A small, simple camera with automatic exposure and focus, made to be easy to carry and use. It is also called a compact camera.
Film point-and-shoots were very popular from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Digital compacts later lost much of their market to smartphones, but premium models with larger sensors are still made.
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