Friday, September 7th, 2012

Blackmagic Designs to offer micro four thirds mount

Blackmagic Designs has announced that it is to offer its Cinema Camera in a version that accepts manually operated micro four thirds (MFT) lenses. The Blackmagic Cinema Camera MFT accepts MFT lenses or even adapters to other lens mounts such as PL. The camera’s design is otherwise identical, with a machined aluminum chassis, high-resolution 2.5K sensor, 13 stops of dynamic range and 12-bit RAW uncompressed and compressed ProRes and DNxHD file formats.

The Blackmagic Designs Cinema Camera MFT is expected to ship in December at $2,995.

Friday, September 7th, 2012

Amazing giant Pacific octopus images

Wetpixel’s 2012 God’s Pocket Expedition has just concluded, and trip leader Jason Bradley reports that:

“Some of the walls and reefs at God’s Pocket are as lush and colorful as I’ve seen anywhere in the world, and anyone remotely interested in cold water diving should put this place on their bucket list. But, one of my personal motivations for visiting this part of the world is a dive site called Dillon Rock. This is a well-known site due to the predictability of large and, for lack of a better word, friendly, giant pacific octopus. This year, I had the privilege to encounter the largest octopus I’ve ever seen in the wild. I’m guessing it was 30 pounds or more, but I’m no expert. I can tell you her (or his) head was the size of two basketballs.”

Wetpixel has already booked God’s Pocket for 2014.

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Changes in Wetpixel support system announced

We have just implemented a new system to handle support enquiries on Wetpixel. Please simply contact us via our support form and we will respond to you as soon as we are able. Alternatively, please post any issues you may be having onto the Wetpixel forum. As far as we are aware, there are no outstanding enquiries on the old system, but if you have not yet received a reply, or are awaiting a response from us, please accept our apologies and don’t hesitate to get in contact.

If you need information about advertising opportunities on Wetpixel, please contact Wetpixel’s Editor Adam Hanlon directly.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Dive the World goes bi monthly

Dive the World magazine has announced that it plans to expand from its existing quarterly publishing rate, to a bi monthly one. In effect there will be 6 issues per year from 2013. The publishers say this is due to the volume of interest from photographers in having their images published in the magazine. In addition, they will also now be offering an electronic version for iPad or computer, and a German language edition (in both forms).

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Call for entries: Shark Angels Calendar Contest

Shark Angels are calling for entries of images of sharks for their 2013 Shark Photo Calendar Contest. Images taken by amateur photographers can be submitted and these will then be put to a public vote. The most voted images will be used in the 2013 Shark Angels calendar. All proceeds from the sales of the calendars will be used in the organization’s Fin Free and Youth Shark Education programs. Full entry details and contest rules are on the Shark Angles website.

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

Last spaces available on Ultimate Indonesia 2012

The last few spaces are now available for the 2012 Wetpixel Ultimate Indonesia expedition. There are 3 spaces on the trip from Kaimana to Sorong, Indonesia (Bird’s Head Peninsula to Raja Ampat), and also 3 spaces on the leg from Sorong to Sorong, Indonesia (Raja Ampat). The former runs from 8 December to 19 December, and the latter from 21 December to 2 January 2012.

Both expeditions are on MSY Damai II, and take in some of the world’s healthiest and most unspoiled reefs, festooned with marine life of all descriptions. These trips are traditionally heavily over-subscribed so these last few spaces offer a tremendous opportunity. If you would like more details, or to make a booking, please don’t hesitate to contact Dan Baldocchi very soon.

Sunday, September 2nd, 2012

Issue 24 Of African Diver available to download

The September 2012 edition of African Diver magazine is now available to download. This issue focuses on diving Africa’s East coast, with articles on Mombasa, Pemba, Mafia, Matemo and Medjumbe. Jan Finsterbusch and Christoph Schaffelhuber report on a diving safari along Southern Africa’s East coast, while Cormac McCreesh reports on the 2012 sardine run. There is also a full report on the Durban Underwater Club shoot out and Camilla Floros is the featured photographer.

African Diver issue 24 is free to download in a pdf format.

Saturday, September 1st, 2012

Underwater Photography Magazine issue 68 available

The September/October 2012 issue of Underwater Photography Magazine (UwP) is now available to download. Issue 68 includes reviews of the Olympus TG-1 and PT-053 by Rob Spray, as well as the Saga 67 flip lens holder and Olympus Nauticam NA-EM5 by Phil Rudin. Brian Pitkin reports on the 2012 BSoUP Splash In, while Dan Bolt writes about Scottish basking sharks. Location features include NASA operations by Mark Widick and Honeymoon or dive trip? by Michael Wicks. Lastly, Jens Tröger covers Macro in the Northwest, and Mark Webster some South West Ramblings.

UwP magazine is available as a free pdf download after a registration process.

Friday, August 31st, 2012

A minute beneath British waves on YouTube

Wetpixel member Jo Horrocks of Cuttlefish Productions has posted a video entitled a film onto YouTube entitled “A minute beneath British waves”, Jo says of her film:

“I wanted to showcase the great variety of life and colour that can be found in UK waters. I’d had an idea to make an in your face, fast-paced video set to an up-beat music track, so I chose a royalty-free music track and built the video to the beats of the music.

“The summer here has not been the best, but I hope this will inspire people to try UK diving, or if they’re not divers, to marvel and admire the life that can be found beneath our UK waves.”

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Sony announces the HDR-AS10 and AS15 POV camcorders

Sony enters the small POV camera market with the HDR-AS10 and HDR-AS15, 2 cameras aimed squarely at GoPro. The cameras use a 1/2.3” 11mp sensor with Steady Shot image stabilization, 2x and 4x super slow motion in 720/30p, shooting at 16mbps and comes with a housing that can go down to 60m. The cameras will be available in September and MSRP is US$269.99 for the AS15 and US$199.99 for the AS10.

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