Photo curiosity

  • Nikon second D5000 recall

    Nikon is giving some explanations about what appears to be a second recall of Nikon D5000 cameras. First, if you checked the serial number of your D5000 camera with the Nikon online tool, it is necessary to check again. Nikon added some more cameras (the initial list was too limited, more cameras are involved). Second,…

  • New Sony Alpha, on August 25

    Sony Taiwan just sent a few invitations to the local press to present new products in the Sony Alpha series. The announcement will be done on August 25 (maybe a little earlier or a little later everywhere else in the world). Everybody expects to see the presentation of the Sony Alpha 850 and maybe also…

  • Intruder

    Melissa Brandt just wanted to take a photo of her husband and herself. But, as it happens sometimes, an intruder came into the frame. Except that this time it is a ground squirrel from Banff National Park who came checking the photo camera.

  • Videos for the Nikon D3000

    The Nikon D3000 has just been announced and here is what videos can be found on the Internet to present it. 4 videos in English. In English YouTube link

  • Price of the Sony Alpha 850

    A German photo retailer web site, Fotobrenner, has listed the Alpha 850. This could be in preparation for the upcoming launch of the new DSLR from Sony. But there is a more interesting information: a price. 1.999,00€ would be the street price for the Sony Alpha 850. This is more probably a very serious information…

  • EOS announcement on 1st September

    According to Canon Rumors, we can expect an announcement on the 1st September in the Canon EOS line of digital photo cameras.

  • Wildlife photographers, shut up!

    It has been revealed by a scientific study that ecotourists (and certainly wildlife photographers like you and me are falling in this category) are actually much more disturbing to wildlife than initially supposed. As written by New Scientist, “The sound of even a quiet conversation caused the birds [hoatzins in the Amazonian forest] to begin…

  • Lucas Foglia

    Allow me a stop at one set of documentary photos from a reportage of Lucas Foglia around a group of American people who are trying more or less seriously to come back to their wild roots. They call it re-wilding and it happens in the Southeastern United States of America. Out of concerns about the…

  • World images

    Sometimes, pictures are simply amazing. Today, I want to share a few very good images with you. Shockingly beautiful and astonishingly surprising. London by night by Jason Hawkes, brought to us by the excellent Boston.com “The Big Picture” (news stories in pictures). I try to track daily the exceptionally good photos there. Japan factories collected…