It is finally Friday. Not a whole lot of news happening yesterday, but here’s a few things you might of missed.

The Digital Picture reviews the Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens. In short, it’s better than expected. I suspect it’ll be a popular combination with the Canon EOS 50D.

David duChemin wants to give you a free Polaroid Pogo Printer at Pixalated Image.

Olympus has some firmware updates for 5 lenses for them to work with the Panasonic G1.

Luminous Landscape compares the Nikon P6000 and the Canon G10. Winner? The G10.

Photography Blog reviews the Nikon P6000. It’s a good camera, probably better than your current compact, but given the competitors, if you’re buying a compact today—get the G10 or the LX3.

That’s it for now. I’ll be in Pennsylvania tomorrow, hopefully I can get some fall foliage pics while I’m there.

Rainy day here in the northeast, hopefully it’s nicer where you are. Anyway let’s get going here…

Photography Blog reviews the Canon G10. Not to rehash, but on a feature basis, it is a fine camera, and certainly capable of taking great pictures. It gets a great review, but:

…I would have preferred to see Canon stick with the same 12 megapixel sensor and improve high ISO performance, rather than cram in even more megapixels. The excellent image stabilisation system helps to ensure that the G10 can handle most common shooting situations, but don’t expect stellar results when using the camera handheld in very low-light, as you’ll be forced to use the high ISO speeds, or the built-in flash. If you’re comparing the G10 with a DSLR, you need to seriously consider how often you’ll be using ISO 400 and above, as any entry-level DSLR clearly beats the G10 in this respect…

-Photography Blog

PhotoReview reviews the Canon EOS 50D. It reconfirms the 50D is another solid offering from Canon:

Interestingly, low-light performance was generally outstanding, with no visible noise in shots right up to ISO 1600 and very little noise at ISO 3200. By ISO 6400, noise was visible – although not obvious. Noise was evident at ISO 12,800, where we also noticed a raster pattern of lines across areas of the image with no detail. However, these images were printable at 15 x 10 cm size.

-PhotoReview

Rail mounts and focus rigs for the Canon 5D Mark II.

Ctein discusses high pass sharpening. It’s a method I use in tandem with smart sharpen, depending on what type of detail is in a particular photo.

25 best news photographs from Vanity Fair. Some powerful moments.

Kelby’s Digital Photography Book Vols. 1 and 2, in a boxed set. Clearly a X-mas present in the making.

The Digital Picture points to some additional videos from the Canon 5D Mark II. Yes, it will be a trend.

That’s it for now. Try to enjoy this Tuesday folks!

The weekend is over, and there’s a full 5 days to go till the next one. In case you were out this weekend, here’s what you might have missed:

Epson reveals new 24 and 44 inch inkjet printers.

Camcorder Info reviews the Nikon D90, specifically the video feature. The D90:

disappointed us with most of its video performance. While it did capture wonderful colors in low light, it couldn’t compete against dedicated HD camcorders in most shooting conditions. That doesn’t mean the images didn’t look good—they did—we just wondered how much better things would look if Nikon had offered a full 1920 x 1080 HD resolution. The glaring lack of an autofocus and confusing manual controls made the D90’s video mode very difficult to deal with overall.

-Camcorder Info

It wasn’t all bad, and a good read from folks familiar with video.

CreativePro.com reviews Adobe Photoshop CS4. I’ve played with it too, and yes it is worth the upgrade.

For satisfying some of you Adobe Lightroom preset needs: PresetsHeaven.

Terry White reviews the iPhone app  PhotoBuddy. Similar to PhotoCalc, PhotoBuddy puts alot of camera information at your fingertips, via the iPhone.

Ryan Brenizer gets his hands on the Leica S2. I’m very jealous.

Canon has a new 24″ inkjet printer too.

That’s it for now. Enjoy your Monday folks.

Apple has released Aperture 2.1.2. The update addresses:

- The Aperture 2.1.2 update improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered through the Aperture printing service. The update is recommended for all customers using Aperture 2.

Smashing Magazine has a large collection of Photoshop Actions, some useful, some not so much.

Galbraith says Camera Raw 5.1 will be available next week, bringing added support for your new camera.

Kelby points out Joe McNally has nabbed a National Geographic Cover. This automatically lands him on my list of “folks I randomly don’t like”.

Sony A900 ISO 100-6400 100% crops over at Master Chong’s. Why he cropped where he did, isn’t actually clear to me.

Digital Camera Review previews the Canon Powershot G10. Includes a video preview as well.

Only 4 days to go till the weekend folks, you can do it.

Yes, I’m still alive, just been overwhelmed at work as of late. It’s not like any of you have helped to put up posts here either… (which I would love).

25 Powerful Children Portraits at Smashing Magazine. Themed to match Blog Action Day’s topic, “Poverty”.

Imaging Resource says that  Adobe is now shipping CS4!

DCRP points out Panasonic’s micro 4/3 DMC-G1 will ship with a F3.5-5.6, 14 – 45 mm IS lens for $799, proving that small doesn’t equal cheap.

A Sigma DP1 has fallen and won’t be getting back up at the Online Photograper.

onOne’s PhotoFrame 4 is now available. I go back and forth on edge treatments. It’s too trendy, it’s cool. It adds something, it distracts. Still PhotoFrame 4 is something I’d end up getting at some point.

DP PhotoJournal offers up some portrait photography tips.

Raw file conversion software Capture One Pro 4 has been released.

27 Lightroom presets for wedding photographer (and others) from Gavin Phillips. I love presets.

Photography Blog reviews FocalPoint from onOne software. FocalPoint aims to help you control selective focus with software.

Adobe’s Tom Hogarty explains Camera Raw 5, which happens to be shipping with CS4.

Scott Bourne hearts Panasonic’s LX3 in a mini-review at TWIP

I’m just so glad the weekend is here. Today’s leaf peeping and a movie for me!

{ Frank's The Americans }

Probably will play with some photos from NYC today, in the meantime here are some links from the internets for your coffee drinking pleasure:

• Newly redesigned photo-eye has launched their new online magazine, and this first issue is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank’s The Americans, with a number of articles and interviews on the book and the man. Lots of good reading.
• Terry discusses the di-GPS pro for geotagging on Nikon DSLRs.
• Also via Terry, a “review” of the Nikon Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8, which by all accounts, is a lens you’ll really want to have if you want to go wide with your Nikon D700 or D3. Seriously, this an awesome lens with one weakness, no filters.
• Scott publishes his field report of the Nikon D700. It’s another reminder that the D700 is mostly better than the D300 (unless you need that extra “reach” provided via crop) and in some ways better than the D3 (flash, sensor cleaning, smaller, cheaper). If you can live with a squishy sounding shutter, you can live with the D700.