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.
| Company / Stand / Products | Last updated |
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
Other PMA 2004 show reports
Here we will list other PMA 2004 show reports from around the web as
soon as they appear.
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