
Beyond its polished exterior, it's also incredibly versatile, with a blazing-fast 24 fps burst rate and a great autofocus system. Its price starts to make sense when you consider its excellent build quality, complete with weather-sealing, a generous handgrip, and premium touches like a top display to check your settings and battery life at a glance. It's fitted with a Zeiss zoom lens that covers a fairly wide full-frame equivalent focal range of 24–600mm, meaning you can shoot far-away subjects or close-ups with ease.

Its large 1-inch sensor outperforms most of the competition and captures great photos straight out of the camera, and it offers RAW shooting and manual controls for more advanced users. Though it comes with a premium price tag, it's the best all-in-one camera we've tested. The Sony RX10 IV is the Rolls-Royce of bridge cameras. If you're interested in a camera for birding or nature photography, you can check out our picks for the best cameras for wildlife photography, as well.

If you're a beginner looking for your first camera, have a look at our recommendations for the best cameras for beginners instead. If you're looking for more compact fixed-lens cameras, you can also check out our recommendations for the best compact cameras. We've bought and tested over 80 cameras in our lab, and below you'll find our recommendations for the best cameras with zoom lenses built in.

While their smaller sensors don't offer the same image quality as crop sensor and full-frame cameras, they combine the simple usability of point-and-shoot cameras with unparalleled zoom range, making them a good fit for casual wildlife and sports photography or family and travel photos. If you aren't a pro, and you just want a lot of zoom in a convenient all-in-one package, a bridge camera (so-called because they're meant to "bridge" the gap between point-and-shoots and DSLRs) can be a good solution. While the best camera with a zoom lens is going to be an interchangeable-lens option paired with a compatible telephoto lens, that route can also make for a bulky and expensive camera kit.
