Tenba has announced the new Top Load and Photo/Laptop Messenger camera bags of the popular Discovery collection that has been designed to support active outdoor photographers. The Discovery Top Load is a clean and simple carrying solution for a single DSLR camera body with a mid-size zoom lens such as a Canon 5D or Nikon D700 with a zoom lens up to 5″ long e.g. 24-70mm f/2.8, while the Discovery Messenger fits a DSLR camera body with 2-3 lenses and accessories, plus a tablet or laptop up to 13 inches. The Discovery Top Load camera bags allow the photographer to secure their bare essentials camera kit, while the Discovery Messenger camera bags is designed for photographer who want a slightly larger camera system, but still want comfort and less weight. The new Discovery Top Load and Messenger bags are available now with estimated retail price start from $69.95 to $109.95. For more info please visit Tenba site or see the Latest Price Info at Amazon.com.

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onOne Software, Inc. announced the Photo Essentials 4 software for Adobe Photoshop Elements. It has five tools for correct color, remove and replace backgrounds, add photographic effects, add frames, edges and borders, and enlarge photos that easy for use by users. The tools allow the photographers to increase their images quality quickly and easily in Photoshop Elements. These five tools are a Color correction, Removes backgrounds, Picture effects, Picture frame, and Picture enlargement. For more info and download the software please go to Photo Essentials 4 site.

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Rollei relased the new Flexipod 300 with smartphone adapter that also suitable for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. It is a tripod that has compact size approx. 285 x 50 x 50 mm and universal practicality with three-legged design for more compact and suit to use with Digital SLR cameras or even minicamcorders. It offers rubber tripod feature which allow to be bent and rotated up to 360 degrees make the tripod more flexible for use. The Rollei Flexipod 300 use a mini spirit level to align the tripod perfectly and non-slip rubber feet to provide a secure footing, particularly on horizontal surfaces, such as in the outdoors condition.

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WnSoft has released PixBuilder Studio 2.0 software for images editing. It is a free software for digital photo editing, images processing, and resizing that has many professional quality functions. The software offers tools for color management functions such as brightness/contrast management, color balance, and levels manipulation. In addition, the PixBuilder Studio 2.0 allow users to use graphic program such as Layers concept, multi-step undo, gradients and masks support, and text layers for image processing and creating illustration. It also support you for drawing complex raster shapes and effects or use the built-in shapes drawing tool that supported by management functions. The PixBuilder Studio 2.0 is a perfect software for photos editing solution. Visit PixBuilder Studio 2.0 website for Free download Windows software.

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Nikon has released the my Picturetown Pad app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The app allows users to enjoy using the photo sharing, posting, and management features in Nikon’s my Picturetown including Facebook and Twitter. my Picturetown Pad also has a Motion Snapshot function to supports book view and a map view that utilizes information recorded with cameras equipped with a GPS function. You can download the my Picturetown Pad now at iTunes.

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Adva-Soft has unveiled the TouchRetouch version 3.0 app for Android. This software allow you to remove unwanted objects from your photos with fast and easy using your finger. As a photo editing software, it offers a new user interface, a high-performance retouching algorithm, support for full-resolution images, a clone stamp for advanced retouching, and more that easy to photo editing than ever. Get the TouchRetouch 3.0 at Android Market.

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Fujifilm has announced the 2012 Fujifilm Student Photography Awards which open to all students aged 16 or over undertaking full or part-time professional photographic training, or full or part-time graphic design training of which photography is a major part at a UK based college or university. You can submit your photograph with theme of ‘Extreme’ that can encompasses many things such as Sports, action, adrenalin, weather, wealth, poverty, heat, cold, passion, and more to capture the meaning of that word in a single image. The winner will win: £200 worth of Fujifilm film, a professionally produced portfolio courtesy of Metroprint, a Trophy and the title ‘Fujifilm Student Photographer of the Year 2012′. The Fujifilm Student Awards 2012 is now open for submissions until the closing date of February 29, 2012. For more information go to the website of “Fujifilm Student Awards 2012″.

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Leica has launched a special edition digital compact camera, it is the Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium. The camera comes with the same technical specifications as the standard D-Lux 5 model such as a fast a 24-90mm equivalent zoom lens that suitable for a wide variety of conditions include 1/1.63” CCD image sensor with a resolution of 10.1 megapixels to produces images with rich color, superb sharpness and high contrast. It offers an 1,280 x 720 pixel HD movie recording feature with 3-inch LCD screen equipped with An Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software which provides photographers to develop RAW image files. The Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium special edition will be available in the UK at the end of October 2011.

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Lastolite has released new Strobo Kit. The Strobo kit is designed more compact and simple to use with creative light modifying system for battery operated flashguns. It comes in two versions: one which fits directly onto a flashgun and the other which includes the highly successful Ezybox Hotshoe Plate. There are an Optional Barn Doors that also available for both kits. Check Availability at Amazon.com.

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Sigma just launched a new lens for Nikon cameras with 11.1x high zoom ratio lens designed especially for digital SLR cameras to offers a broad shooting range from wide angle to telephoto which is ideal for travel photography. The Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM is the successor to the SIGMA 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC OS/ HSM which was launched in June 2007.

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