Liz Masoner, About.com Guide to Photography, has recently posted her review to Adobe Lightroom 2.0

Wow! Its not often I get really excited about new software but…WOW! If you want a program to organize your photos, develop them, output print packages, create slideshows, and start your web presence with a great web-based photo show this is the software for you! Unlike Photoshop, which is created for powerful editing, Lightroom 2 is for developing your images. Lightroom 2 allows you high-precision control over the color, light, tonal ranges, and even vignetting of your images. And then it integrates with Photoshop in those cases where you need pixel-based editing (such as removing a power line).

Read full review at Adobe Lightroom 2 review

Lensbabies, LLC decided decided to change company name to Lensbaby, LLC

Portland, OR (August 20, 2008) – Lensbabies, LLC, a manufacturer and marketer of unique selective focus camera lenses, announces today that the company has changed its name to Lensbaby, LLC effective immediately.

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Microsoft Live Labs introduced today Photosynth, new approach to photo sharing, to share or relive a vacation destination or explore a distant museum or landmark with your digital camera. You can use Photosynth to transform regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience. You just take a few dozen of digital photos – the number depends on the size of the place or object – with overlap between each shot, from various locations and angles. Then goto Microsoft’s Photosynth Web and generate your own synth creations…

Microsoft Photosynth

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 20 – First there was the snapshot, and then came video. Now there is Microsoft Photosynth, a new service from Microsoft Live Labs that goes far beyond how you now view, experience and share photos.

You can share or relive a vacation destination or explore a distant museum or landmark; with a digital camera and your own creativity and inspiration, you can use Photosynth to transform regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience. Anybody who sees your “synth” is put right in your shoes, sharing in the same sense of exhilaration and wonder that you did at the time, with detail, clarity and scope impossible to achieve in conventional photos or videos.

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TOKYO, August 19, 2008—Canon Inc. announced today that it has reached a new milestone by shipping its 100 millionth compact digital camera.

Since releasing the PowerShot 600 as Canon’s first compact digital camera for sale to the general public in July 1996, the company has thus far launched a total of 106 digital camera models.

Featuring a compact body and stylish design, the PowerShot S100 Digital ELPH (or Digital IXUS in other regions) was introduced in May 2000 and proved immensely popular among consumers around the world for its portability and user friendliness. All the while, Canon has consistently broadens its digital camera lineup in order to address the ever-expanding market and ensuing diversification of user needs. Read the rest of this entry »

dpreview.com have just posted new in-depth review for Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III – Canon’s ‘big daddy’ of the professional DSLR market.