Rob Galbraith DPI

With promised write speeds of up to 80MB/s and read speeds up to 95MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I memory cards, to be available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities, have been proclaimed by the company as the world's fastest.

Panasonic has announced 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards that are promised to deliver 60MB/s read speeds (no specific write speed data has been given). The new memory cards utilize the faster UHS-I bus interface in achieving quicker throughput. As of this writing, no shipping or announced Canon or Nikon digital SLR supports UHS-I. This means Panasonic's new cards will operate within a bus interface maximum of 25MB/s in today's SD slot-equipped cameras from each manufacturer.

The Denver Post's photo blog features Captured: The Last Days of Summer, a fine gallery of the best images showing the final days of summer.

Reuters features Pictures of the Month: August, a collection of the best images from the news agency's photographers from across the globe.

Canon Expo 2010 New York, a showcase for Canon products and emerging Canon technology, kicked off today in The Big Apple. Held every five years, the event travels from here to Paris, Tokyo and, for the first time, Shanghai. Among the items of interest to photographers are the new EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye and other recently-announced lenses, the EOS 60D, the barcode-reading EOS 7D solution and an elaborate remote camera management demonstration that, if commercialized, would streamline the setup of potentially thousands of Canon digital SLRs deployed at locations across the country. Plus, a 30 inch computer display that is the sharpest desktop screen we've ever seen.

Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2. The new versions, which were initially made available as release candidates earlier this month, extend RAW conversion support to 16 new camera models including the Canon EOS 60D and Sony Alpha NEX-5. Lens correction profiles have been improved, while 120 new profiles have been added. In addition, Lightroom 3.2 includes a number of bug fixes, plus photos can now be uploaded direct to Facebook and SmugMug from within the application.

Foreign Policy's online magazine features No Exit, a gallery sowing gridlock and busy traffic conditions across the globe.

Reuters features a gallery of Weekly sports highlights from throughout the world.

The Denver Post's photo blog features Pictures of the Week: August 27, 2010.

New versions of the Canon 500mm f/4 and 600mm f/4 lenses are in development, with prototypes of each to be shown at next month's Photokina 2010 trade show in Cologne, Germany.

Canon has today introduced four new EF lenses, including an L-series 8-15mm fisheye, plus two new teleconverters. The six are the EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye, EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II, EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II, Extender EF 1.4x III and Extender EF 2x III.

Canon has unveiled the EOS 60D. The successor to the EOS 50D fits in between the EOS T2i/550D and EOS 7D in Canon's lineup and gets many of its still and video features from these models. It has a 17.92 million image pixel CMOS sensor, shoots stills at up to 5.3fps, sports 63-zone metering and 9-point AF systems, can control and trigger remote Speedlites with its built-in flash and captures 1080p video at up to 30fps. It's also the first Canon digital SLR to incorporate a tilt-and-twist rear LCD.

The New York Times Magazine has published a series of powerful still photos and stunning slow motion video of some of the top women's tennis players. Called Women Who Hit Very Hard, both the stills and video - captured with a high speed camera from Vision Research - were produced by a team led by fashion photographer and director Dewey Nicks.

The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features Hurricane Katrina five years later, a gallery which revisits many of the strong images from that time and also includes a series of interesting then-and-now images.

Nik Software has launched HDR Efex Pro, a high dynamic range imaging plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture that features the company's U Point selection technology, proprietary tone mapping algorithms, automatic image alignment and more.

Nikon has released Capture NX2 v2.2.5 for Mac and Windows, an update that adds conversion support for RAW files captured with the D3100, implements various changes to the Picture Control settings, corrects an instance of non-smooth image gradations in RAW files opened in the application, adds correction profiles for certain newer lenses and introduces compatibility with OS X 10.6.4 in the Mac version.

Getty Images has announced the launch of the Archive Photos collection, culled from the Hulton Archive (which Getty owns) and comprised of 80,000 digitized images "carefully selected to reflect America's defining moments, places and personalities."

Canon has announced the creation of a CMOS image sensor that's very slightly larger than that found in the 16.1 million pixel EOS-1D Mark IV, but with a whopping 120 million pixels and a readout rate of up to 9.5fps.

A coming update to onOne Software's DSLR Camera Remote, the slick remote camera control system for Apple's mobile devices, will add support for the Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D.

Phase One, Mamiya and Profoto have jointly announced the V-Grip Air, a vertical grip for Phase One 645DF and Mamiya 645DF medium format cameras that, in addition to offering a vertical shutter button and other controls, incorporates a Profoto Air transmitter inside that's capable of triggering compatible Air receivers at shutter speeds up to 1/1600.