Well, the Icelandic volcano with unpronounceable named failed to spoil Sony's party earlier this week - just (the destination airport of Split, in Croatia) was closed on Sunday and 300 people, including myself, arrived the following day. The organisers were chewing a lot of fingernails over the weekend!

Sony duly revealed, rather earlier than anticipated, its new NEX hybrid camera system, and of course we have [URL="http://dpnow.com/7096.html"]covered the launch[/URL] and [URL="http://dpnow.com/7103.html"]posted sample images[/URL].

When I first started DPNow nearly nine years ago I had not anticipated ending up being a TV reporter, but that's fast being the reality for people in my industry, a bit like this, from my hotel balcony in Split:

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I think this is my first appearance on the site on video :) Get used to it - it's representative of more to come!

And if that wasn't enough, I was interviewed on Croatian TV news, mainly being asked about what I thought of country. I couldn't think of much to say that was wrong, apart from the fact that we were a bit unlucky with the weather - it was overcast during our shooting tour and there was a huge cloudburst during in the evening of the same day. Luckily, the sun briefly emerged for my DIY hotel balcony video report!