Friday, March 11th, 2005

SUBIOS: Seychelles International UW Festival

SUBIOS is Seychelles’ annual underwater festival celebrating the underwater world, through a range of diving and snorkeling activities, and creating awareness with evening programs of film, video and slide presentations by acclaimed local and international guest speakers.

As part of the festival there are also underwater film and photography contests. the Photography and Videography contests run year round, and are open to entries from around the world…

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Light & Motion Stringray III Housing for Sony HC21, HC32, HC42

Light & Motion announces the ultra compact Stingray III housing for the latest Sony MiniDV cameras HC21, HC32 and HC42. Nearly half the size of the original Stingray the super compact Stingray III offers all of the same features of the full size model.

Friday, March 11th, 2005

INON D-2000 S-TTL: Official Explanation

Our “Slave TTL for Digicams” article written by contributor Julian Scheunemann has elicited an official reply from INON Japan:

“Our latest D-2000 strobe employs dramatically advanced technology comparing to existing underwater strobes. Please let us take this opportunity to show a part of our technology used to the D-2000 for deeper understanding of the product for D-2000 owner and better understanding for future D-2000 owner.”

Continue reading for the full article.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Sony HDR-FX1 and Sony HVR-Z1J HDV Underwater Housings

The Sony Handycam HDR-FX1 and Sony HVR-Z1J HDV camcorders are causing huge waves in underwater digital video, and for the first time, moving images in high definition can be captured by a consumer camera in 1080i. Here is a round-up of the underwater housings available for the HDR-FX1 and HVR-Z1J. Instead of consolidating specs and pricing, we’ve just linked to their respective sites.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Ikelite’s 8-inch dome port

Ikelite now offers a genuine Aquatica 8” dome port fitted with a special base plate for use with their housings.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Advertising on Wetpixel

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Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Meet up with other Wetpixel members!

The Wetpixel calendar is a great place to find other digital underwater photographers. If you have scheduled a dive trip somewhere, post your location and dates to see if someone here might want to join you!

Another great place to talk about destination diving is the Dive Destinations forum, where users can post trip reports and anecdotes about specific locations.

We also have a mailing list, which we will occasionally use to announce Wetpixel-related news. Use the mailing list form in the right-hand area of this page to sign up. By default, we do not add you to the mailing list.

Friday, March 4th, 2005

iPod Camera Connector

Gizmodo has published a photo of the soon-to-be-released $30 iPod Camera Connector. I hope it’s fast! The old “innovative” Belkin Media Reader for iPod was so slow that it was unusable.

Of course, if you are using your iPod for what it was originally designed for, it may already be full. Still, it could be a good backup in the event of notebook failure while travelling as a photographer.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Hot topic on the forums: Nikon D2x

As part of the new, improved Wetpixel, we plan to post news items about the hot topics in the discussion forums. We hope that these will make the forum content more accessible to a larger number of members.

A current hot topic at Wetpixel is Nikon’s new DSLR, the D2x. Released within the last week, this new 12.4MP camera has been the cause of much debate and excitement in the DSLR Forum. Threads vary from comparisons of this camera with existing models, to discussion of various housing options and even just general excitment of folks who have received or are waiting to get their hands on it!

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Doug Ebersole, Photograper of the Week

Congratulations to Wetpixel member Doug Ebersole for being this week’s ScubaDiving.com Photographer of the Week! I’ve been in the water with Doug and a bunch of sharks, and he’s great to dive with.

And, his teenaged daughter has over 200 dives! A father who takes his daughter on live-aboard shark trips? Couldn’t ask for a cooler dad.

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