When the zoom feature on my old digital camera started malfunctioning, I decided to buy myself a new one. On my previous camera, I had an optical zoom up to 7x, but because the lens needs to be bigger for that amount of zoom, the camera was on the large and bulky side.

I found that I often didn't have the camera with me when I needed it, because it was so large and heavy to tote around.… Read more »