MELVILLE, N.Y. (Nov. 30, 2008) – Nikon Inc. today announced the D3X, an FX-format digital SLR featuring extreme 24.5-megapixel resolution and superb low-noise capabilities, which provides professional photographers with commercial-quality image performance in a familiar and extraordinarily versatile D-SLR form factor. In conjunction with the groundbreaking Nikon FX-format D3, the D3X tops off a collection of flagship level, rugged, professional caliber digital single lens reflex cameras engineered to excel in all types of professional photographic disciplines from photojournalism and sideline sports, to commercial in-studio applications.

This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original Camera Raw plug-in that was installed with Adobe® Creative Suite® 4, Photoshop® CS4, Photoshop Elements 6 or 7, and Adobe Premiere® Elements 4.0 or 7 software.

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Canon has posted updates to Digital Photo Professional, EOS Utility, WFT Utility and Picture Style Editor for Mac and Windows, bringing new features as well as support for digital SLRs up to and including the EOS 5D Mark II. They’ve also released a new version of Canon RAW Codec for Windows, which also adds support for the EOS 5D Mark II.

Pixel Bender Gallery Plugin is now available for Adobe Photoshop CS4. This plugin is actually more of a framework to allow Pixel Blender plugins to be used, these can be all kinds of different effects from sharpening, to blurring, to warping, and much more.

Think Tank Photo is offering some awesome deals that give you three ways to get free bags or belts from Think Tank Photo as you “gear up” for 2009. Buy a roller, Airport backpack, or modular set at one of any of their US retailers or directly from Think Tank Photo, send them the coupon and your sales receipt, and Think Tank Photo will send you the free gift.

If you were lucky enough to make millions during the dot-com boom and didn’t loose it all in the recent financial turmoil, then you may be able to afford the new camera systems just announced by Red Digital Cinema. There is nothing in the known universe that comes close to the specs on these digital powerhouses. With sensors that will be available ranging from 3 megapixels to a staggering 261 megapixels.

Fans of The Digital Photography Show podcast with Scott Sherman and Michael Stein will soon be able to listen to them once again. Scott and Michael are launching their new show, Digital Photography Life over at PersonalLifeMedia.com, the same podcasting network we use here at Camera Dojo.

Now you can put a Camera Dojo widget on your own website! We know have a new widget that you can put on virtually any website and help other people know all about Camera Dojo. Every time we post a new article, your Camera Dojo widget will be automatically updated.

Adobe has released Lightroom 2.1 and Camera Raw 5.1 along with the DNG Converter 5.1. Lightroom 2.1 has been in a release candidate state for several weeks and has some improvements and fixes over the initial 2.0 release. Both Lightroom 2.1 and Camera Raw 5.1 include camera support for the following new models:

It’s been only two weeks since we moved the podcast over to the Personal Life Media network but I wanted to take a moment and give a shout out to Susan and Tim over there. They have managed to totally clean up the fubar’d iTunes feed, get the show featured as a new release for over a week, and have helped bring the download numbers to three times what they were before we joined up with them.

The 5th major iteration of the Camera Raw plug-in is now shipping as part of Photoshop CS4. Camera Raw 5 has a number of new features:

* Local adjustment brush
* Graduated Filter
* “Post Crop” Vignetting
* Opacity for the cloning/healing tool
* Improved Auto Adjustment
* Support for the new Camera Profiles that are still in beta form