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P anasonic retakes the lead in the advanced compact competition with its LX100. Really good photo and video quality, a great set of features and (for the most part) class-leading performance, result in one of my favorite compact cameras ever. Despite a full auto mode, however, newbies might face a steep climb up the learning curve. At $900 (£800, AU$1,200), it's also pretty expensive if you're just looking for an upgrade to better photo and video than whatever you're using now. As a companion for a dSLR or an alternative to a midrange interchangeable-lens model, though, it's definitely worth considering. Image quality The combination of a great lens and large -- for its class -- sensor yield extremely good photo quality. JPEG images look clean as high as ISO 800 and good through ISO 1600; by ISO 3200 the JPEGs display noise reduction smearing. If you shoot raw, though, you can eke out more detail resolution as high as ISO 12800. However, there isn't...

Canon Rebel T7i $800 dSLR gets first major update in a loooong time Normally, I like to steer people toward last-generation (or more) models for the best value on a budget, and that's especially true with Canon's entry-level dSLRs, the Rebel series in the US. The newer cameras tend to get trickled-down technology from older, higher-end models whose prices have dropped, and it just makes sense to buy those better models instead of the new one with the ancient insides. But the Rebel T7i (800D in the UK and Australia) represents Canon's first truly significant update to the series, really since the T2i in 2010. The T6i got a new-to-it sensor and autofocus system in 2015, but that was a transitional change. The T7i's body remains the same as its predecessor's, but it finally incorporates Canon 's Dual Pixel CMOS sensor, a 3-year-old technology with on-chip phase-detection autofocus that's in almost all Canon's other interchangeable-lens camera lin...

Tere are so many bad things I can say about the Leica Sofort instant camera. I can tell you how I struggled to make it focus, how expensive it is compared to other instant cameras, how the film's plastic packaging is wasteful or simply how it's fundamentally pointless in an age of affordable digital cameras. But if you're looking for an instant camera, you don't care about any of that. The Leica Sofort is for anyone who loves the retro thrill of instant photography and wants a camera from an iconic brand. You just have to decide whether it's worth splashing out for that pleasure. The Leica Sofort sells for £230, $349 or AU$399 with 10 sheets of film starting at £10, $15 or AU$17. That makes it significantly more expensive than the  Polaroid Snap  or the Fuji Instax Mini, the latter of which costs only £55 ($55, AU$99) and uses the exact same film. While the Leica has a few additional features, such as its double exposure mode, you're mostly just pa...