Facebook's $1 billion adopted baby is growing up fast and may end up making the social networking site look like savvy parents with an real eye for potential rather than a silly entity that spent ten figures on a camera app with social features baked in. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, however, let's look at what Instagram has done, starting with its fast growing userbase.

Over 30 milion iOS device owners have registered accounts with Instagram, the free and popular photo sharing application that allows you to transform photos with a handful of digital filters and then upload the altered image to social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. It's enjoyed almost a cult-like following, and the fact that it's now available for Android isn't sitting well with a select group of silly iPhone users.

It feels a bit surreal reporting on Kodak's decision to ditch its dedicated capture devices business, including digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames. In a weird sort of way, it's a bit like the death of Tony the Tiger's real life voice in 2005, only Kodak is still alive, albeit on life support after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a couple of weeks ago.

The long anticipated D800 from Nikon has arrived, and while it's not quite a D4 in a D700 body like many were hoping for, it does sport a humongous 36.3-megapixel full-frame (FX) sensor (15.4 megapixels in DX format). Nikon says it's the world's highest effective pixel count among interchangeable lens DSLR cameras equipped with image sensors conforming to the 35-mm film size, and we won't argue the claim.