The bridge camera market is one of the sectors of the compact camera arena that is continuing to do well amid a general decline. They offer huge zoom ranges in a body similar in size to a DSLR in many cases.Currently, the market-leading focal length range is a 50x optical zoom, which previously was offered solely by the Canon SX50. Now, Sony has introduced the HX300, also offering a 50x optical zoom, and a pretty significant increase from the 30x offered by the Sony HX200V, the camera's predecessor. Sony has also worked hard on its lens technology offerings for its 2013 range of high-zoom compact camera models. Most notably this comes in its downsizing of the physical size of the lens unit. The company is now able to pack 50x optical zooms in the same kind of space that the 30x unit used to take up. The company says that it has created a newly developed Advanced Spherical Lens, which includes both new technologies and others from cameras already existing in the range. Sony believes that it has an advantage over its competitors because it produces all of the key elements of its key cameras in-house - that is the lens, sensor and processor. The Sony HX300 now features a newly developed 20 million pixel 1/2.3-inch Exmor R CMOS sensor. Unlike many of the other bridge cameras currently on the market, the Sony HX300 boasts an impressively fast maximum aperture - at the widest end of the range - of f/2.8. This does rise up to f/6.3 at the telephoto end, but when you consider t
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