The good old compact camera isn't quite dead: Panasonic maintains its life support

Panasonic TZ202D mock-up
(Image credit: www.vecteezy.com, Future)

Ladies and gentlemen, this is big. We need champagne, balloons, fireworks, a trumpet solo - heck, hire the whole darned marching band! That's right, a new compact camera has landed!

Yes, thanks to the tedious global domination of the camera phone, the launch of a new, conventional compact camera has become a very rare event, so much so that it's worthy of much fanfare... or at least a brief mention on Digital Camera World.

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Ben Andrews

Ben is the Imaging Labs manager, responsible for all the testing on Digital Camera World and across the entire photography portfolio at Future. Whether he's in the lab testing the sharpness of new lenses, the resolution of the latest image sensors, the zoom range of monster bridge cameras or even the latest camera phones, Ben is our go-to guy for technical insight. He's also the team's man-at-arms when it comes to camera bags, filters, memory cards, and all manner of camera accessories – his lab is a bit like the Batcave of photography! With years of experience trialling and testing kit, he's a human encyclopedia of benchmarks when it comes to recommending the best buys.