Superb build quality and performance make this a worthwhile upgrade for serious amateurs.

Great image quality and plenty of enthusiast features for a very reasonable price

Canon’s SLR fails to make the enormous splash of its predecessors, but it’s still a great camera in its own right.

Running costs are high, but with a high resolution and superb performance, it’s a groundbreaking product.

High performance with a matching price tag.

Canon’s first hard disk-based AVCHD camcorder gets it mostly right, with a good level of features and the best image quality we’ve yet seen from the format.

Canon's reign over the compact digital camera market looks set to continue with this offering.

The MP500 is a great all-rounder. It’s capable of excellent print quality at high speeds, plus CD printing, has an automatic duplex module and a tempting price.

The scanner is the only minor weakness in an otherwise near perfect home all-in-one

More expensive than its direct competition, but thanks to its brilliant features the D80 is money well spent.

An expensive camera, but one offering superb image quality, features and handling

Packed with features like network capability and transparency scanning, it also has the best scanner by far, with great print quality too.

Forget budget DSLR, this is for serious photography. Extravagant in almost every way, the D700 is superbly responsive and produces stunning images

It may not be a looker, but in all other respects this Panasonic is a stunning camera

Great real-time performance, particularly with high definition footage. But the EDIUS Pro software still needs a few more features to usurp the competition.