“The lens takes like 5,000 years to move,” is what Managing Editor Nilofer Khan said to me when I showed the Nikon Coolpix P1100 in our weekly video call. “By the time you zoom in, the bird is gone.” ...

Twenty years ago people would just ask, “Do you shoot Nikon or Canon?” Not so today. Camera tech has evolved at a blistering pace. There are many high-quality brands vying for your dollars, and ...

They say smartphones killed the “point-and-shoot” camera, but reports of the death of these pocket-friendly picture takers have been greatly exaggerated. While low-end models have largely bitten the ...

Pull out any compact digital point-and-shoot camera at a party and everyone will want to take selfies. Pull out your smartphone, and people think you are tuning them out (even if you wanted to take a ...

Point-and-shoot camera manufactures would very much like you to put down your smartphones, please, and try their newest products. Will you? Not a chance. Point-and-shoot cameras have had an awful year ...

Admit it: you want to buy a digital camera. Maybe it hit you last weekend, as you flipped through blurry vacation pics on your Galaxy S4. Or perhaps it was yesterday at work, when a colleague confused ...

On eve of Photo Marketing Association show, camera makers announce new single-lens reflex models to compete in crowded sector of digicam market. Photos: New SLRs from Olympus, Nikon Stephen Shankland ...

Just as digital cameras all but destroyed the market for photographic film, the rapid shift to picture-taking smartphones has torn into a camera sector dominated by Japanese firms including Canon (IW ...

Pocketable point-and-shoot cameras are having a serious moment. Despite the fact that most camera manufacturers haven’t made a new model in years, they are selling out, unable to keep up with demand.