Best compact cameras under $500
Premium compacts and enthusiast point-and-shoots under $500: the Sony RX100 series, Canon G7X line, Fujifilm X100 predecessors, and Ricoh GR family.
4 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.
- 2Lowest now$349$429 MSRP81% MSRP
- 3Lowest now$464$549 MSRP85% MSRP
- 4Lowest now$434$279 MSRP156% 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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