Nearly half of the trendiest compact cameras have this feature – and one isn’t even “compact”
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Compact cameras have been rapidly rising in trends, but the latest list of trending cameras from Japan hints at another trend that may be prevailing over size: zoom. Some 40% of the best-selling compact cameras in Japan have at least 15x zoom, including the newly launched Sony RX10 V bridge camera.
The data comes from Japanese camera retailer Yodobashi's list of best-selling compacts for the second half of July. While the list includes several repeat offenders – like the top-ranked Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III , the Canon PowerShot SX740 HS and the viral Fujifilm X100VI – one camera on the list is so new that sales were only open for a single day in July.
The RX10 V only became available on July 31, but the bridge camera came as a surprise announcement after Sony had previously discontinued the 1-inch sensor zoom series without a sign of a replacement.
The RX10 V is hardly a "compact" camera; it weighs about 2 lbs / 1,111g, thanks to a highly versatile 24-600mm equivalent lens. As a bridge camera, it looks more like a small DSLR than a point-and-shoot camera , but Yodobashi defines anything with a fixed, non-removable lens as a "compact camera," so the superzoom made the list.
The Sony RX10 V sits squarely in the middle of the top ten at spot number five, but that's quite an impressive ranking for a camera that, technically, only had one day of sales compared to the other cameras on the list that were available during that entire time period.
The Canon PowerShot SX740 HS | Credit: James Artaius
The RX10 V is one of four cameras on the list with a versatile zoom lens. The PowerShot SX740 HS (second place) has the longest of the bunch with a 40x lens, followed by the Panasonic Lumix TZ99 / ZS99 with a 30x zoom (eighth place), the RX10 V with 25x (fifth place) and the Panasonic Lumix ZS300/TZ300 with a 15x zoom lens (tenth place).
The list hints that zoom remains a key feature for compact cameras – even when that zoom makes the camera no longer pocketable, as is the case with the Sony RX10 V.
While the list is dominated by cameras with zoom, compacts with oversized sensors remain highly popular. The Fujifilm X100VI sits in third place, but is out of stock and likely could have ranked even higher had more been available.
The Ricoh GR IV | Credit: Gareth Bevan / Digital Camera World
The Ricoh GR IV – which, like the X100VI, has an APS-C sensor – is also so popular that it's out of stock at the retailer, but still manages to earn a sixth-place spot in the rankings.
While much of the list leans towards cameras with zoom, the GR IV and X100VI use lenses without optical zoom, instead fitting a larger sensor and brighter aperture into a portable design.
The list also includes one popular vlogging camera, the Sony ZV-1 II , which has an 18-50mm equivalent lens.
The list also highlights the popularity of point-and-shoots that sit on the more affordable side, with two budget models on the list, the Canon PowerShot Elph 360 HS A (known as the Canon IXY 650m in Japan) and the Kodak PixPro C1 .
The best-selling compact cameras at Yodobashi, second half of July 2026
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