Rob Galbraith DPI

A Canon EOS 5D Mark II was used to capture 2346 photos of Paris on September 8, 2009, and the resulting 26 gigapixel stitched panorama went online today.

LPA Design has created a video demonstration of the Nikon version of the PocketWizard FlexTT5 in action. The wireless radio remote is an early prototype, but is capable of both Nikon iTTL and Auto FP High Speed Sync operation. Text accompanying the video stresses that it will be "months before there is a production version available" and that prior to the official release of the FlexTT5 transceiver and companion MiniTT1 transmitter for Nikon there will be a public beta program.

Washington, DC-based photographer Robert Giroux has co-developed an app for the iPhone and iPod touch that enables model releases, with signature, to be completed right on the device. Called Easy Release, the US$9.99 app is available now from the App Store within iTunes.

National Geographic features Top Ten Photos of the Year plus the ongoing Visions of Earth gallery offering some new images from 2010.

Reuters features Life of Wine, an interesting gallery of images on wine from the vineyard to the glass.

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features Chile, nine days later, a collection of interesting and still dramatic images of life there today.

PictureCode Software today released v2.0.7 of its Noise Ninja plug-in for Apple Aperture. The only change is compatibility with Aperture 3.x, when the software is operated in 64-bit mode. Version 2.0.7 is backwards-compatible with v2.x of Aperture, and will work in 32-bit mode as well.

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night, the stunning nighttime aerial work of photographer Jason Hawkes.

Stepan Rudik, winner of the 3rd prize story in the Sports Features category of the World Press Photo 2009 contest, has been disqualified from the contest for removing a foot from the background of one of the photographs in his winning story.*UPDATED*

Foreign Policy Magazine features The Shooting War, a collection of work by various conflict photographers working in the world's trouble spots.

The Canon Professional Network features an interview with David Burnett who spent 44 days in Iran in 1979 photographing the Iranian Revolution.

The Denver Post features THE GAME: Spring Training 2010, a blog with an interesting collection of images from Major League Baseball's spring training camps in various part of the US.

Firmware v2.0.3 for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, announced today and expected to come available as a free download later this month, will add 64-level manual audio control, a new histogram display, adjusted frame rates and more to the video capture mode of the 21.03 million image pixel digital SLR. A lens communication problem affecting this camera with v1.2.4 loaded will also be corrected.

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features some dramatic images from the devastating Earthquake in Chile.

Canon has posted updaters for Digital Photo Professional, EOS Utility, Picture Style Editor and WFT Utility for Mac and Windows, as well as Original Data Security Tools for Windows only. Changes include support for the upcoming EOS Rebel T2i/550D, the addition of an horizon correction feature to the Trimming Tool in DPP, support for Mac OS X 10.6 in EOS Utility (plus the removal of official support for a long list of older cameras) and more.

There has been no shortage of sports galleries from the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and we've endeavored to round up some of the latest galleries and blogs.*UPDATED*

Apple has released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.1 for the Mac OS, which adds support for the RAW formats of 11 new digital cameras, including the Olympus E-P1 and EP-2 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1.

Apple has released Aperture 3.0.1, an update to the latest version of its pro photo management, image editing and RAW photo conversion application for Mac. The update addresses a long list of bugs.

The 67th annual Pictures of the Year international competition has posted some of the winners in various categories.

Stern features a gallery on the fans from various parts of the world enjoying themselves at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.