2008
The new Canon EOS 40D was hardly announced when the first manufacturers made their plans for an underwater housing.The well-known manufacturer Hugyfot started the development shortly after the launch of…
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Mastering the operation of an underwater housing is a journey of familiarization. You move through a process of engaging its functionality, employing its ergonomics and adapting to its idiosyncrasies and…
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It is a sunny Saturday. One of my diving buddies comes walking back from the water. He tells me there is a seal lying on the dike. I am sure…
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I am standing on the back deck of the M/V Shearwater and am ready to jump in the water. I have to clear my throat three times and ask myself…
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"Although I have found that even in dull conditions most digital cameras I use underwater have very good auto-focus. There have been odd times when a small focusing light would…
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Between the 19.-27. January the doors of the exhibition halls in Düsseldorf will be opened for Europas largest water spLocation exhibition. More than 1.600 exhibitors from more than 50 countries…
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2007
To dSLR or not dSLR, that is the question. And one that I faced for awhile. Due to a combination of fate and a sale at a local camera shop,…
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The SanDisk Red Sea 2007 Competition took place last week, on the 12th-17th of November, in Eilat, Israel. Over one hundred and twenty underwater photographers from all over the world,…
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Bs Kinetics underwater housings presented two reference housings for photo and video during the Antibes Festival. With them was SONY’s Alpha DSLR -not the latest model A700 though but the…
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As previously announced a few weeks ago, the manufacturer of underwater housings entitled HUGYFOT was able to present a ready-2-dive underwater housing for the Nikon D300 (developed at light-speed) during…
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I really enjoy meeting fellow people of the underwater industry during the prestigious Antibes Festival in France any time I have the chance to visit it. However this year’s visit…
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One of the most exciting new gadget on the festival was the external monitor from seacam for digital SLR cameras. It gives you the flexibility to put the housing with…
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The Starbox is the High-End product from Extrem'Vision for the Sony HD-Z85. It comes in two variations. The low-cost version can be taken down to 60m, whereas the high-cost version…
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Subspace is another manufacturer we met in Antibes the first time, that is not in our database yet, unfortunately. Subspace offers professional video systems ranging from Betacam to new HDTV…
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We are listing a fair amount of underwater housings for digital cameras and camcorders for more then 5 years now. Most of these housings are quite expensive and most of…
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After publishing a article about potential problems with the popular HeinrichsWeikamp TTL converter and a recent firmware update for the Canon EOS 400D last week, some confusion arised. Unfortunately our…
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Last week PhaseOne announced the successor of CaptureOne LE - CaptureOne 4. It is now available as a beta version for early birds, who want to see the next neat…
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The Curacao Dive Festival attracted around 160 international participants with an interesting program including presentations on diving and underwater photography, movie screenings and social events. We will report here what…
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In my review of the Gates Housing for the Sony HC3 I outlined some of the issues that went into my selection of the housing, namely portability and travel. Another…
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In the U.S. the end of March brings an event called March Madness, the college basketball tournament. If you are a diver and live in the North East U.S., March…
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I purchased a Sony HDR-FX1 HDV video camera for a project I was working on and also a Sony HDR-HC3 HDV video camera for the times I did not want…
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2006
This article shall introduce you to some unconventional underwater photography by our member and friend Sharon Rainis. The idea for this article is a result of my curiosity, as I…
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Entrepreneurs may have already asked themselves how to become famous in the dive industry. A traditional way would be launching an IMAX movie, website, photo course or a nice print…
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Greetings from Orlando to all our readers! This year the annual DEMA Show is hosted in sunny Florida. DEMA is the largest dive related tradeshow in North America. I (Andi…
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If there is one housing for the D200 that can be called sexy in my honest opinion, it’s the Hugyfot D200 housing. It’s as compact as a D200 housing can…
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Eighteen enthusiastic divers were practicing their UW photo skills during a four-day workshop in Hamburgsund as Digideep organised their 2nd annual event in Sweden, this time with the theme “Photographing…
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When Olympus released their latest Evolt E-330 7.5 megapixel Live-View digital SLR earlier this year. I knew that this camera was for me. I converted to digital back in 2003,…
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After almost a year in Switzerland I managed to travel to the beautiful canton Ticino. Although I lived here quite a while my geographical knowledge was lousy. Just as I…
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A few friends headed off to the west of Ireland for some diving on the famous skelligs islands for 2 days of diving. The National Geographic did an article about…
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After the Nikon D-200 won an internal battle inside me deciding which way (Canon, Nikon, Olympus) my UWP life should take, it was time for another housing hard choice. The…
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JP Trenque is an underwater photographer, winner of the BBC News Photographer of the Year 2005 competition and (previous) owner of several Nikon cameras and uderwater housings for them. We…
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Phil Simha has provided us with a review of his Canon EOS 5D underwater housing from Seacam. He describes in detail the functions of the camera and also covers the…
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Welcome to our webcast from the 3rd annual DIGIDEEP digital photo and video expedition featuring the new PADI digital underwater photography course. Another time we are about to explore the…
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Everybody is ready to go! Starting from today we are going to post daily updates and photos from the SanDisk RedSea Underwater Photography Competition 2006. To see some pictures and…
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When Sea&Sea late last year announced that they where about to release a housing for the Canon EOS 350D it came perfectly in time for me. I had just decided…
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Digital SLR-Systems from Pentax are handpicked commodities. Even the database of DIGIDEEP only exhibits two housings for the *istDs next to the universal ewa-marine bags. Nothing special - you may…
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2005
The first Digideep European Open shootout took place in the lovely little town Hamburgsund on the west coast of Sweden from the 22nd till the 25th of September. Digideep teamed…
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It was last autumn when SONY introduced the HC-1000E 3CCD camcorder. With our Bahamas Shark Expedition ahead it seemed just right to invest in this very affordable and compact camera.…
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Prepared By Jason Grimes, exclusively for Digideep.com As many of you know, PhaseOne is currently scheduled to release the latest version of its popular Capture One software in late May…
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It continued: “DigiJam promises to be a must for anyone with a passion for underwater digital photography. Ocean Frontiers has teamed up with two other leading Cayman dive centres and…
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2004
For everybody who was unable to join digideep's first tiger shark trip we have put together this online report with exciting pictures and stories. All participants were fortunate to encounter…
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During Photokina 2004, I [Andi] was fortunate to finally meet with Howard Rosenstein from Fantasea Line. Howard has a long and interesting history in underwater photography resulting in an interview…
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This article features an Interview with Tom Leys from Greenforce. A company which recently took care of Hugyfot. The famous handfit aluminium housing company of René Hugenschmidt who retired from…
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Exactly five month ago we reported on a unique encounterbetween a tiger shark and an uw-photographer who involuntarily borrowed his Nikon D100 to the shark. As this story surfaced on…
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Arnold Stepanek made his first underwater camera housing in 1952 and still designs the entire Subal range today. The underwater photography grapevine informs me that the Subal ND70 was designed…
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It is an recurring question: "Will my new digital camera support E-TTL?" And the answer always starts with: "It depends,…". Many digital underwater divers resort to house their system strobes…
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Anyone who ever went shooting macro loves to portrait Pygmy Seahorses. Pygmy Seahorses are so small that they can be easily overlooked when browsing the reefs. Actually it seems like…
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As every year the BOOT EXPO takes place in Düsseldorf, Germany. This year the show celebrates it's 35th anniversary. It still maintains unchallenged as the biggest water sports fair in…
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When I was a small boy, visiting
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2003
Digital photography is becoming a very popular past time for a lot of people. It’s the ease of use and the instantaneous results that makes it so interesting. A person…
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*NOTE* This review covers a pre-production Jonah Canon 10D HousingI recently traveled throughout Indonesia with a Jonah C10 - a prototype housing made exclusively for the Canon 10D digital camera.…
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I recently had the opportunity to travel to Fiji for some liveaboard and land based diving over a 9 day period. This system was put to test for 26 dives…
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We are please to present you a review by well known underwater photographer and marine journalist Michael Aw. Michael took a close look at Aquatica's recently introduced underwater housing for…
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It began with a short note in the wetpixel forum describing a new technique. Alex started a discussion about uw-lightning with digital photography. The use of strobes to get colorful…
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For most divers, the Baltic Sea is probably best known for it's many well preserved wrecks. From a biological point of view, it is also an interesting story. It is…
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