Have Your Say: Best Enthusiast Zoom Compact of 2013

Samsung WB 850 F
23 to 483 mm lens! It takes fantastic photos, and I carry it on a very small pouch on my belt, which also takes 3 more 8 meg memory card and 2 spare batteries!
The HDR, backlight, panorama and other settings on it works great, especially the HDR - with it one can take photos inside a house in broad daylight, and see everything inside and outside clearly, without using any flash at all.
It boggles the mind why other camera manufacturers, like Olympus, brings out new travel zooms, that only start at 28 mm wide!?

Pana GM1 should be in this group too :-)

these polls are useless of course you're going to vote for the one you own. most won't have experience with any other camera to make 'best' judgement
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look how the polls reflect what the majority own

Gee the comments are a L O N G way down the page. Could you squeeze any more ads in? :/

What does "best" actually mean? And I'm not so sure the S120 and the RX10 for example, belong in the same poll.

The cover photo portrays all the cameras as a random pile of... junk.

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I wonder what these votes really mean? Most will just end up voting for the one they bought (or lusted after). Doesn't make it the best. And how do any of us know whether the ones we didn't buy or try, are better or worse. Ah well, harmless enough I suppose...

I had bunch of compact size cams, lately the Olympus xz2, earlier the Canon s100 and another Nikon 7700. All are loaded with nice and cool features, but to be honest, if you are note feature and cool stuff freak like cool filters and such, you should keep those away. Besides, Nikon and Olympus were NOT pocket size compact cams, although they deliver super pictures. The competition remained between Canon s120 and the new destroyer Fuji Q1 with bigger sensor and less freaky filter stuff, and of course with the new sensor that don't use filter (read the reviews). Fuji has the fastest AF in the world and the wifi thing is pretty cool, pictures are more than excellent, this the new cams destroyer for the pocket cams candidates in the pocket size cams category

I know Sony are very popular and deservedly so, but I wouldn't take the RX100's 28mm beginning or the RX10's huge size (same for most of the other cameras). Gotta go with the classic.

Sony's innovation pays off big time for second year in the row.
The happy owners of RX100II are in majority in this segment so the results are quite predictable.
It used to be Canon with groundbreaking S90/S95 to rule the segment. Now after just a few years of sitting on laurels the S120 sadly struggles to compete with smartphones.

compact? RX100II of course, nothing else comes close.

These vote results will likely have the largest gap between 1st and 2nd place. I am still surprised no one else has come out with a fixed zoom 1" sensor camera.