Update3: This comes from imaging-resource:

Here’s what Issacs wrote on Adobe’s community forum following the reports.

“On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated …

You have heard wrong! Adobe is absolutely not providing free copies of CS2!

What is true is that Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 that don’t require activation but do require valid serial numbers are available. (Special serial numbers are provided on the page for each product download.) See <http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1114930>.

Update2: the download link appears to be still alive. Just tried it out. Don’t know what is going on.

Update: To good to be true! According to diyphotography, which cites Adobe support forum, the download was never meant to be free. The download page was meant for photographers who bought CS2, but needed to reactivate it. The download link has now been disabled.

Adobe’s CS2 suite can be downloaded for free. Click here to download. Serial numbers are provided. You have to be registered to Adobe (it’s free) to make the download. Mac (PowerPc) and Windows versions.

You can get a free 16mm pancake lens on the purchase of a selected list of NEX cameras at Adorama (Click here). And three more Sony deals got extended until February:
1) Sony NEX-F3K super bundle at Amazon (Click here).
2) Save up to $300 on Qualifying Sony Alpha Digital SLR Cameras at Amazon (Click here).
3) Save up to $100 on Select Sony NEX Compact System Cameras at Amazon (Click here).

At Photokina Digital King announced the new 12mm f/7.4 fisheye lens for NEX. This lens is now for the first time in Stock via [shoplink 16268 ebay]multiple eBay resellers (Click here)[/shoplink]. Not exactly a main stream lens and the 8mm [shoplink 16269 ebay]Rokinon/Samyang lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink] may be a better choice unless you need exactly the 12mm focal length.

Here are the Gloxy specs:

• Focal distance: 12mm
• Coating: 7 layers multi coating to reduce aberrations to a minimum
• Lens construction: 4 elements in 4 groups
• Focusing distance: 0.5m to infinitive
• Aperture: f/7.4
• Weight: 220g
• Dimensions: 65.00 x 58.5mm

Here are some image samples (Click on it to see a larger sized pic):

After yesterdays price drop on the A99 for the first time we also got a price drop on the Sony RX1. And it’s a quite big one! You save $170 at [shoplink 16254 ebay]Cameraland (Click here)[/shoplink] and at [shoplink 16255 ebay]BigValue (Click here)[/shoplink].

Deal found via Slidoo eBay.

The A99 price dropped down to $2,550 at [shoplink 16246 ebay]BigValue (on eBay)[/shoplink]. That’s now $250 less than the regular price. Still not a huge price drop like we had on the Nikon FF cameras but we are getting there…slowly :)

Small price drops are also ongoing at Wex and eBay Europe. I think another $200-300 price drop would help Sony to significantly increase the camera sales. But that’s of course just a instinct based opinion. Sony will know it better what they need to push the camera sales.

Some A99 news: A99 review at Digitalcamerareview. A99 First Impressions at Echenique.

You can grab the NEX-7 with 18-55mm kit lens for $998 at Newegg (Click here). You have to add the item to cart and add “BTEJHHH22” as coupon code. The same “Trick” should work for these other cameras too (Click here).

More new deals:
Zeiss for NEX for $1019 only at [shoplink 16171 ebay]Cameraland (Click here)[/shoplink]. And save that Slidoo eBay search to get further notifications on the Zeiss lens deals.
A99 for $2600 only at [shoplink 16172 ebay]BigValue (Click here)[/shoplink]. (Slidoo search here).
NEX-6 for $740 only again at [shoplink 16173 ebay]BigValue (Click here)[/shoplink]. (Slidoo search here).