Best compact cameras under $1,000
Pocketable cameras with serious image quality. Fixed-lens APS-C and 1-inch sensor models that beat phones by a wide margin and rival many interchangeable-lens kits for stills.
16 models match the filter. Default rank: current price as a percentage of MSRP, so the camera at the steepest discount sits at #1. How we compute this.
- 4Lowest now$949$1,299 MSRP73% MSRP
- 7Lowest now$349$429 MSRP81% MSRP
- 8Lowest now$574$699 MSRP82% MSRP
- 10Lowest now$464$549 MSRP85% MSRP
- 11Lowest now$809$899 MSRP90% MSRP
- 12Lowest now$974$999 MSRP97% MSRP
- 13Lowest now$879$799 MSRP110% MSRP
- 14Lowest now$859$699 MSRP123% MSRP
- 15Lowest now$434$279 MSRP156% MSRP
- 16Lowest now$850$529 MSRP161% MSRP
How we built this list
Camera Shelf tracks used prices across the major used-gear sites every night. This list filters the catalog to cameras that match the criteria above, then ranks by deal score, so the camera at the steepest discount from its launch MSRP comes first. Prices and rankings refresh whenever the crawler completes (typically once per day).
See the methodology page for how prices are collected, how seller conditions are normalized, and what the deal score does and doesn't measure.
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