best travel zooms

The touch screen is intuitive and amazingly sharp (1,152,000 dots, the highest resolution around, and it's 3.5" so it's huge)!

Very nice more than a point and shoot if you want,the zoom is what i wanted and it works great,very happy.

With a 30x zoom, 16.2MP Emore R sensor, fully manual controls, a 3-inch high-resolution LCD screen, Sony’s class-leading Sweep Panorama technology, Full HD movie capture with stereo sound, and built-in GPS functionality the HX9V certainly brings plenty to the table.

Second, unlike my Canon, a zoomed picture is clear enough that you can zoom in on the already zoomed image by a factor of 8 or so and still be crisp.

Takes very nice and clear pictures in low light and without flash, the overall quality of the pictures is a great as with the SZ-7, and I discovered that this SZ-10 version has a touch screen to take pictures, zoom, go through the pictures taken, etc..

The capability for RAW and RAW+JPEG files is a big benefit of this camera.

While they are billed as fully automatic cameras with no manual controls, you can choose the sensitivity (ISO 80-1600, auto), adjust the exposure (-2 to +2 eV), choose a minimum shutter speed (1 to 1/125 for ZR1, 1 to 1/250 for ZS3), which , while it is not capable of extremely long exposures, it is effective at forcing a very fast shutter speed if you are trying to get action shots.

With the new BSI-CMOS sensor powered by Fujifilm's EXR processor engine, these compact megazooms deliver high-speed continuous shooting at 12fps, high-speed movies at 400fps, capture full 360-degree panoramic photos, and capture full HD movies at 1080p and have an HDMI output connector.

Yes, it is an 18-megapixel camera, but more pixel count doesn't necessarily mean you will get better picture results.