Bison Bud wrote:
If your looking for compact and high quality, I would have to think that the Sony RX100 IV you already have may be about as good as it gets without going to a much larger, full frame DLSR. Yeah, you can buy a camera with better specifications, but it's not going to be compact. Unfortunately, one has to give up something to keep the camera small and if that is a high priority, I think you've already made a wise choice with the Sony RX100 IV. Good luck and good shooting to all.
While the Sony is a great camera I get where the OP is coming from. I shoot a Sony RX10MIV and it’s superb for what it does, but I only shoot raw and definitely don’t love Sony’s jpegs. If you want to shoot jpegs go with Fuji or Nikon. Fuji and Nikon create the best looking jpegs I’ve seen. I don’t know the Fuji models, but it sounds like a Nikon Z50 with the two native lenses would cover pretty much everything you want. I shoot Sony, Panasonic and Nikon and they’re all great cameras but even the raw files from my D500 and Z7 just seem a cut above. The Z7 raw files blow me away and are so easy to work with.