Recently announced by Ricoh, the new Capilo R5 Digital Camera features a 7.1x optical wide zoom lens (28-200 mm in 35 mm camera format) which is the highest zoom in the compact class (among compact digital cameras of less than 150g as of 23 August 2006) 

Samsung Cameras is bringing a new vision to the digital compact camera market with the NV Series. Consisting of three cameras, the NV7 OPS, NV10 and NV3, the NV Series was developed following a two year consumer research study to gain insight into the lifestyle and needs of consumers and their picture-taking interests.