New digital camera, photo software, and camera accessory announcements.

Adobe Lightroom 3.6 And Camera Raw 6.6 Updates

Adobe News Software

 Adobe has announced updates for Lightroom and Camera Raw. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw 6.6 are now available for download for Windows and Mac operating systems. The updates include support for new cameras, including the Nikon J1 and V1 mirrorless cameras, the Sony NEX-7, Fujifilm X10, Canon PowerShot S100 and Panasonic’s new GX1 […]

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New – Leica V-Lux 3 24x Superzoom Camera

Leica News

 Leica has announced a new 12-megapixel, 24x superzoom digital camera. The Leica V-Lux 3 has a 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor, full HD video, a 25-600mm equivalent zoom lens, a full range of exposure modes, RAW shooting and a 3-inch tilt-swivel LCD display. The V-Lux 3 is also fast. It has a maximum burst rate of 12 […]

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Fujifilm Adds X-S1 Superzoom To X-Series Camera Line

Featured Fujifilm News Point and Shoot

 Fujifilm recently added a third camera to their new “X” line of high-end compact cameras, which includes the much-coveted X100 digital rangefinder and the new X10 premium compact. The brand new Fujifilm X-S1 superzoom camera has a 26x 24-624mm f/2.8-5.6 image-stabilized optical zoom lens and uses the same large 2/3-inch 12-megapixel EXR CMOS sensor as […]

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New Nikon SB-910 Flagship Speedlight Flash

News Nikon Studio & Lighting

 Earlier this week, Nikon announced a new flagship speedlight flash for their digital SLRs. The Nikon SB-910 has a new, easier to use control interface with a dedicated menu button. It has a zoom range of 17-200mm and automatically detects whether it’s being used with an FX or DX format camera so it can get […]

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Joby GorillaPod And New GorillaPod Micro At PhotoPlus

2011 PhotoPlus Events Featured News Photography Tips Tripods

 I visited with Joby at the annual PhotoPlus Expo this year. In case you don’t know, Joby makes the gorillapod – a line of funky, Gumby-like, ball-joint mini-tripods. The original GorillaPod was a tiny bendy tripod for pocket point-and-shoot cameras. But over the past few years they’ve expanded to cover support for digital SLRs, iPhones, […]

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Adobe Lightroom 3.6 And Camera Raw 6.6 Release Candidates

Adobe News Software

 Good news for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop users and great news for Nikon 1 mirrorless system camera early adopters – Adobe has updated Lightroom 3 and Camera Raw! Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 and Adobe Camera Raw 6.6 “Release Candidate” updates are now available for download. “Release Candidate” means the software is mostly tested and Adobe […]

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New Carl Zeiss 25mm f/2.0 Lens At PhotoPlus

2011 PhotoPlus Events Featured Lenses News Zeiss

 You probably won’t be getting one of these tasty new $1700 Zeiss 25mm f/2.0 lenses for Christmas (or Hanukah, Kwanza, Festivus or even your birthday). But you very well might be scheming to buy one for yourself. Zeiss lenses are known for snappy contrast, super accurate color and wonderful manual focus feel. They’re especially popular […]

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Panasonic Lumix GX1 – Traditional Design With High-End Features

Mirrorless News

 The new Panasonic Lumix GX1 appears to be the beginning of a new line of high-end compact Micro Four Thirds cameras. The GX1 offers serious camera performance in a traditionally-styled compact, interchangeable lens camera. The 12-megapixel GF3, announced in June, was designed for casual photographers who want to step up to the better quality of […]

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Canon Announces EOS C300 Pro Video Camera

Canon Featured Lenses News

 Last night, Canon announced two new professional, interchangeable lens video cameras. These aren’t the shoulder-mounted camcorders that most people think of when they think of high-end video. Rather, Canon’s new Cinema EOS System is based on the recent HD DSLR video revolution – digital SLRs that can also capture HD video. The main announcement was […]

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Lytro Camera – Shoot First, Focus Later

Featured News Point and Shoot

 Last week, new camera maker Lytro debuted the first production version of their revolutionary new light field camera. The Lytro camera allows you to take pictures and focus them after the picture is taken – something that has a lot of people very excited – especially major tech news outlets, gadget Web sites and grandmas […]

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Canon EOS-1D X Merges Speed, Image Quality and Video

Canon Featured News

 It’s easy to get jaded when you write about digital cameras. The lifecycle of most is about 6 months and after a while they start to blur together. But when Canon introduces a new flagship EOS-1D body – especially one that’s supposed to replace the four-year-old top dog EOS-1Ds Mark III – I expect big […]

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New Sigma 18-200mm OS Zoom Lens With FLD Glass

Lenses News Sigma

 Sigma has announced pricing and availability for their new 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 OS II lens, an 11.1x zoom featuring Sigma’s OS Optical Stabilization. The new 18-200mm OS II also adds Sigma’s top-of-the-line FLD glass (“F” Low Dispersion) to the lens, which could make it the best 18-200mm lens on the market. I love image-stabilized 18-200mm zoom […]

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The iPhone 4S – Point-And-Shoot Camera Killer?

Apple Featured iPhoneography News Point and Shoot

 Apple announced the iPhone 4S today. There’s been a lot of grumbling on the Internet about how the 4S isn’t much of an upgrade but I don’t agree at all. Although the number “5″ isn’t in the name and it looks like an iPhone 4, the guts of the new iPhone have been given a […]

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Lowepro DSLR Video Fastpack AW Camera Packs Announced

Bags Lowepro News

 Seems like everyone with a digital SLR is now a filmmaker as well as a photographer. Lowepro hasn’t missed this development and they’ve made a few tweaks to their “top-selling and award-winning” Fastpack camera packs and come up with their new DSLR Video Fastpack AW series. Besides padded storage space for your HD digital SLR […]

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Tenba Adds Top Load And Messenger Camera Bags To Their Discovery Line

Bags News

 Looking for a lightweight, outdoor-friendly case for your digital SLR gear? Tenba just added two new camera bags to the Discovery line they launched earlier this year: the Top Load and the Photo/Laptop Messenger. The Tenba Discovery Top Load is designed to carry a prosumer digital SLR (Canon EOS 5D, Nikon D7000, Olympus E-5, etc.) […]

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