The advanced compact is back. Panasonic

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If you’ve tried to buy a Canon G7X or a Fujifilm X100V-series camera lately, you may already know that advanced compact cameras have made a real comeback. It’s not a full-on boom like the early 2000s, when every manufacturer cranked them out by the dozen, but there’s real demand for small cameras that produce high-quality images outside what a typical smartphone can pull off. Panasonic has introduced the new LUMIX L10 to court that growing audience, and the result is a very promising (if a little familiar) looking camera designed to handle just about every typical photography scenario.

The L10 ships in June for $1,499 in black or silver, with a limited $1,599 Titanium Gold special edition for LUMIX’s 25th anniversary.…