Panasonic has just announced their new 6 megapixel, 12x optical zoom camera Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7. DPReview have published a great hands-on preview of this new camera. No word on availability or pricing yet. Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 – preview [DPreview.com]

Forget about having bad resolution when you’re taking pictures with your cellphone. The new cellphone Samsung B500 has a high resolution camera with 7.7 megapixels plus a 3x optical zoom. Nice! Samsung B500 [Slashphone] via [Engadget]

You can’t take pictures like this with at home, but if you join the High-Speed Imaging at Edgerton center you can. The photos taken by the students are absolutely awesome. Bullet Pictures – 2003 [web.mit.edu] Bullet Pictures – 2004 [web.mit.edu] Bullet Pictures – 2005 [web.mit.edu] via [Me, my Coke, and I]

Simon Joinson over at dpreview.com has just published the review of Kodaks 8 megapixel camera P880. “In conclusion then, the P880 is well worth consideration if you want a true wide angle zoom built into your camera, and though it’s not going to replace a digital SLR (despite the implication in Kodak’s publicity materials), and [...]

The norwegian site digit.no have got their hands on a pretty big scoop when they unveiled the new Samsung GX-1S. If you look into the specification it seems to be a remake of the Pentax *ist DS2, which means 6.1 megapixel, 8fps burst mode (JPEG) and 2.8fps when shooting RAW (Engadget has got this fact [...]

One of the best reviews of the Nikon D200 I’ve seen so far got published today by the Norwegian photographer Bjørn Rørslett. If you want an in-depth review, check this one out. “You get an image quality within a hair’s width of the D2X, Nikon’s current digital flagship. In some aspects the D200 performs even [...]

The Swedish photographer Magnus Gagnelid sent us a tip about the recently published 20-minute video tutorial of Adobe Labs new photo software Adobe Lightroom: Lightroom Beta 1 overview video [labs.macromedia.com] The software is currently launched as a public beta, which basically means that everyone can download it and try it out (currently only available for [...]

I think this was kind of a shock for many of us – everybody saw this coming, but that it would happen so fast was quite a surprise. “As a result of the new strategy Nikon will discontinue production of all lenses for large format cameras and enlarging lenses with sales of these products ceasing [...]

Hasselblad has announced a brand new 39 megapixel DSLR camera which will be rolled out through Hasselblad’s national subsidiaries and channel partners in Q1 2006.

Today Panasonic introduced the DMC-LS2 – a simple, affordable 5-megapixel point and shoot camera. Retail price will be $199.95 when it comes out in March. More pictures inside.