Top Point & Shoot Digital Cameras 2023

The Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II fixes just about every fault of the original G1 X, but it's got some stiff competition for your dollar.

The future of the point-and-shoot is the superzoom

The Canon PowerShot S120 delivers impressive image quality in a compact package with Raw shooting capability, but it's not quite an Editors' Choice.

The Canon PowerShot SX280 HS puts 20x zoom in your pocket, along with Wi-Fi, GPS, and 1080p60 video capture. It's an ideal travel camera, and earns our Editors' Choice award.

One of the best cameras you can buy for less than $200, the svelte, 10x-zoom Canon PowerShot Elph 330 HS takes beautiful pictures and lets you send them instantaneously with integrated Wi-Fi.

Canon's PowerShot A1400 is a capable, easy-to-use point-and-shoot camera that can capture sharp images in good light. And it'll only set you back about $100.

The enthusiast-focused Canon PowerShot G15 delivers excellent image quality, but lacks some features found in other top-end cameras.

The Sony ZV-1 II is a good vlogging camera. Its new wider-angle lens is well-suited to vlogs. Its large fully-articulated screen also makes it easy to monitor yourself while recording, and, with full touch capability, it's easy to adjust settings on the fly without diving into the menu. It's also easy to switch out memory cards when using a tripod or grip, thanks to the adjusted placement of the tripod thread on the bottom of the camera. Beyond that, it has a good amount of frame rate options. It comes with some cool dedicated vlogging features, like 'Cinematic Vlog' mode, which gives your videos a wider aspect ratio and lets you play with the color and tone of the image, or 'Product Showcase', which automatically refocuses on objects held up in the frame. That said, the lack of optical or in-body stabilization is disappointing, and the camera's digital stabilization isn't perfect and crops the image to a noticeably narrower field of view. The camera also struggles with overheating in 4k.

Nikon's Coolpix S9500 is a fully loaded pocket camera with a huge zoom range and a sharp lens, but it doesn't quite edge out our Editors' Choice.

The Leica V-Lux 5 is great for sport and wildlife photography. It has a fairly long zoom range to help you capture far-off subjects. Unfortunately, its face-tracking performance is disappointing, but it does a good job of tracking moving objects. The image quality is great, with minimal noise at higher ISO levels, making it suitable for lower light conditions. Finally, its shooting speed is impressive, with a fast continuous shooting rate and virtually instant buffer empty time when shooting in JPEG.