Ken Rockwell speculates a new Nikon D40 for the trade show in Tokyo on March 26th.

http://www.photoimagingexpo.com/01_01.html

Probably the Canon 450d successor will come on March 25th.

Is that the right time for Olympus to show a new DSLR? What about Panasonic?

Where is the megainnovativesupercool sensor with “Wide Dynamic Range” of 140dB from Panasonic? Announced last year it disappeared from the world. It is rare to see real evolution (if not revolution) in sensor development. Fuji was the latest comany showing something new in this aspect but I believe more surprises will come out next year. So I was wondering what happened to this Panasonic sensor. Someone knows something? Come on Panasonic, tell us something!

Here the last year announcement:

http://panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en080205-2/en080205-2.html

We know a compact m4/3 will come from Olympus but Panasonic is not sleeping here! Ichiro Kitao general manager at Panasonic’s Products Planning Group, said: ‘It is one of the choices – a more entry-level piece than the G1 or a step up piece…In the coming years we would like to expand our G Micro [Four Thirds] system.’

source: http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk

P.s: I like the mockup, this is exactly what I want!