If you are even considering making money from photography, even as a small side business, then you need to read Dane Sanders’ Fast Track Photographer. Dane was featured on a recent podcast and shared some real insight into the market and where we are heading.

Dane’s book, Fast Track Photographer, is designed to help you find yourself and where you fit into the market. Along with the book is the pDNA Assesement which is a tool to help you figure out your strengths and weaknesses and provides useful guides for improvement.

Lightroom 2.2 is now available on Adobe.com. (Mac, Win) The release includes new camera support for the following models:

* Canon EOS 5D Mark II
* Canon PowerShot G10
* Panasonic DMC-G1**
* Panasonic DMC-FX150**
* Panasonic DMC-FZ28**
* Panasonic DMC-LX3**
* Leica D-LUX 4**

While many of us have been waiting for the originally announced products from last year, we were a little surprised that what we were expecting was killed off, however, Kevin and the guys have created a completely new ground-up redesign that now creates the most scalable feature-rich wireless remote system ever designed.

Time to change out the poll and review the results of the last one. Our last poll was about how many photos do you take per week and the numbers were actually very interesting.

* 23% shoot 101 – 250 images per week
That is a lot of people shooting a lot of images, good for you! Keep it up and post some in the forums

Twitter is a cool tool that people use to post quick little messages about “what am I doing right now”, and no, if you haven’t checked it out it is not full of “I am eating a sandwich” or “Going to the bathroom”. We use twitter here at Camera Dojo to let people follow what we are working on. When a new gadget comes into the studio we will post a “tweet” about it so you will know to expect a review coming soon.

Just in time for the holidays, onOne Software is offering $100 off Plug-in Suite 4.2, a collection of 6 award-winning Photoshop plug-ins that solve 6 of the most common problems photographers deal with in Photoshop. In addition to the $100 discount, customers who take advantage of this limited time offer will receive a free Photoshop CS4 Training DVD from Kelby Training – The Photoshop CS4 Power Session with Matt Kloskowski.

If you ever need to scale an image up you have probably been unhappy with the results. Genuine Fractals is the leading software package available for resizing images with incredible accuracy. You will simply be amazed at what it can do. Today, OnOne Software as released it’s latest version, Genuine Fractals 6.

David Hobby (http://strobist.com) has posted a thought provoking article today about whether or not you should consider doing work for free. This isn’t to say you should go on Craigslist and post that you will perform wedding photography worth thousands of dollars to everyone that emails you.

SANTA ROSA, CALIF -Think Tank Photo has launched a new design in photo backpacks, the StreetWalkerTM series. With the three new backpacks’ slim vertical profile, photographers can navigate crowded places and public transportation while still being able to access professional photographic equipment.

You’ve just dropped a few grand for a new Canon 5D Mk II and while you are waiting for it to arrive, your mind is wondering if you will be the next big name in movie making right? If that is you then you need the new Zacuto Filmmaker Baseplate Kit. The Zacuto DSLR Filmmaker Kit allows for tripod and shoulder mount use of your DSLR camera for smooth, comfortable shooting.

Fans of Camera Dojo know that we are huge fans of the Blackrapid R-Strap (review). This innovative camera strap is being used by the likes of Scott Kelby and Dane Sanders now as well. Blackrapid has just announced their newest version, the RS-4. The RS-4 is a slim profile camera strap with an outside zippered pocket that can hold a couple of memeory cards for quick access. The new RS-4 should be available now for $49.95.

We have a winner!! Congratulations to Dana Schagunn from North Dakota. Dana is going to receive one of the first Shapeshifter bags from Think Tank Photo. Dana successfully entered the answer to our scavenger hunt question and got the answer to us in time and was selected by random drawing from several hundred entries we had.