Nikon has finally decided to introduce a 35mm full-frame sensor professional DSLR. Their first model the D3 comes in at 12.1 mega pixels. With 9 frames per second it's faster than the Canon 1Ds Mark III which was also just announced, but it does only have just over half as many pixels.

Now with 21.1 MP and the same full-frame sensor format, Canon continues to improve it's top-of-the-line DSLR.

DPReview has some good information on the new Canon, but not a full hands-on review...yet.

Canon has updated their wide angle 14mm lens and it looks like it could be very interesting to us architectural photographers. The widest I use now is a 16mm, but those extra couple of millimeters could come in handy for those ultra-tight bathroom shots. This was mentioned in the same press release as the 1Ds Mark III.

New "low-priced" digital back sure to push prices down for the 35mm DSLR market, and hopefully for the high-end medium format backs too.

Digital camera market pushed by low-priced "fashion" cameras and the DLSR market.

Four artists are traveling through Glacier National Park and will be expressing their journey through different artistic mediums.

Microsoft has been working for a while on a new technology for viewing still photographs in a three dimensional environment. The latest publicly available site brings some very cool pictures of the Space Shuttle online for everyone to see.

I missed this when it first came out. Apparently the JPEG group is taking a close look at the Microsoft HD Photo format. If standardized by the group it would be a big step forward for future acceptance and use by the photographic community.

Several large companies, Google and Microsoft included, are saying that some copyright warnings are intentionally making copyright statements that are beyond the scope of copyright laws. Figuring out what is fair use is at question.

The Vancouver Organizing Committee has copyright to the phrase "Vancouver 2010". Just how far are they going to go to defend their rights when faced with artistic interpretation? Will I be getting a letter because I used the phrase on this page?

DPReview.com had long been a great resource for digital camera buyers with in-depth reviews and very consistent testing and real world samples. It is the site I always suggest people visit before making a digital camera purchase. I hope the transition to Amazon.com ownership is seamless for the digital camera public.

Getty Images aquires another stock image supplier. How many companies will remain? Only time will tell.

Apparently a slowdown is coming in the digital camera market, except for Digital SLR's. After reading this story and searching for "IDC" to see who they were (I'm still not entirely sure as I couldn't find a reference to this information on the sites I did find), I found an article posted in 2005 saying the camera market would peak in 2007. Guess who made that prediction? Yep, IDC. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

The latest versions of the major Adobe products are now available in different combinations depending on your needs. Get them while they are hot.

Photoshop will now have two editions. The standard edition will just be called Photoshop CS3. Photoshop CS3 Extended adds tools for 3-D, motion graphics, image measurement and analysis. Check out the full press release below.

Adobe had many press releases today centered around Creative Suite 3. The linked article talks about the overall Creative Suite and the many variations.

Microsoft, which created the HD Photo format to replace the current JPEG standard, is submitting the specifications to a standards body. Microsoft hopes this will give the specification greater acceptance throughout the user community since it will no longer be controlled by Microsoft. Microsoft in cooperation with Adobe also has released a beta version of Photoshop CS2 and CS3 plug-ins for reading and writing in HD Photo format.