After seeing what the digital-camera world had to offer at last week's annual Photography show in Vegas, I can confidently say that cameras have never been smaller, cheaper, simpler and just plain better than they are now. Sure, every year's...

Charging out of the gate with the most feature-rich point-and-shoots ever made, Sony introduces the HX1. At 9 megapixels, it's far from the highest-resolution camera on the market, but with its half-inch sensor, more pixels would probably degrade the image...