Thanks to all for replying and just wanted to get some input

Look for the camera with the biggest sensor you can afford. Bigger sensors have more accurate colors and better low light performance.

What a point and shoot has over camera phone is a much bigger sensor and zoom capability.

They also have better ergonomics for taking pictures and better battery life if you're using the viewfinder and not the LCD.

Another negative of tiny camera phone sensors is that the apertures are physically tiny which leads to diffraction.

Camera phones are decent if you have plenty of light and need a relatively wide angle with a large depth of field. This would be great for landscapes but the angle really isn't wide enough. 24mm on full frame makes you realize how cramped a phone camera is for landscapes, cityscapes, etc.

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I haven’t bought or researched one in 3+ years but I always liked the Panasonic LUMIX Travel Zoom models for packing a decent zoom lens in a smaller form factor.

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I had a older model and was very pleased with it, now have the model DC-ZS70. Zoom range, and lens quality in a small package was very important to me, for about $350.00 I have been very happen with the results.