Things change, I get that. And words sometimes get divorced from their original meanings. I get that, too. But what's happening with compact cameras remains a head-scratcher to me.
Once upon a time, it was simple: a compact was a fixed-lens camera that was nice and small. Compact, you might say. This category of camera tended to be simple, too, designed for convenience and ease of use. And it typically had a zoom lens, from sensible standard zoom ranges to superzoom lens levels of reach.
