It’s pretty much an accepted axiom that if you want a stylish ultra-compact camera, you’re going to be limited to a 3x zoom lens. The corollary of course it that if you want a longer zoom range you’ll end up with a much more bulky camera. There are a few cameras such as the Ricoh Caplio R6 and Panasonic Lumix TZ3 which provide wider than average zoom range in a relatively compact shape, and there are one or two fairly small 4x or 5x zoom compacts available, such as the Canon IXUS 800 IS or the Sony Cyber-shot T100 (review coming next week), but on the whole it is true that most small cameras tend to have small lenses.



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