PMA 2004 Show Report

Welcome to the Digital Photography Review PMA 2004 show report. The Photo Marketing Association Annual Show will be held this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center between the February 12th and 15th. The annual Photo Marketing Association trade show is the photography industry's most important annual event, it's the place where the hottest digital photography products are announced.

As usual we have also included several products announced at CES 2004 (suffixed [CES]), the main reasoning behind this is that these products will join products announced at PMA 2004 to make up a manufacturer's Spring 2004 product line.

Note: This is not designed to be comprehensive report of the entire show but rather a look at the new digital photography related products announced and shown at PMA.

Exclusive: Live from the show floor

In a new and exclusive feature we are posting stand reports and images direct from the show floor. We are using a Nikon D2H and WT-1 wirless transmitter to send images directly back to the server, text review of the stand is written on location on a lightweight notebook with WiFi. This allows us to post images and text directly from the show floor with just a few minutes delay. The table below shows a list of pages uploaded / modified in reverse date order.

New Product Index

New Product Index (82 total)

Please note that all of the above products are brand new and just announced, our 'NEW' indicator simply marks those products which have been addded to this list within the last three days.

PMA 2004 Trends

• More megapixels, the race clearly isn't over
• Almost no new two megapixel digital cameras, three megapixel considered entry level
• More and more cameras with built-in flash memory, less card bundling
• Lots of compact and ultra-compact five megapixel digital cameras
• Image Stabilisation
• Two AA batteries instead of four
• PictBridge, PictBridge and more PictBridge
• Streaming movie recording (limited only by storage), although little sign of MPEG-4
• Don't forget Photokina later in the year

Our previous PMA show reports

• Click here for our final PMA 2003 report
• Click here for our final PMA 2002 report
• Click here for our final PMA 2001 report

Other PMA 2004 show reports

Here we will list other PMA 2004 show reports from around the web as soon as they appear.