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(ENDED) Scott Kelby's Live Adobe Interview and Sneak Peek starts at 4pm NYC time

Between 4pm and 5pm New York City time today, Scott Kelby had a live interview and sneak peek with Adobe's Tom Hogarty today May-1-2013. It was a live broadcast at Kelby's The Grid website or directly on UStream.

If you missed it, it should become available for everyone else to view within 24 hours at the The Grid website and the Kelby's Grid iTunes page.

New Wacom Cintiq 22HD graphics/drawing tablet with multi-touch announced

Touch screens are making their way into more things, including graphics aka drawing tablets for digital artists and retouchers. Wacom announces the new Cintiq 22HD, model DTH2200, with a multi touch display. As the model name suggests, this is a "22-inch class" display. "Class" typically means rounded up when measuring screen size :) Please note this is wired (USB) device, it is not a tablet like an iPad, so you can't be running out and about with it!

Press release parade at Engadget and Photography Blog and Imaging Resource and /Gear and Fotointern.ch et al.

The press release price is $2,500. This price is premium of $500 over the non-touch model already in existence. Amazon has a price of $2,800 for the touch model with a 2-4 weeks release estimate, but it is not unusual for initial listing prices to be off until they get corrected.

Speaking of graphics tablets, the previous non-Touch model was briefly compared to the Modbook Pro (speed-readers, Modbook, not Macbook!) at Tech Crunch Gear.

Also speaking of graphics tablet, at the other end of the Wacom spectrum, the Wacom Bamboo Capture Pen and Touch Tablet (CTH470) is currently on sale for $73 with free shipping.

Legal News: Second Circuit sides with remixer of a photograph

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals, surprisingly perhaps, handed the remixer of a photograph in the on-going Patrick Cariou vs Richard Price case a victory. Richard Prince re-mixed from Cariou's photography book "Yes Rasta". The latest updates in the story are featured at Paid Content and Art In American and/via The Verge.

Zeiss Naming Disaster: they call their Mirrorless Lenses "Touits"

This is not a late April Fools Day joke! Zeiss has officially given a name to their mirrorless APS-C prime lens line for the Sony NEX e-mount and the Fuji X System. They call them "Touit". The Zeiss blog goes on in detail to explain how they selected this name.

Apparently none of the people at Zeiss realized the most obvious thing about this name, it's a "tweet". And now the harsh reality is hitting them in the face. You don't want your prestigious lenses to be associated with ephemeral 140-character "touits" ;-) Out of touch with the modern world!

This of course means absolutely nothing as far as the image quality of these upcoming lenses is concerned.

Via dpreview et al.

Catching up with Dxomark Lab Tests: Sony A58, NEX-3N, Nikon A, Samsung EX2f, etc

Dxomark is publishing more camera and lens lab evaluations these days and we finally caught up with their camera reviews of the last two months that were not previously mentioned in the Camera Reviews Stream under the Dxomark category.

Guest Blogging Possibilities: Unconventional or Unusual or Counter or Minority or Under-Represented Opinions

We all at times jump on bandwagons or go with the flow, and before you know it, some things become status quo or are accepted as conventional wisdom without getting thoroughly thought through. So with this new experiment, we are opening the floor for guest-blogging possibilities for people who want to express unconventional or unusual or counter or minority or under-represented opinions. On topics related to camera gear and photography.

Please feel free to use the online contact form if interested.

This is not a general-purpose guest-blogging request, so please don't send emails about posts like "ten tips for great portraits in spring" or "how to become a professional in seven simple steps". There are thousands of posts on these already! This particular call for guest-blogging posts is for topics and opinions that are not getting enough attention.

Impact review: Fuji X20 at dpreview

Dpreview is getting review-busy these days with a new completed review! It is a 16-pager on the Fuji X20. As usual, we won't spill the beans here, but if you are in a hurry or running out of battery, you can jump to the conclusions before jumping to conclusions. Did it get an Olympic medal or was it referred to the alchemists?

The review is discussed in the dpreview comments and dpreview Fuji forum.

For more opinions on the camera, check the list of completed Fuji X20 reviews (12 as of the time of writing).

The Fuji X20 is steadily in-stock in silver or black for $600 at Amazon et al [see stock status page for more].

Speaking of Fuji X-Primes, the X100S remains in pre-order state but there is one small change, the estimate at B&H Photo is "usually ships in 2-4 weeks". As of the time of writing, there are 15 completed Fuji X100S reviews.

New UK Law is a potential disaster for photographers of all levels (orphan works right grabs)

A new law by the UK government is a potential disaster for photographers as it gives a generous "orphan works" permission for exploitation of photography for commercial work assuming one performs a "diligent search" and cannot find the owner of the pictures. With so many online services stripping away metadata from pictures, people can use the "diligent search" excuse as a mass rights grab.

The story is covered at The Register. Well-known British photographer David Bailey has written letters to Members of Parliament. Via Techmeme and Mediaglazer.

Over 52,000 pictures in the Readers Flickr Pool

We have a new milestone in the Readers's Flickr Pool, over 52,000 pictures submitted. Thanks to everyone for participating and sharing your pictures! The Readers Flickr Pool is a place where photographers of all experience levels and all camera types can share their pictures. Everyone is welcome to join and submit up to five pictures per day. This is not an 18+ group, so please do not submit adult-themed pictures.

As usual, we feature the milestone picture, picture #52,000, a black and white Untitled by Roni G. taken with the Ricoh GXR and the GR A12 50mm f2.5 sensor+lens block.

Hasselblad Officially Ends The V System

A sad-news press-release from Hasselblad revealed that the company is ending the V system by ending production of the last remaining camera in the system.

Press release parade at Amateur Photographer UK and British Journal of Photography and ePhotozine and Fotointern.ch...

A discussion of the news has just began at the GetDPI Medium format forums and the Fred Miranda Alternative forums.

News of this type will undoubtedly be greatly disappointing to fans of this system. Some may even wonder if Hasselblad could have saved or at least prolonged its life had it not wasted time and resources on foolish things like the NEX "Lunar", a name so close to Lunacy, it is probably not a coincidence :)

New Dxomark Lab in Seattle allows for the Reviewing of Giant Lenses

The new Dxomark-dpreview lens test lab in Seattle has an additional benefit according to Dxomark, it allows for the reviewing of those giant bazooka giant big lenses! You can see a picture of the new lab test set-up using the Sony 500mm f4 SLR lens at its Dxomark review page. A pixel-peeping fantasy room! Shortly after that review, Dxomark also published their review of the Canon 400mm f2.8L IS II.

Speaking of lens reviews, we had a mini-catch-up-a-thon on Dxomark lens reviews at the Lens Reviews stream. A total of nine eight lens reviews were added. The Lens Reviews stream does not have a By-Reviewer category like the Camera Reviews stream, so we put them on the front page since that's the only way for people to find them. As new reviews come out, they will drift off the front page, so if you want to see them all at the same page, the time to check them out is now!

Mark Your Calendars: Scott Kelby plans Live Interview with Adobe along with Sneak Peek of what they are working on

Photoshop super guru Scott Kelby managed to get Adobe to agree to be grilled live on the internets by Scott Kelby and also give the world an exclusive sneak peek on what Adobe is working on. Tom Hogarty is the Adobe representative chosen for this task. The event will happen live on Wednesday May 1st in 2013 at 4pm New York City time (eastern time). The live event will take place at Kelby's The Grid show. The teaser about the event can be found at the Photoshop Insider blog and also YouTube-embedded right below (95-second video)...

Attention Seeking Wars: Panasonic XS1 P&S camera gets ten different designs

Panasonic announced the XS1 point and shoot digital camera back at CES 2013. But now they added some more excitement to it, ten different designs!

As the P&S entry-level digital cameras get more squeezed from all directions, it is interesting to see that camera manufacturers are at least trying to differentiate them in the hopes of grabbing the attention and the interest of the mythical average consumer.

Press release parade at Engadget and dpreview and Akihabara and Panasonica.

(ENDED) Daily Deal: Nikon J2 with 10-30mm and bonus items for $350 (ends Mon 3am ET)

This daily special expired... For other specials that went live the last few hours, check the Camera Deals blog... Original post after the jump for reference only...

Opinion Soup (distilled edition): MTF Charts, Mirrorless, Full Frame, APS-C, Compacts, Edu/DIY, Biz, Inspiration, etc

All apologies to fans of the Photography Soup for falling behind by two months in between updates. Due to the high volume of posts produced by the internets in 60 days, this edition is not a comprehensive but a distilled edition. It took us two full days to catch up with the reviews plus one more day to recover, so we simply don't have the time + energy to repeat the same exercise for Opinions!

Having said that, if you wrote or read any photography-related opinions during the last two months that you believe more people should read, then please feel free to let us know using the online contact form.

Camera Gear
+ the trouble with compacts by Ming Thein
+ seven myths about the need for full frame camera bodies at Photofocus
+ no more reason left for buying an APS-C DSLR? at Qlakk
+ APS-C emerges as the new "full frame quality" and the sagging momentum of M43rds at digLloyd (free to read)
+ the death of the SLR by Canon Blogger
+ mirrorless shipments down year to year at Sans Mirror
+ lots of things by Thom Hogan (no permalinks)
+ 16 digital cameras that changed the world at What Digital Camera? (I can see floppy disks from my house!)
+ Nikon V1 complete transformation from diss to un-diss at Sound Image Plus (start reading from the bottom - reverse chronological order with blogs)
+ the evil of Dxomark at Foto Biz
+ why I hate EVFs by Luminous at Imaging Resource
+ how I busted a thief who tried to sell my camera on Craigslist at Peta Pixel CSI

Edu and DIY
+ How To Read MTF charts at Photography Life
+ on Lens Testing and Imatest numbers at Lens Rentals
+ DX or FX for Sports and Wildlife? at Photography Life
+ digitizing your film using your DSLR at Peta Pixel
+ Making sense of Camera Sensors (for Beginners to Intermediate) at Digital Camera HQ
+ memory card hygiene at TOP
+ tips for photographers with allergies at The Allergic Photographer
+ podcast: on photo-blogging, 69 minutes long at PhotoNetCast

Creativity and Inspiration
+ Seeing Part #1 and Part #2 by Ming Thein
+ stop creating barriers between you and the photos you want to take at Chase Jarvis
+ how the print medium matters by Ctein at TOP
+ Craig Litten on getting big results with small cameras at Mike Kobal
+ on stealing images at SLR Lounge
+ what if you couldn't chimp or edit? at F/Stoppers
+ learning to say no at F/Stoppers

Software, Apps, Photo Sharing, Socialist Media
+ top ten free online editors at ePhotozine
+ five myths about the Creative Cloud by Adobe's Terry L. White
+ why use RAW? at M43 Photo
+ why I stopped using Facebook events at Stuck In Customs

Business and Legal
+ why I quit Getty Images and I'm moving to Stocksy at Thomas Hawk
+ the changing magazine business by Nick Rains at Luminous Landscape
+ on proposed Vermont legislation that would make it illegal to photograph anyone without consent at Peta Pixel (do they have a paparazzi problem in Vermont? all those celebrities and movie stars prancing in the snow?)
+ the newsonomics of paywalls at Nieman Lab (via APE)
+ on photographers, writers and trademarks at TOP
+ tips on invoicing for freelance photographers (UK) at ePhotozine
+ how to sell when you hate selling (video) at Black Star Rising

A Day at the Improv
+ the thread from Fuji at Fake Chuck Westfall (not for sensitive readers)