A few years ago, compact cameras were dead and buried. But like something from a B horror movie, they’ve not only risen from the grave, but they are everywhere, and I don’t understand why.
Their demise was predictable. Compact point-and-shoots were the preserve of casual snappers. Invariably based on a tiny sensor, phone tech first matched them for image quality, and then, thanks largely to smartphones’ increasingly sophisticated processing grunt, overtook them.
