Sony to release new NEX camera in 2012

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-three-new-nex-cameras-coming-within-the-next-eight-months/

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com has an interesting post today. Sony is apparently planning to release 3 new NEX cameras in 2012 and will also be focusing on the E-mount lens line-up. This isn't a bad thing considering the great reception that the NEX-7 has received I just hope that they will continue to expand on the Alpha line-up and lenses.

The E-Mount is a nice alternative but I just do not believe it is where the professional market will head and in my opinion if you do not start to enter the pro-market and take it seriously your fortunes in the camera business will turn on a dime. Ask Kodak!

Kodak, is this the end of the road?

Yesterday various news sources and photography sites covered the announcement that Kodak was filing for bankruptcy. You can find more details regarding the announcement here http://www.kodaktransforms.com/ . For me though this announcement is more about the end of an era, long has been the debate around the digital vs film. True photography enthusiasts will always have a place in their hearts for film but there is no denying that photography has wholly shifted into the digital era and the Kodak announcement is just further confirmation of this. In my opinion the fight of digital vs traditional is still far from over. Recent announce by traditional tech companies who are players in the digital camera/ photography market have perhaps shown the best innovations in recent years and as cameras and photography continues to become more and more digitized the pressure will continue to mount on the traditional camera manufactures around the world. I am not sounding the death horn for the likes of the Canon's and Nikon's but I do believe that over the next 5-10 years they will face mounting pressure on their market share especially as the traction camera designs come under threat.

Gallery: Kruger National Park is flooding

Gallery: Kruger National Park is flooding: See a selection of News24 Users pics sent in of the floods in the Kruger National Park and surrounding areas. Send your pictures to photos@news24.com and we'll publish them.

The law of the bush

I was out on a game drive when we came across the following scene. The sequence of images to the left show a typically scenario in the bush.The first tel tale sign was a number of vultures in the trees. It was a rather wet day and overcast which typically means two things with vultures in trees. 

Either they were just nesting or there was a fresh kill that they were waiting to take their turn on. Most of the vultures were White Backed vultures, who nest in tree ( not good)  but there were a couple of Lappet-Faced vultures mixed in with the White backs which helped in  leaning the argument in favour of the latter scenario. Our misery was ended when while circling the area a Hyena made his appearance and ended our search for a carcass as with his superior sense of smell he simply led us straight to the wildebeest kill, The hyena was very nervous and constantly checked the surrounding bush giving a clue to the fact that the lioness had probably not gone far and was still in the vicinity. Showing the shrewd tact hyenas are know for the male dragged the carcass out into the open which was a major bonus for us. 

Time was not on his side though as after wolfing down a couple of chunks of meat the lioness made her return. I was quite surprised how see focused she was on the Hyena and locked onto the Hyena as if she was hunting. I would have thought that she would have simply roared or made a noise to scare off the hyena. 





 Fortunately it did not take long until the Hyena spotted the approaching Lioness and bolted like an Olympic sprinter.

The Lioness feeling I assume a little uneasy about the presence of the Hyena showed immense strength and simple disappeared with the carcass into the tickets. Ending our mornings excitement.