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• Get the highest possible quality from every pixel in your images using state-of-the-art editing tools.
• Easily showcase your work to friends, family, and clients. Craft elegant photo books and share your photographs on social networks or in web galleries, slideshows, prints, and more.
• Manage your entire photo collection in a visual library that makes it quick and easy to organize, find, and select your images.

Introducing Lightroom 5 Beta
 
Lightroom 5 beta builds on the vision of the very first Lightroom beta. From day 1, Lightroom was designed for photographers and by photographers to help them focus on what they love—the art and craft of photography. Lightroom provides photographers with an elegant and efficient way to work with their growing digital image collections, bring out the best in their images, and make an impact from raw capture to creative output, all while maintaining the highest possible quality each step of the way.
 
New Features in Lightroom 5 Beta

• Advanced Healing Brush – Easily remove objects and fix defects—even those with irregular shapes such as threads or lint—with a single brush stroke. Take precise control over what's being removed as you make unwanted objects just disappear.
• Upright – Straighten tilted images with a single click. Upright analyzes images and detects skewed horizontal or vertical lines. You choose one of four correction methods, and Upright can even straighten images where the horizon is hidden.
• Radial Gradient – Lead your viewer's eye through your images with more flexibility and control. The radial gradient tool lets you create off-center vignette effects, or multiple vignette areas within a single image.
• Offline editing with Smart Previews – Easily work with images without bringing your entire library with you. Just generate smaller stand-in files called Smart Previews. Make adjustments or metadata additions to Smart Previews and your changes will be automatically applied to the full-size originals later.
• Video slideshow sharing – Easily share your work in elegant video slideshows. Combine still images, video clips, and music in creative HD videos that can be viewed on almost any computer or device.
• Improved photo book creation – Create beautiful photo books from your images. Lightroom includes a variety of easy-to-use book templates, and now you can edit them to create a customized look. Upload your book for printing with just a few clicks.

The Lightroom 5 beta program is available to the public. Anyone with an Internet connection can download it and start putting it to the test. You do not need to own (or have tried) a previous version of Lightroom. You can download the beta and use it until the product expires on June 30, 2012.
 
Download the Lightroom 5 Public Beta.
 
Adobe's Lightroom YouTube channel has several informative videos on Lightroom 5 Beta.

Model	Rebate Amount
Canon EOS 5D Mark III	$200.00
Canon EOS 6D	$100.00 - $500.00
Canon EOS 7D	$200.00 - $500.00
Canon EOS 60D	$200.00 - $500.00

Canon Lens & Flash Rebates

Model	Rebate Amount
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4 L USM Fisheye Lens	$150.00
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM Lens	$100.00
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II USM Lens	$300.00
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM Lens	$150.00
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM Lens	$80.00
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 L IS USM Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens	$200.00
Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 L Tilt-Shift Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 20mm f/2.8 USM Lens	$50.00
Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L II USM Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens	$150.00
Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM Lens	$60.00
Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens	$150.00
Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 L USM Lens	$150.00
Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens	$50.00
Canon TS-E 45mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift Lens	$100.00
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM Lens	$180.00
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens	$50.00
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens	$15.00
Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro Lens	$30.00
Canon MP-E 65mm Macro Lens	$100.00
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 L II USM Lens	$200.00
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Lens	$50.00
Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift Lens	$180.00
Canon EF 100mm f/2 USM Lens	$50.00
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro Lens	$50.00
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM Macro Lens	$150.00
Canon EF 135mm f/2 L USM Lens	$100.00
Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L USM Macro Lens	$150.00
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens	$50.00
Canon EF 300mm f/4 L IS USM Lens	$100.00
Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 L USM Lens	$120.00
Canon EF 1.4x II Extender	$50.00
Canon EF 2x II Extender	$50.00
Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens	$100.00
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens	$100.00
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens	$120.00
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Lens	$50.00
Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT Flash	$50.00
Canon Speedlite 430EX II Flash	$40.00
Canon Speedlite 270EX II Flash	$20.00
Canon Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX Flash	$60.00
Canon Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX Flash	$50.00

This is The-Digital-Picture.com's Weekend Recap for the week ending April 13th, 2013
 
In the news...
 
On Monday, Canon released a firmware update for the Canon 6D. The new firmware addresses a bug that would cause the 6D to spontaneously request confirmation of the date and time settings even after the settings were already configured.
 
Also on Monday, Red Rock Micro announced its newest product – the One Mane Crew. The One Man Crew is a slide system that runs automatically keeping the subject in focus thanks to its parabolic track. The device promises to deliver cinematic results with minimal resources.
 
On Wednesday, PocketWizard announced its beta firmware release plan update. PocketWizard plans to update the MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 for compatibility with the Nikon D600, D5200, D3200, the Canon 6D and T4i, and provide HyperSync Improvements for both systems.
 
On Friday, we posted a news announcement about newly purchased Canon lenses arriving with the Mark II center-pinch lens caps. Long-time Canon customers will surely be happy with this change.
 
In site news and reviews...
 
Bryan continued to highlight his updated lens recommendation pages this week. Bryan highlighted his lens recommendations for weddings, outdoor sports, indoor sports, macro subjects, wildlife, and landscapes. And on Saturday, Bryan also highlighted what he considers to be “bargain buys” in the lens world.
 
On Monday, Bryan posted an update regarding his Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC lens standardized testing. In the end, the lens provided very impressive image quality results – but the difficulty in obtaining a trouble-free copy of the lens indicates Tamron may have some quality control issues to address.
 
On Thursday, Bryan responded to questions as to whether or not the Canon 85 f/1.2 L’s autofocus was acceptable for sports use. In short, when paired with a very capable body like the 1D X, the lens provides decent results even in moderately challenging conditions.
 
And, for our deal of the week…
 
On Friday, we posted promotional deals from Adorama where you could get several popular items at significant savings. The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II USM was an especially good deal – only $1,949.00 with free shipping, 2% Rewards, and a free Red Giant Production software bundle.
 
This has been the The-Digital-Picture.com’s Weekend Recap. Thanks for listening, and as always, happy shooting!

• Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM II Lens - $1,949.00
• Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II Lens - $1,929.00
• Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens - $142.00
• Canon EOS Rebel T4i DSLR Camera w/ 18-55mm IS Lens - $599.00

All deals come with free shipping and 2% Rewards. The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM II Lens and Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II Lens ship with a Red Giant Adorama Production Bundle for free.