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- Bonaire Digital Shootout 2008
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- Digital Nikonos industry design challenge 4:04am Jul 2
- Waterproof point & shoot digital camera tests 2:28am Jul 2
- Wetpixel Quarterly issue 6 now available 2:45am Jun 28
Digital Photography Review has posted an article comparing 5 waterproof digital cameras: Canon PowerShot D10, Fuji FinPix Z33WP, Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 / 6000, and Pentax Optio W60. The five cameras range in price from $185 to $330, and are waterproof up to 33ft in depth...
Wetpixel is proud to announce the immediate availability of issue #6 of Wetpixel Quarterly magazine...
The World Society for the Protection of Animals is hosting a website to help automate writing emails and printed letters to your Senator in support of the Shark Conservation Act of 2009, a bill designed to help end shark-finning in U.S. waters...
Attention all underwater videographers: we’re extending the Sensational Seas Two DVD video contest by two weeks. Get your entries in for a chance to be featured next to some of the best underwater cinematographers and filmmakers in the world! Entry into the contest is absolutely free...
Wetpixel user Marjo has created a home-made ringflash using see-through plastic kitchenware, a reflective car window solar protector, and one large roll of duct tape...
In early April, Drew Wong wrote about a new BBC series called Nature’s Great Events. Some Wetpixel members saw the film team out in South Africa covering the annual sardine migration...
Renowned underwater photographer and educator Marty Snyderman, Dive Training’s Contributing Editor Barry Guimbellot and Wetpixel’s Eric Cheng have teamed up to create an importable keyword list designed for underwater photographers using Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture...
In March of 2009, we announced New World Publications’ call for entries for its upcoming DVD, Sensational Seas Two...
Dive Guide Thailand have recent launched a free to enter, monthly photo competition with a variety of Thailand based dive trips on offer as prizes. Each month you can enter up to five of your underwater photos taken any where in the world...
Professional underwater photographer Jason Bradley and Adobe’s Bill Stotzner will be conducting two digital workflow seminars for underwater photographers while diving the lush California Channel Islands on the Truth Aquatics Vision and Conception boats from August 23-27, 2009 and...
New underwater photographer Laurel Stewart reviews the Watershot WDS-450D, an underwater housing for the Canon Rebel XSi / 450D...
In addition to the standard categories of Macro and Wide-Angle, a Compact Camera category was also added. Many talented shooters submitted stunning images for consideration for the top prize. To see the top place finishers for Compact, Macro Unrestricted, Macro Traditional, Wide-Angle...
Long-time Wetpixel member Bruce Yates writes about his new Aquatica underwater housing for the Canon 5D Mk II and compares Aquatica housings to Seacam housings (Bruce was a long-time Seacam user). The Aquatica 5DII housing feels solid and sturdy, and every part meshes precisely...
On the heels of the Wetpixel oceanic white-tip shark expedition, Wetpixel editor and publisher Eric Cheng has returned from a trip to the Bahamas to photograph sharks and dolphins. During the trip, he photographed Emma, who is probably the world’s most photographed tiger shark...
Congratulations to grand prize winner Matthew Potenski and the many other winners of this year’s Nature’s Best Ocean Views Contest 2009! Out of nearly 8,000 submitted photos, 26 images have been selected as winners...
In March of 2009, we announced New World Publications’ call for entries for its upcoming DVD, Sensational Seas Two...
Our sponsor and friends at Reef Photo & Video recently sent us photos of the new (and now shipping!) Fisheye FIX LED1000DX and LED500DX focusing lights, successors to the very popular FIX HG20DX halogen light...
After online petitions and unrelenting customer inquiries, Canon finally announces a firmware update to give their revolutionary 1080p ViDSLR EOS 5D Mark II manual exposure control including shutter, aperture and ISO controls...
Alex Mustard and crew have returned from the Wetpixel oceanic white-tip shark expedition to the Bahamas. There is no doubt that we will start seeing dozens of images posted in the trip coverage thread in the Wetpixel forums...
Panasonic has released the DMC-GH1 DSLR with manual controls settings for HD movie capability and continuous recording, breaking 2 of the biggest criticisms of the new hybrid camera category. The GH1 captures HD in 1080/24p and 720/50/60p in 17mbps AVCHD Psf in 60i...
Hello, readers. Just a quick reminder that you can participate in Wetpixel’s underwater photography and videography community on sites other than Wetpixel.com...
Apologies for the lack of a Picture of the Week contest this week! Our queue ran dry and no one was fast enough to think of more competition themes. I’ve put a competition online today (topic: sharks and rays), which will run until end of day Sunday...
Wetpixel is going to Scuba Show 2009 in Long Beach, California this coming May 30-31, 2009! As usual, we are looking for a few enthusiastic volunteers to help at the booth. You’ll get a free pass to the show and a free Wetpixel Quarterly aluminum collector’s box...
We’ve got a great new team of administrators over at the Wetpixel Flickr group, and they’re taking charge over there. The current Flickr group administrators are vazuw, Cal Mero, Ryan Pedlow, Gudge, rtski, Jaw’s Dad, Adam Hanlon and echeng...
Indonesia’s Fisheries Minister Freddy Numberi announced the 3.5 million ha Savu Seas Marine National Park in the Savu Sea. This marine park will be the largest in South East Asia and is situated on a major migration route for 14 whale species including the rare blue whale...
Photographer Clark Little has announced a new book featuring his wave and surf photography called The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little...
Alex Mustard is currently leading a Wetpixel expedition to photograph oceanic white-tip sharks in the Bahamas...
Berkley White of Backscatter has posted a few tips for underwater photographers taking the video plunge with the Canon 5D Mk II...
Wetpixel member Fergus Kennedy (Ferg42) has put up an underwater video taken with the Canon 5D Mk II digital SLR...
During a shoot to document daily migration patterns of Mastigias jellies in Palau, Mark Thorpe and John Friday tested the field effectiveness of three underwater housings for the RED One Digital Cinema Camera...
The Underwater Channel is looking to get 10,000 signatures on a petition to help put an end to shark finning...
Zillion has just released its underwater housing for the Canon 5D Mk II digital SLR. The housing can be configured with two grip styles (traditional and hanging), and features both optical and wired (optional) bulkheads for strobe sync...
We’ve just had a single spot (female) open up on our upcoming trip to the remote Eastern Fields in Papua New Guinea (led by Wetpixel’s Eric Cheng and FiNS’ Tony Wu)...
The BBC has released sample footage of waves and a surfer from South Pacific, an upcoming documentary. The footage is shot in super slow motion (presumably in high-definition) with the new $100,000 TyphoonHD4 camera, which was designed by German high-speed camera expert Rudi Diesel...
Wetpixel’s publisher and editor, Eric Cheng, is featured in the current issue of Digital Photo Pro Magazine in an excellent article written by Sport Diver editor Ty Sawyer...
There is an interesting discussion in the Wetpixel forums about how to photograph a model in a swimming pool. Does one use topside studio lights or underwater strobes? What does one use for a backdrop? What lenses work best? How do you prevent bloodshot eyes in your model...
Aquatica has announced the HD WAVE underwater video housing for Sony HDR-XR500V/520V high-definition camcorders...
February saw the launch of an international competition by The Underwater Channel (UWC) and PADI to find the Face of Australia for The Underwater Channel...
In March of 2009, we announced New World Publications’ call for entries for its upcoming DVD, Sensational Seas Two...
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