Olympus

No real surprises here (aside from the appearance of a pink Cadillac on the booth); this is the first chance most people have had to get their sticky mitts on a raft of new models announced earlier this month. Star product is the E-400, a very compact, very cute 10MP addition to the E-series of Four-Thirds DSLRs, and one that - for the moment only - is not available outside Europe. There are two new lenses here too; the 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 (28-84mm equiv) and 40-150mm F4-5.6, a very compact 80-300mm equivalent zoom. Olympus is also showing a concept / mockup of its new professional E system camera (the E-P1) - not a lot to say about it really, as this is a very early prototype.

On the compact side there are five new Mju / Stylus models on show, the 10MP Stylus 1000, three 7MP models (730, 740 and CCD-shift stabilized 750) and the europe-only Mju 725 SW, a minor update to the Mju 720 SW water, dust and bullet-proof (OK, maybe not bullet-proof) model. The SP-510 UZ is a mnior upgrade to the company's only 'ultra zoom' model, upping the resolution to 7MP, adding a silver paint job (which makes it look a little, erm, Kodak-like) and increasing the maximum ISO to 4000 (bet that's good then). What it doesn't do is add image stabilization, though the price is very keen. Finally there are four new entry-level cameras, the FE-170, FE-180, FE-190 and FE-200 (the latter is a very impressive little camera considering the price; 28-140mm 5x zoom, 2.5-inch screen, metal body).