The sun is out, birds are singing, and the world is once again flooded with colour after the pitiless grey misery of an English winter: our pasty white knees may even make an appearance this weekend. What better time to get our hands on the Fujifilm FinePix Z20fd, the latest in Fuji's rainbow-hued Z range of compact cameras?

The 10-megapixel Z20 follows the slidey-front template of its predecessor, the Z10. It packs a non-protruding Fujinon 3x optical zoom lens, with an aperture of f3.7-f4.2 and a 35mm equivalent focal length of 35-105mm. The screen is a 64mm (2.5-inch) LCD, showing 150,000 dots, with approximately 97 per cent coverage. Click here for more

The Olympus E-410 was our Editors' Choice of cameras last year, and the E-510 was our travelling companion around CES earlier this year. We didn't think it was possible for entry-level dSLRs to get much lighter on their feet, but Olympus has pulled a rabbit out of the hat with the E-420, a teeny-tiny dSLR that gets even nimbler with the addition of a dinky pancake lens.

The E-420 is a 10-megapixel camera that weighs a mere 440g. One-handed operation is no bother at all, and at 130 by 91 by 53mm, it practically nestles in the palm. Sure, small SLRs aren't everyone's teacup, but there's no denying the portability of this little fella. Click here for more

We'll get this out of the way at the start: this is an expensive photo frame. The £250 price tag for the Parrot Digital Frame by Andrée Putman -- yes, that's its full name -- is sure to dissuade most casual digital photographers from popping down the shops to buy one. If the price wasn't enough, you can only buy it from one place at the moment -- a concept store called Few and Far in London.

The design is courtesy of interior designer Andrée Putman, who has had a hand in the interiors of some posh hotels, mostly based on black and white checks. She made this unintentionally hilarious comment about the frame: "Storage fans will be the most vulnerable to the charms of this object, which will overcome any problems of arranging photo souvenirs". Storage fans? Really, what constitutes a 'storage fan' exactly? People with a fetish for boxes or just obsessive hoarders?  Click here for more

Cashback isn't just for Christmas, it's for the whole year round. Cashback offers on cameras are the new hotness, with manufacturers including Canon and Ricoh either extending existing offers or introducing new monetary rewards for buying their swag.

Buy a Ricoh R8 between 1 May and 12 June 2008 and you will receive £50. Very exciting. We like the R8 a lot, with its chunky retro looks backed up by loads of features and manual control.

Canon are offering an array of cashular compensation on EOS dSLRs and accessories. This ranges from £20 on a £300 macro ring light to £40 on assorted lenses.  Click here for more

The first thing we thought about the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4 was that it's huge. It's palm-sized, sure, but nearly 35mm at the thickest point. In today's size zero compact camera world, that's the sort of girth that could earn the TZ4 a trip to fat camp. But don't be put off: instead of thinking of this 8-megapixel snapper as an overfed point-and-shoot, think of it as a superslim superzoom.

The TZ4 sports a 10x optical zoom. The Leica lens dominates the front of the camera, the way things should be, in our book. Not only is it a long lens, but Leica and Pana haven't skimped at the wide end. It boasts a 28mm focal length, equivalent to a 35mm film camera. That's the sort of wide-angle performance bested only by cameras such as the TZ4's cousin, the FX35. Click here for more

Oh Panasonic, why are you so good to us? We're still swooning over the Lumix FS5 and FS20 point-and-shoot cameras, when we're seduced by the new 10.1-megapixel Lumix DMC-FX35. The slinky successor to the magnificent FX33, the FX35 boasts a super-duper wide-angle lens, provided by the old hands at Leica.

The 4x optical zoom is correspondingly larger than average, equivalent to a sultry 25mm wide angle going up to 100mm on a 35mm film camera. A snapper this svelte with such a wide angle is bound to turn a lot of heads. Click here for more

Crave may not know much about art, but we know what we like. We do know a thing or two about beauty -- heck, half the Crave team was hired on looks alone. We therefore have a bit of a thing about the Kodak EasyShare M1033 compact camera. And when we say 'a bit of a thing' we mean it in the same way that Romeo had 'a crush' on Juliet, Scarlett O'Hara 'quite fancied' Rhett Butler, and Godzilla had 'a bit of a thing' for standing on Tokyo.

We think this 10.1-megapixel point-and-shoot is gorgeous, the way a stealth bomber is deadly. It's a slick black brick that looks so mean we hesitate to turn our back on it, in case it steals our wallet. It's that much of a badass. Click here for more

Compact cameras: we love 'em. They slip in your pocket, you whip them out, you take a picture, put the picture on Facebook. Job's a good'un. But simple to operate doesn't mean you can't expect attention to detail, and Panasonic certainly knows where the devil is. So from first impressions, the 10-megapixel DMC-FS20 is shaping up to be another little Lumix belter.

Panasonic is no slouch in the design department, although the FS series sport a silver bar where the right hand grips, which hits a wrong note. At least this one is raised enough to grip, unlike the otherwise excellent FS5. Click here for more

Last week, we sent the Olympus mju 1030 SW to a watery grave -- or rather, we didn't, because it's one of Olympus' much-trumpetted range of 'ard man cameras. This week, we take a dive with the 8-megapixel Olympus mju 850 SW, which also does the tough thing -- with style. If the 1030 is crew-cut ex-SAS man Bodie, the 850 is bubble-permed ex-art student Doyle.

Where the 1030 was drop-proof to 2 metres, the 850 manages 1.5m. A camera for shorter people! Where the 1030 was waterproof to 10m, the 850 manages 3m. A camera for shallower people! Click here for more

Wi-Fi: the liberation of information or cranium-cooking catastrophe? We prefer the former, thrilling at the idea of being able to access the Internet everywhere we go, generate content on the hoof, and share our media with whomsoever we meet. So we were delighted to hear about the launch of the Nikon Coolpix S52c, a Wi-Fi-enabled compact camera. Nikon hasn't forgotten the tin-foil hat wearers among you though, also launching the offline Coolpix S52.

Both boast 9-megapixel resolution. A non-protruding Nikkor lens gives you a 3x zoom with a 35mm equivalent focal length of 38-114mm. An Expeed chip handles the image processing. Featurey goodness includes face-detecting autofocus, in-camera red-eye fix and D-Lighting. A 76mm (3-inch) screen completes the picture, built into the flowing wave-surface design. Click here for more