 The best cameras for dry land Three digicams that can outpace your phone in the specs department – if roughing it is not your thing Sony NEX-F3
 The NEX-F3 ($599.99, including a 18-55mm zoom lens) offers you the fl exibility of interchangeable lenses without the size and bulk of a traditional d-SLR. The 16-megapixel F3 can record high-def video and features 3-inch display that can be tilted 180 degrees for framing shots at diffi cult angles. Sony pushed the limits on the battery, too: The NEX-F3 is capable of a whopping 470 shots before needing a recharge.
Canon PowerShot Elph 320 HS
Thin and wide are not attributes normally associated together, but Canon’s PowerShot Elph 320 HS ($249) manages just that. It’s thin – measuring in at 0.82 inches thick – and it packs a 24mm wide-angle lens, allowing you to swallow up more of the scene in front of you. It offers built-in Wi-Fi for wirelessly sharing images far and wide. The 16-megapixel Elph delivers a 5x optical zoom, 3.2inch touchscreen display and HD video recording. It’s available in your choice of silver, red, blue or black. Panasonic SZ7K  If you need a bit more optical punch on a budget, the Panasonic SZ7K ($199) packs a 10x optical zoom, 25mm wideangle lens in a compact camera body. Panasonics’s on-hand, optical-image stabilization keeps your photos blur-free. It records HD video in both the AVCHD and MPEG-4 formats, so you can switch between the higher-quality video of the former or the memory-saving, computerfriendlier movies of the latter. Rounding out the SZ7K’s feature set is a 14-megapixel image sensor and a 3-inch display. |
