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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)

Impact review: Nikon D7100 at dpreview

The Nikon D7100 is hoping to be as successful as its highly influential predecessor, the D7000. But we are in a different market now, it's raining new camera mounts left and right, and things are shifting and changing. But that's another story for another day.

With that as an almost unnecessarily preface, the Nikon D7100 has received one of its most high profile reviews yesterday, a 25-pager at dpreview. If you are in a hurry or running out of battery, you can jump to the conclusions before jumping to conclusions. Did it get any Olympic medals or was it referred to the alchemists? We won't spill the beans here :)

The review is discussed vigorously in the dpreview comments along with the dpreview Nikon forums (thread #1 and thread #2).

The Nikon D7100 is steadily in-stock at multiple authorized dealers for $1200 body only and $1500 w/18-105 including Amazon and OneCall. More via the Stock Status mini site.

Speaking of reviews, more reviews came out since our previous update, including the Nikon A and Fuji X20 - see them at the just-refreshed Camera Reviews stream (easy to remember url noisyreviews.com)

Curiosity factor: Samyang 24mm f3.5 Tilt Shift lens review

Samyang is pushing the envelope on the value frontier and giving the traditional lens manufacturers a run for their money, at least with some of their lenses. One new area where they apparently want to make in-roads is tilt-shift lenses. And they are offering them at unusual prices, a hair under $1000.

We are talking about their new 24mm f3.5 Tilt Shift SLR lens which just got reviewed by Fotopolis.pl in a 14-page post. You can also read it computer-translated. Downloadable JPEGs are available on page #14 of their review.

And this new lens is very close to being released. B&H Photo has a May 2nd estimate for the Rokinon branded flavors and a May 15th estimate for the Samyang branded ones. The price is $1000 and available in the SLR mounts of Canon, Nikon and Sony-Minolta.

For more lens reviews, check the Lens Reviews stream.

New Camera Announcement: Fuji JZ700 with 8x optical and CMOS sensor

Friday camera announcements are rare but still they happen once in a while. Yesterday was once-in-a-while as Fuji announced the new JZ700 Finepix point and shoot digital camera with a 14mp 1/2.3" CMOS sensor and a 8x optical zoom lens along with a variety of features and modes to entice the mythical average consumer, such as 200fps video, 360 panoramas, 1080p video, multiple delicious colors, etc.

Press release parade at Engadget and ePhotozine and Photography Blog and Fuji herself.

The Big Update is complete: 175 new cameras reviews and 82 new lens reviews are waiting for YOU!

All apologies for falling behind on the Camera and Lens review streams! But we made amends of sorts. After two full days of doing nothing but these, we finally caught up with the last 60 days of completed reviews. We added a total of 175 new camera reviews covering only interchangeable lens cameras and compacts with RAW! We also added 82 new lens reviews!

You can check the new reviews by sequentially going through the index pages at the Camera Reviews stream and Lens Reviews stream mini-sites, or use the handy links included below for your convenience.

We are providing multiple ways for you to dig through the new reviews, so you can use whatever is more convenient for your interests!

Camera Reviews
+ 175 new completed camera reviews added
+ DSLR/iLCs or compacts with RAW only (plus one review of the Nikon Android S800c)
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Lens Reviews
+ 82 new completed lens reviews added
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Check Camera Reviews By Sensor Size
+ Cameras with 35mm Full Frame sensors
+ Cameras with APS-C sensors
+ Cameras with 43/M43 sensors
+ Cameras with 1" sensors
+ Cameras with 2/3" sensors
+ Cameras with 1/1.x" sensors
+ Cameras with 1/2.x" sensors

Canon
+ Canon DSLR reviews
+ Canon Mirrorless camera reviews
+ all Canon camera reviews that we track
+ all Canon SLR lens reviews
+ all Canon lens reviews

Nikon
+ Nikon DSLR reviews
+ Nikon CX 1-System camera reviews
+ all Nikon camera reviews that we track
+ all Nikon SLR lens reviews
+ all Nikon lens reviews

Sony
+ Sony Alpha DSLR reviews
+ Sony NEX E-mount camera reviews
+ all Sony camera reviews that we track
+ Alpha Minolta Maxxum Dyxum SLR Lens reviews
+ NEX E-mount Lens reviews
+ all Sony lens reviews

Pentax
+ Pentax K-mount DSLRs and iLCs (iLCs = K-01)
+ Pentax Q-mount Camera Reviews
+ all Pentax Camera reviews that we track
+ K-mount Lens Reviews
+ all Pentax lens reviews

Micro Four Thirds
+ Olympus and Panasonic M43rds Camera reviews
+ Four Thirds Camera Reviews (there was one!)
+ all Olympus Camera Reviews that we track
+ all Panasonic Camera Reviews that we track
+ Micro Four Thirds Lens Reviews
+ Olympus Lens Reviews and Panasonic Lens Reviews

Fuji
+ Fuji X System Camera Reviews
+ all Fuji camera reviews that we track
+ due to technical reasons we don't have links to Fuji Lens Reviews (we ran out of category tags at the lens reviews blog). You can find them in the overflowing Other category (all lenses without tags)

Leica and M-mount
+ M mount Camera Reviews
+ all Leica Camera Reviews that we track
+ all M-mount lens reviews
+ all Leica lens reviews

Samsung
+ Samsung NX-mount Camera Reviews
+ all Samsung Camera Reviews that we track
+ Samsung NX mount Lens Reviews
+ all Samsung Lens Reviews

Sigma
+ all Foveon-based Camera Reviews
+ all Sigma Camera Reviews - we track them all since they all have RAW
+ all Sigma lens reviews

Other Lens Makers
+ Tamron Lens Reviews
+ Tokina Lens Reviews
+ Samyang Lens Reviews (all Samyang brands)
+ Zeiss Lens Reviews

Errors, Missing Reviews, Corrections, Additions, Etc
Dxomark reviews will be added separately during the weekend and we will have our customary link-a-thon comparison-a-thons if there are any comparisons that produce interesting-enough results. Also, reviewers without reliable or working RSS feeds are not included and will have to be added later on.

With an endeavor of this kind, there are bound to be errors, omissions, typos, mis-categorizations, format errors and the like. If you see an error/typo/mistake/confusion, it means we are not aware of it, so please let us know so we can fix it! You can leave comments in this post or the blog-post where you see the error or use the online contact form or let us know on twitter.

(COMPLETE) Camera and Lens Reviews Streams update in progress

This was a live-blog of the Big Update. The Big Update is complete. We posted a new detailed post with lots of helpful links to help you find the new reviews that you are interested in (by camera brand, mount, sensor-size, etc).

The live-blog updates are archived below after the jump but unless you are bored, there's nothing particularly exciting after the jump... The details on the 250+ new reviews can be found in the new detailed post.

In-stock Curiosity: HTC One 4G (AT&T) smartphone with Ultrapixels

The curiosity factor HTC One 4G smartphone with its Ultrapixel technology is now in-stock and shipping for $650 with free 2-day shipping without a contract/service-plan at Amazon by Amazon in the AT&T flavor. If you are willing to sign a 2-year contract with AT&T, the phone price drops to $150.

This Ultrapixel phone was announced in mid February 2013.

Sony announces new digital recording all-weather binoculars with 20mp stills and $2K price

Continuing with the zoom zoom theme, Sony also announced a new pair of binoculars, the all-weather DEV-50V with a starting price of $2,000. These use dual 1/3.91" Exmor R CMOS sensors to go with the dual Sony G lenses. They can record 20 megapixel stills. The magnification range is 0.8x to 12x, with more reach with digital zoom turned on. They have other goodies as well to partially justify the price, 3D recording, dual XGA OLED viewfinders, optical Steady Shot image stabilization, 1080p video in 2D or 3D, diopter adjustment, etc.

Press release parade at Engadget and Ubergizmo and Sony Europe.

New Sony Cybershot HX50v 30x compact superzoom with multi interface shoe

We have another new digital camera announcement! This one comes from one of Panasonic's consumer electronics rivals, it is the new Sony Cybershot HX50v, a compact superzoom with a 30x optical zoom ratio (around 24-720mm eq), a 20mp 1/2.x" backlit CMOS sensor, and a multi interface shoe which can be used for the mounting of a hot shoe or an EVF or a microphone. The camera has the usual superzoom goodies, Wi-Fi, G.P.S, and such. The starting price will be $450 (which I am sure will eventually come down to earth).

Hands-on reports with the new HX50v can be found at Pocket Lint and What Digital Camera? and Photography Blog with lots of camera body pictures and dpnow now.

Sample pictures, taken with a pre-production camera, 42 JPEGs at Photography Blog. [samples should be available soon]

Press release parade at dpreview and ePhotozine and DCR and dpnow now and Imaging Resource and CNet and Sony Europe.