Exciting times yesterday at the Soho Hotel as the Canon Spring Collection was previewed in front of varied members of the press, canoncamerabuzz.com and our special invited guests, Jen from regularjen.com, Steve of www.machinesthatgobing.com and Benjamin from redcatco.com.

Starting off with a quick chat and coffee, Matt from 3mobilebuzz.com was keen to add a touch of star quality to proceedings – and left Jen surprised at snapping “David Hasselhoff in the stairwell of a London hotel today while [she] was on [her] way to the Canon press event”.

Once at the show, a number of cameras were up for perusal “and quite a range it was” suggested Steve – “from the diminutive Powershots party cameras to the Legria range of camcorders and a few surprising products in between”. One of these was the PowerShot D10, which Steve suggested allowed you to “amuse your friends with your ability to submerge your camera completely under water and it still works” – and so it proved, as the device was presented in a fishbowl as this shot from Benjamin shows.

Also on display was the Canon PowerShot SX200 IS featuring wide angle 12x zoom lens, which Steve suggested Canon were pitching “as the ideal travel companion, providing detailed movies tht can be shot in 720p HD at 30 fps and a full manual shooting mode”. Of the Ixus 100/95 IS, Steve gushed that it was “A great party cam”, before claiming that the Powershot A1100 IS displayed “clever technologies to make life easier.”

More information to follow tomorrow, but until then why not browse Jen and Ben’s flickr streams, or Steve’s initial post.