Nokia's latest Lumia 925 smartphone, formed from lightweight metal instead of plastic, is aimed squarely at photographers thanks to an improved Carl-Zeiss branded lens and a set of remarkably clever image processing functions bundled in what Nokia calls its Smart Camera. If the impressive low light performance we witnessed with the 925 is anything to go by, it looks like we should take the Lumia 925 very seriously.

Nikon has given its Nikon 1 compact system cameras a big dose of credibility with today's announcement of a new 32mm portrait lens, which is equivalent to 86.4mm in full frame currency. What's really impressive is that this lens has an open aperture of f/1.2, making it the fastest (brightest) compact system camera lens on the market.

The successor to Olympus Pen E-P3 is the new E-P5 and it's not just a new Pen, it's arguably the new Olympus Micro Four Thirds flagship, combining more gorgeous retro styling blended with cutting-edge features like wifi connectivity and a fastest in class shutter.

We've had a short time using a pre-production Sony Cyber-shot HX50, officially launched earlier today. The HX50 is an interesting camera in several ways; it is the world's smallest 30x zoom compact camera, it has a 20 megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor, and it is wifi-enabled (although not with NFC). The HX50 is firmly aimed at one of the few compact camera market segments that is still growing: travel compacts. But probably one of the most interesting aspects of the HX50 is that it's industrial design was developed in the UK - by a German, Mirko Goetzen.

Panasonic has announced the DMC-G6. It doesn't replace the G5 just yet but does include some welcome goodies over its slightly older sibling like a new OLED electronic viewfinder, a better looking design, improved video options, better low light AF performance and the benefit of wifi and NFC. We've used a pre-production example and this article reports on what we found, along with lots of pictures and some image samples too.

Practically all cameras currently on sale that are designed primarily to record stills images now include video recording options. This article is aimed at anyone who has not yet explored the wonderful world of digital video. It's not an in-depth technical article but instead it is a guide on how to get started and an explanation of the technology in an an easily digestible form that should help the reader get decent results straight away.

We present our hands-on first impressions of the new Panasonic G Micro baby, the DMC-GF6, complete with wifi, NFC, a new capacitive touch tilting screen, 16MP sensor and more, including a product photo gallery and initial low light image samples to download!

Yesterday was press day at the Spring Gadget Show Live which is held every year at the Birmingham NEC. After visiting the smaller Lonodn even that was held for the first time before Christmas last year I decided to venture along to the NEC and see how the big show fared. I came back with a simple 5 minute video tour.

So here we are back at another Focus on Imaging show, which each year seems to be a surprisingly shorter and shorter time after the last! You can preview the show via our show video tour.

Olympus has produced a smaller and lighter version of its Stylus XZ-2 premium compact camera. In fact the camera is all- new with a new 5x 26-130mm (equivalent) zoom lens and a smaller CMOS sensor. But the touch screen is a resistive type and it not longer articulates and the clever XZ control ring no longer works for manual focus. We look at the benefits and compromises of the new baby XZ-10.