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Look at Panasonic's new super zoom and you wouldn't be crazy to mistake it for one of their interchangeable-lens compacts. But, the 24x LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens (25-600mm equivalent field of view) is most certainly attached. 

We've all had the occasional situation where things have been spilled, dropped, smeared, or otherwise marred our perfectly good cameras — but what could possibly require covering your entire camera in plastic wrap like that? Reuters photographer Jo Yong-Hak covered the Boryeong Mud Festival this year — an annual weeklong summer celebration that involves millions of people visiting a mud-covered beach for sliding, wrestling, massages, competitions, and generally awesome summertime fun.

Planned to hit stores later this month, Photogenic Professional Lighting has announced three new lines of lighting kits: the Solair(tm), PowerLight®, and StudioMax® III series, each with a different need in mind. All the kits include a softbox from Photogenic, as well as a bevy of other extras, depenging on configuration: All Solair(tm) and PowerLight® kits include Photogenic Heavy Duty Air-Cushioned Stands. Most competitive brands don't offer this option.All Photogenic Kits with two or more lights include the patented High Quality Photogenic Eclipse Umbrellas.All Photogenic kits include Photogenic PL7R reflectors. Other brands do not include this accessory with their monolights.All new Solair(tm) and Digital PowerLight® kits offer a PocketWizard(tm) Kit version with the radio receiver built-in to the monolight housing.All Kits with two or more lights include a Photogenic soft case w/wheels for ultimate portability or safe storage.All new Photogenic kits include a color-corrected UV flashtube.Four AKC Kits offer a radio version with a built-in 4-channel radio receiver in the monolight housing. Scattered throughout the list of new gear are a number of travel kits for those of you who want to take your lighting rigs with you on the road. Photogenic is casting this major new offering as a bid to tap into the extremely large market of new DLSR users, as more and more people are drawn to photography.Unfortunately, we don't have any prices on what these kits will cost you, but since they're due to launch this month, it shouldn't be long before you see them in catalogues and photography stores.We've embedded a full list of all 24 kits after the jump.

Lo-fi photo-sharing app Instagram recently passed 6 million active users, which means there are a whole lot of pseudo-lomo pictures making their way to the web every minute.