CF Association booth report posted!

16:20 EST - On the CompactFlash Association's booth at the 2008 Photo Marketing Association tradeshow, the new connectors and packaging for a new variant of the CompactFlash card were on display.

The CF Association is currently working on a specification dubbed "CFast", which is essentially a CompactFlash card with revised connectors and packaging, and based around the SATA (Serial ATA) inferface. The new cards will not be able to fit into a standard CF slot, however they should offer the potential for significant throughput increases over traditional CF cards. To see what information the... (More)

Casio booth report posted!

15:59 EST - Rather than doing so at PMA, Casio made its announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January.

The company launched a total of five new digital camera models, and all were on display on the company's PMA 2008 booth. This includes what we have to say is among the most interesting models launched so far this year, the Casio EXILIM Pro EX-F1. The company's other recent announcements were the EXILIM Card EX-S10, and EXILIM Zoom EX-Z80, EX-Z100, and EX-Z200. For more on all of these products, read... (More)

General Imaging booth report posted!

15:30 EST - A year ago, General Imaging Co. made its debut at the Photo Marketing Association tradeshow, announcing eight digital cameras and one printer to be retailed under the General Electric brandname.

A year later, and General Imaging has launched nine new cameras, although only eight were actually on display at the company's PMA 2008 booth. All of the new models are closely related to existing GE-branded digicams, but with some tweaks to the specifications (and some new features for the 2008 model year, such as smile / blink detection). To see what's new since last year, read our General Imaging... (More)

Pasini Reports Awards Second Annual Envy Awards!

00:27 EST - It's true, you can exhale now. We've finally awarded an Envy or two....

It's official. With the awarding of our second annual Envy Awards (and a Parting Shots photo gallery of 91 images) we've posted our final Pasini Report for PMA 2008. We've even upgraded the usual presentation with a real live virtual presenter this year (but don't get used to it). Just in case you missed one or two, here's the full list: Tuesday An Eponymous Peek at PMA 2008 Wednesday Sneak Peek... (More)

Samsung booth report posted!

21:25 EST - Next up in our tour of this year's Photo Marketing Association tradeshow booths is Korea's Samsung Techwin Co. Ltd.

Samsung made the majority of its announcements a couple of weeks before the PMA show, having opted to launch its cameras at the Consumer Electronics Show. The company still had a fair selection of these latest camera models on display, even if they weren't technically announced at PMA though. Samsung has already announced a mind-boggling thirteen new digital cameras so far this year, including one... (More)

Olympus announced a whopping ten new digital cameras in the runup to the show - six of them in its Stylus series, and four in the FE-series. The company also launched a new variant of its xD-Picture Card flash memory format, the xD-Picture Card Type M+. For more on Olympus' PMA 2008 presence, read our Olympus booth report! (More)

Fujifilm booth report posted!

03:13 EST - Our booth reports continue with a look at Fujifilm's massive booth, packed with everything from tiny ultra-compact cameras to photo lab equipment.

Fuji launched some seventeen products in the runup to the Photo Marketing Association tradeshow, including some eight new digital cameras. Among their number is the FinePix S100FS, probably one of the more interesting fixed-lens camera announcements at the show this year. Our Fujifilm booth report contains 33 captioned images and a summary of what's on display at the company's booth this year. For... (More)

Canon booth report posted!

22:37 EST - Somewhat behind schedule due to an endless succession of somewhat-related PC problems for News Editor Mike Tomkins, our booth report section is now live.

We've kicked things off with a tour of Canon Inc.'s booth, and the many new products it holds... The report contains a total of 34 images, among which you'll find coverage of 21 new products announced by Canon at the Photo Marketing Association tradeshow (or in some cases, at the Consumer Electronics Show just a couple of weeks earlier). For the many readers who've been waiting patiently for the booth... (More)