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Las Vegas has played host to the Consumer Electronics Show all this week; as a consequence, enough new compact cameras have been unveiled to sink a battleship, gadgets and gizmos have been announced left, right, and centre; and there have been a few funny goings-on. Everything's here for your delectation in bite-size form.

Camera talk

There have been new cameras from Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, and Sony (amongst others). Either they've not received the message that camera phones are beating compact sales into a cocked hat, or they're going down fighting. I'll put my money on the latter.

Some of the Ars Technica team got a quick hands-on with the Lytro field camera. Verdict: fun, but takes some adjustment link (2012-01-13 by @SmallAperture)

Canon promises mirrorless camera system for 2012 link (2012-01-12 by @Photocritic)

Yasuhara Madoka: the first 180 degree circle fisheye lens for mirrorless cameras link (2012-01-12 by @Photocritic)

The Strobist bails on Nikon, and decides not to buy the D4 link (2012-01-12 by @Photocritic)

The Canon S100 is flippin' awesome, and it's now in stock over at Amazon. Yay! link (2012-01-11 by @Photocritic)

Gadgets and gizmos

If you need a handy-dandy Creative Commons image search facility, try out @photo_pin (2012-01-11 by @SmallAperture)

Sony unveils new, high-speed XQD memory cards link (2012-01-08 by @Photocritic)

Awesome-looking new underwater housing for Nikon's top bridge camera: link (2012-01-08 by @Photocritic)

Lexar Professional 1000x CompactFlash Memory Card is the stuff of legend: link (2012-01-08 by @Photocritic)

Instagrammers can now post full-size images to their Facebook timelines, but there's still no Android app: link (2012-01-09 by @SmallAperture)

Finally for sale as a product: Wall sockets with USB sockets built-in. Sweet: link (2012-01-11 by @Photocritic)

Heartbreaking piece of sad news: Triggertraps delayed until early April link (2012-01-09 by @Photocritic)

Corporate shenanigans

Oops! Sigma, I'm not sure that pre-production 180mm f/2.8 macro was meant to be a CES freebie: link (2012-01-13 by @SmallAperture)

Update from Nikon, Thailand: partial production resumed at Rojana plant on 3 Jan. Meanwhile, other plants are picking up dSLR & lens slack. (2012-01-10 by @SmallAperture)

Yesterday Olympus suggested it might sue past and present board members for fraud. Today it has confirmed it will: link (2012-01-10 by @SmallAperture)

Editing suites and software

Looks as if there'll be a version of Snapseed coming to some Android phones near you, soon: link (2012-01-12 by @SmallAperture)

Adobe has announced the Lightroom 4 Beta, with some obvious, and some not-so-obvious, additions: link (2012-01-10 by @SmallAperture)

Adobe has also renamed Carousel to Revel and added in some new features. A shame - I liked the name 'Carousel'.

Tips, tricks, and inspiration

Carefully cropped photo prints placed in luggages = Alice in Wonderland Magic link (2012-01-12 by @Photocritic)

Implied nudity in portraiture (Because a little mystique keeps it interesting) link (2012-01-12 by @Photocritic)

Are you into event photography? You could do a lot worse than taking a look at @FrozenEvent - they've just launched a cool site. (2012-01-11 by @Photocritic)

Pictures of London, then and now. (2012-01-11 by @SmallAperture)

Paltry: An astonishing NSFW self-portrait on @Flickr: link (2012-01-11 by @Photocritic)

Lacking inspiration? Go find yourself something rusty! link (2012-01-06 by @Photocritic)

What can you accomplish in 360 hours? Here's a timelapse that'll inspire... link  (2012-01-11 by @Photocritic)

Big fish in small pond syndrome could make you the best photographer in the world... link (2012-01-10 by @Photocritic)

The Gigapixel Panorama of London... link (2012-01-09 by @Photocritic)

In 2004, Mike Brodie was given his first Polaroid camera. Then, awesomeness happened: link (2012-01-08 by @Photocritic)

100 amazing iPhone photos... link (2012-01-07 by @Photocritic)

We have ten top tips for fantastic food photography

Projects and competitions

Ten cool photography projects for 2012 link (2012-01-13 by @Photocritic)

And a different, but equally cool, ten suggestions for photography projects.

Burrard-Lucas Photography (@WillBL) Launches Nature Photography Contest link (2012-01-07 by @Photocritic)

National Geographic Photography Contest Winners: 2011 link (2012-01-07 by @Photocritic)

General quirk

Did you know that John Elfreth Watkins, an American civil engineer, predicted digital colour photography 100 years ago? link (2012-01-12 by @SmallAperture)

How do you squish a Canon camera into the shape of an iPhone icon? This'll do: link (2012-01-10 by @Photocritic)

Finally, we have some questions in search of answers

How Much Should You Photoshop Your Photos? link (2012-01-11 by @Photocritic)

Do any of you guys photograph star-trails? What's the longest exposure you'd typically use? (2012-01-10 by @Photocritic)

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