Just as I predicted at the start of the year, 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the big sensor in the fixed-lens point-and-shoot market. The new Sony Cyber-shot RX100 joins the Canon PowerShot G1 X and Fujifilm X10 in the Big Sensor Club with a new 1-inch type 20.2-megapixel CMOS chip. However, Sony has managed to master something that the competition hasn't, and that's the size...
The Canon PowerShot G1 X hoodwinked the digital camera market when it was announced back in January at CES. Traditionally, no fixed lens point-and-shoot camera had ever dabbled with a large sensor before, if you exclude the very expensive Fujifilm X10. But even the X10's 2/3 size sensor was not an unprecedented size upgrade from the 1/1.7-inch chips found in the Canon PowerShot G12,...
When it came to digital imaging, the biggest stars of CES 2012 were Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm and Lytro. Panasonic, Sony, Olympus, Pentax and Samsung stuck to their current lineups on the show floor, but I know most of the lot will be unleashing new cameras within the next few months. Then there was Casio. Oh, Casio. The company unveiled two high-speed point-and-shoots equipped with...