Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 series

Sony RX100 VII, 2019 What a phone cannot match here is reach. The RX100 VII packs a 24-200mm-equivalent f/2.8-4.5 optical zoom into a pocketable body, with a pop-up electronic viewfinder for bright days, so a face across a square or a detail on a cathedral front stays sharp instead of being cropped from a wide shot. Its 1-inch stacked sensor is smaller than the APS-C and full-frame sensors elsewhere on this list and cannot match them on image quality; the zoom is the reason to buy it. At around $1,500 for a 2019 design, it is not cheap, but no other camera here combines this range, a viewfinder and a 1-inch sensor in a body this small.