Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

Fiji Digital Shootout, May 6-15th, 2004

Splash into the world of underwater digital photography at the third annual underwater Digital Shootout in Fiji, May 6 - 15th, 2004! Far beyond a standard photo safari, the Digital Shootout is an in-depth learning experience. Meet fellow beginner and advanced shooters and rub elbows with our team of professional photographers and industry experts for a week long program that includes free digital demo gear with professional assistance and critiques, and hands-on workshops. Experts from Adobe will empower you with the essential skills of Photoshop image control and premiere video editing.

Wetpixel is proud to annouce our involvement in this year’s event. We’ll be giving a seminar on digital underwater photography, and will be doing a daily webcast of shootout events.

For more information, check out theshootout.org.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

UnderwaterPhotography.com Announces Winners

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p>PRESS RELEASE: News in underwater photography this week is the announcement of the winners of the UnderwaterPhotography.com photo contest 2003. This annual contest is the longest running online digital photo contest, and gives underwater photographers a forum to show their work and gain recognition, and encouragement, from their peers. Underwater photographers from 50 countries entered digital images online in several categories: topside, over/under, macro, wrecks, natural light, fantasy, divers, and marine life. An international panel of judges has chosen the top three entries in each category entered during the previous year and awarded them gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. This year a new award has been created

Monday, January 26th, 2004

Ikelite Olympus TTL Beta Test

Wetpixel member Peter Schulz got to test the new Ikelite circuitry which translates the camera's TTL metering system signal from an Olympus 5050 or 5060 and sends it to an Ikelite digital Substrobe. Peter dove with an Ikelite 5050 housing with the prototype conversion circuit installed. To quote Peter:

“The results were outstanding. For the first time ever I got perfect lighting under almost every imaginable condition e.g. shooting under reefs, against the sand, against the sky, with cloudy skies, sunny skies, etc. without changing any camera settings during the dives! This TTL system really rocks!”

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Web Links Section

Remember to add your favorite underwater imaging-related site to Wetpixel’s Web Links section! Your link will show up once we approve your submission.

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

Wetpixel, v3.0

Welcome to the new Wetpixel.com!
(log-in with your old forum credentials, or register with us)
We’re finally done with a ground-up redesign and rewrite of Wetpixel.com! <br/><br/>James Wiseman, Craig Jones and I have been working hard to migrate content over from the old site. We've moved all of the news, reviews, and forum content over, but we're still working on the features. As expected, many links buried in old content will be broken. If you come across a broken link that seems particularly important, please let one of the administrators know by leaving a message in our official migration thread.

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

INON X2 Canon 10D Housing

INON Japan has announced the X2 Canon 10D dSLR Housing. A preliminary translation from Japanese can be found in our forums, but we are waiting for some sort of official press release from INON America.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004

Digideep covers BOOT EXPO

Our friends Andreas Voeltz & Lars Kirchhoff over at Digideep have posted comprehensive coverage of the BOOT EXPO, which takes place annually in D

Monday, January 19th, 2004

Seacam S2 Pro Housing

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Sunday, January 18th, 2004

Wakatobi Workshop 2004

THIS TRIP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
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Dates: Sept 28-Oct 8, 2004

Espen Rekdal and Wetpixel's Eric Cheng have teamed up to offer a Wakatobi Underwater Photo Workshop 2004. Wetpixel will be doing a daily webcast from the island, and both Eric and Espen will be available for daily consultations and advise.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Aquatica A300 Canon Digital Rebel Housing & TTL!

Very exciting news for Canon shooters: We just heard from Blake at Aquatica that they have made a breakthrough and will be offering their Canon 300D digital Rebel housing with TTL strobe control. Aquatica’s electrical engineers have “cracked the E-TTL code” for the Canon 300D and will install special circuitry between the camera’s hotshoe and the housing bulkhead that will enable the camera to communicate with underwater strobes for automatic, TTL strobe control.

One of Aquatica’s beta testers is trying out the 300D housing with TTL right now in Bonaire and should have a report in the coming weeks. We don’t know yet which strobes will be TTL compatible with the setup, but we hope to find out soon - so check back here for more information as it becomes available.

[see some photos of the A300 housing] [discuss in our forums]

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