Best Cameras in the UK (2026)

The X-M5 is the camera for someone who films more than they photograph and wants to carry it everywhere. The kit with the 15-45mm lens weighs under half a kilogram on the listing, which makes it the lightest interchangeable-lens package on this page, and it records 6.2K video at 30 frames a second, the highest video resolution here. It is a video-first design: a screen that flips out to face you, a microphone input and Fujifilm's film simulations, which give footage and stills a finished look without grading. The sensor is the same 26.1MP APS-C X-Trans part Fujifilm uses in bodies costing considerably more, so stills are not an afterthought. Two things are missing, and both matter for stills. There is no viewfinder, so composing in bright sun means shading the screen, and there is no in-body stabilisation, so the lens's own stabilisation is all you get. The Sony a6400 and Nikon Z50 on this page have viewfinders; this does not. It is sold by a third-party seller and dispatched by Amazon, so check the returns terms. Four outlets have published a review of this exact model, more than any other camera on this page.

The ZV-E10 sells in volume for a straightforward reason: it puts an APS-C sensor and Sony's E-mount behind a body designed to be simple, and E-mount has the widest selection of lenses of any mirrorless system, new and second-hand. It is a video-first design: fully articulating screen, strong face and eye autofocus, a microphone input, and no viewfinder at all. For filming yourself it is close to ideal. For landscape work in bright sun, the missing viewfinder is a real limitation. It is the best entry into a system rather than a dead end. The ZV-E10 appears on Amazon UK under several listings, and the older kit listings are now sold only by third-party sellers; this one is the kit with Sony's updated 16-50mm II lens, sold and dispatched by Amazon.

The a6400 is the camera to look at if the ZV-E10 appeals but you will mostly take photographs. It shares the E-mount, so it draws on the same enormous lens selection, and its 24.2MP APS-C sensor is in the same class. What it adds is the thing the ZV-E10 leaves out: a built-in electronic viewfinder, which matters on a bright day and for anything you follow through the frame. Sony's autofocus is the other reason it sells. Real-time Eye AF and tracking, for people and animals, work in both stills and video, per the listing, and the 180-degree tilting screen still flips up to face you for filming yourself. The omission to know about is stabilisation: there is none in the body, so the lens does that work, and handheld video is less steady than on a camera with in-body stabilisation. It costs more than the ZV-E10, and whether the viewfinder is worth the difference is the whole decision.

This is the first Nikon Z body with a substantial owner record on Amazon UK, and it earns its place on handling. The Z50 takes the grip, controls and electronic viewfinder of Nikon's full-frame Z cameras and puts them in a smaller APS-C body, with a 20.9MP sensor and 4K video at 30p, per the listing. The Z mount is the reason to choose it over a Sony. The APS-C lens range is narrower than E-mount, but the mount is shared with Nikon's full-frame bodies, so a kit started here can move up later without starting again. The 16-50mm kit lens carries its own vibration reduction, which matters because the body has no in-body stabilisation. Nikon has since released the Z50 II, which adds newer processing and subject-detection autofocus. It has a much thinner owner record on Amazon UK so far, and the original is still the one with the evidence. This listing is sold by a third-party seller rather than Amazon, so check the returns terms before ordering.

The EOS R50 is the camera Canon aims at people moving up from a phone, and it is the first Canon mirrorless body on Amazon UK sold by Amazon itself with enough owner evidence to rank. It pairs a 24.2MP APS-C sensor with an electronic viewfinder and a fully articulating touchscreen, and records 4K at 30p oversampled from 6K without a crop, per the listing. Against the Sony ZV-E10 on this list it adds a viewfinder; against the Nikon Z50 it adds a screen that turns to face you. The weak point is the system rather than the body. Canon's RF-S range of lenses made for its APS-C cameras is short, and while Canon's full-frame RF lenses fit, they are larger and most cost more than the camera. The owner record on Amazon UK is still modest, so this ranking leans on the specification and on the two published reviews of this exact model, from Trusted Reviews and TechRadar.

Micro Four Thirds uses a smaller sensor than APS-C, and everything gets smaller with it: bodies, and lenses especially. For travel and street photography, where a camera you actually carry beats one left at home, that trade is often the right one. Unlike the ZV-E10, this one has an electronic viewfinder, which makes it far easier to use in bright conditions, and it includes in-body stabilisation and a kit lens in the price. The smaller sensor limits it in poor light against the Sony bodies here, and Micro Four Thirds has a narrower lens future than E-mount. As a complete, portable package it is the most balanced buy here.