Visit to South Luangwa

By On 27/06/2011

The Bushcamp Company, my host on all my trips to South Luangwa National Park in Zambia, published a short impression of my latest trip to this beautiful place. Check it out, and also have a look at their activities both in Mfuwe Lodge as well as the intimate bushcamps. This is as close as [...]

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Serengeti Highway cancelled

By On 25/06/2011

Very good news from Tanzania. The highly controversial ‘Serengeti Highway’ project, a road planned across the north of the Serengeti National Park, has been cancelled. The road would have disrupted the wildebeest migration, one of the world’s most famous wildlife spectacles. The Tanzania government announced that a new road will be built, but that road [...]

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Pentax Q: for whom?

By On 24/06/2011

Pentax announced the Pentax Q, a very compact camera with interchangeable lenses. In contrast with other compact system cameras, the Pentax Q doesn’t have a large sensor however. The sensor is comparable in size with the sensor of the better compact camera, so the image quality is probably similar too. The question arises who is [...]

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Light Field consumer camera

By On 22/06/2011

A start-up company called Lytro claims that it will introduce the first consumer ‘Light Field’ camera during this year. A Light Field camera is a camera that doesn’t need focussing, because that can be done after the fact. It’s also ideal for 3D-photography, at least in theory. What the camera will look like and [...]

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3

By On 14/06/2011

Panasonic today announced its new Lumix DMC-GF3 digital camera, the smallest camera in its Micro Four Thirds line. Specifications can be found on many websites, so I won’t bother to list them all here as well. More interesting is what kind of quality one can expect from the new camera. I got a chance to [...]

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