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Fotodiox has just announced a new off-camera illumination source, designed to look like a classic strobe so that it can better integrate with the products you already own. While not actually a strobe, the Fotodiox Pro LED 100WA lights are modeled from them, giving you a constant, low-heat source of illumination that can easily take the lighting modifiers that are already part of your kit.

Smartphone "flashes" are terrible. Yes, in some cases they're better than nothing, but most of the time you should avoid them like the plague. But a new patent awarded to Apple could substantially boost their capability, by tapping into other devices around you to function as slaved off-camera lighting. By linking together your iPhone with those of a number of friends, you could provide a substantial boost to the lighting of a situation.

Elvis Halilović is a Slovenian industrial designer, carpenter, and photographer — and he's combined all three of his passions into a single project: ONDU pinhole cameras. This is a Kickstarter to fund the creation of a series of wooden pinhole cameras, designed and build by Halilović and his brother themselves.

When it comes to social networks, there's already a lot for photographers to like about Googe+. It has some of the best intellectual property practices around and it doesn't crunch your photo quality as much as some others like Facebook. Today, at their Google I/O conference, they unleashed some new photo features on Google+, which are available right now.