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New Flash from Fantasea - XFLash?
Fantasea will release a new strobe in October. The specs are quite promising, but Fantasea is still unsure about the name. Therefore Fantasea decided to run a competition to have you to help Fantasea to choose a name for the Flash. The winner, whose suggested name is taken, will win a free Nano Double Pro Set (#2077), which is a complete lighting system, compatible with almost any compact digital housing, a value of over 340$. Just send an email to .
20009 Raja Ampat Entry Tag Design Contest
Our friends from Wetpixel host a yearly design contest for the design of the entry tag for Raja Ampat. The contest will be open for submission till 11:59PM, Pacific Time, Thursday, September 25, 2008. The winner has a chance to have the image printed on the 4,000 park tags that will be attached BCDs of visiting divers! Additionally, the first place winner will receive a 7-day, 6-night, all-inclusive dive trip* to Raja Ampat's original eco-resort at Kri, kindly donated by Papua Diving. (*excludes airfares).
Expedition to Spitsbergen with Sony Alpha 350 and BS Kinetics Gibson
In the midst of summer Karin Brussaard has been out to the far polar region to dive and shoot in ice cold water. She took the Sony Alpha 350 in a BS Kinetics housing with her and reports how this duo performs under the extrem conditions in the waters around Spitsbergen. Read more if you are interested in shooting in the waters of the Arctic together with walrusses.
SEA&SEA announces new strobe
SEA&SEA just announced a new version of the YS110 – the new YS110 Alpha. Keyfeatures are a guide number of 22 (land), and increased beam angle of 105 degrees, a LED Focus Light and – besides a classical Nikonos connector – a improved optical TTL function. More infromation here.
Light & Motion releases SR12 Housing
Light&Motion just presented their new Bluefin housing for the Sony SR11 and SR12 camcorders. This compact housing offers electronic controls, a 3.5" high-resolution monitor back and a port selection. The housing is available from now on.
DIGIDEEP video channel on VIMEO
There is something new for all HD filmers and picture quality freaks – the DIGIDEEP Video Channel on vimeo.com. Thanks to our members "Greg W.", who had the idea and "Christian Fries", who put the channel online. On this chnanel, you can upload videos in higher quality as for exemple on youtube. So now, please start uploading, watching and commenting. Here you can find the new channel.
Last-Minute Red Sea Expedition 2008
There is 1 last-minute spot available for our yearly DigiDeep photo expedition from July 8th until 15th. Experience the diverse and vibrant underwater world of the Red Sea together with us. Shoot spectactular nature images accompanied by Lars and Andi and take the chance of winning some prices in our live contest!
Ikelite - New strobe announced
Ikelite has just announced a new strobe - the DS-160, successor of the very popular DS-125. Special features of the new one are an improved energy rating of 160 watt-sec and a 5-watt LED modeling light.Pre-orders now being accepted for limited US release in late July.
Translation by Frank Malotke
CDF’2008: Curaçao Dive Festival Summary
The dive festival is already over since a while, but we don't want to miss the chance to say thank you to everybody who helped organizing and realizing the Curacao Dive Festival 2008. We came home with many great memories and new friends. We have put together a summary with all the articles about this years festival and the dates for next year – hope to see you there.
Zillion housing for EOS 450 D
Zillion just released a housing for Canon´s EOS 450D. The housing named ZAP-KissX2 (Japanese name for the 450D is Kiss X2) is available in different colors like all Zillion housings. Optical fiber cable connectors for strobes are built-in, depth rating is 200 ft.
The Japanese price is 231.000 Yen only, but adding the costs for shipping, taxes and customs might reach a total of 1.950 € (Germany e.g.) European dealers are actually not known.
Translation by Frank Malotke
Sony HDR-CX12 Camcorder
Sony just announced the HDR-CX12. This new camcorder will be released in August and will combine face detection and smile shutter detection. This new function can take video and still at the same time – and the shutter releases automatically in the moment somebody smiles. Not really useful for diving, but still a nice feature.
New housings for Panasonic camcorder from Sealux
Sealux just announced two new underwater housings for the Panasonic HDC-HS9 EG and the Panasonic HDC-SD9 EG camcorder. Both underwater housings are custom-made aluminium housing which have a depth rating to 90m. For shots without a lighting system an internal filter can be used. The new developed infrared control IR 10 enables not only the basic functions like record, zoom and photo, but also the complete operation of the joystick navigation. That allows to operate important functions needed for underwater usage like white balance, IRIS, shutter speed and several more functions and this without any cable needed. There are no movable parts in the housing anymore through the introduction of the infrared control.
Hugyfot HFC-40D Housing Review
Panama means 'abundance of fish' in the indigenous language of one of the Indian tribes. In Coiba this is obviously the case. But due to a minor sight at times, the fish is not always clearly visible. Coiba is the largest island of Panama and consists mainly of ancient tropical rainforest. The Canon 40D is my companion on this trip to Coiba. The underwater housing that will take the Canon EOS 40D underwater is the Hugyfot HFC 40D.
DIGIDEEP Red Sea Expedition 2008 - join us!
It only happens once a year and no real underwater photographer should miss it.
The mating of many underwater creatures in the Northern Red Sea and our annual
DIGIDEEP Red Sea Expedition. Very soon the time will have come, from July 8th until 15th 2008 we will start again. Pictures and videos show what you may expect and what is expecting you - among other things spectactular nature photography accompanied by Lars and Andi and the chance of winning some prices in our live contest.
Remark: There are/is only Canon announces EOS 1000D / Rebel XS
„It does not get better but you can have it cheaper!“ according to this motto Canon has announced the EOS 1000D digital slr camera today. Overseas it also carries the name Rebel XS or Kiss F. This indicates that the 1000D is not the highly anticipated successor of the Canon EOS 5D. Instead Canon has launched a new price-breaker with 10 Megapixels and LiveView. Canon intends to position this product right under the recently introduced EOS 450D. Compared to that model an even lower price might be possible by just offering a 2.5” display, while 3.0” have become a standard. If some manufacturers of underwater housings will plan another product or if existing housings might already fit for this model you may discuss in our forums. At a first glimpse we can only say that the dimension of the camera body look promising.
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| photo: | David Benz |
| camera: | Olympus E-330 |
| housing: | BS Kinetics Sechura Digital |
| strobe: | single INON Z240 |
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