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UnderwaterUnderwater PhotographyPhotography a web magazine Feb/Mar 2003 Nikon D100 & Colour filters Mating mandarins Subal D10 St Vincent Aquariums Nikon 12-24mm Cornwall Antibes winner Inon Z-220 Crocodiles Classifieds UwP 1 What links these sites? Turn to page 10 to find out... UwP 2 UnderwaterUnderwater PhotographyPhotography a web magazine Feb/Mar 2003 Contents e mail [email protected] 4 Editorial 28 Inon Z-220 49 Crocodiles 7 Readers Lives 8 News,Travel & events 11 New products by Kelvin Aitken by Mark Webster 55 Mating 33 St Vincent mandarins 16 Nikon D100 & Subal D10 by Shaun & Beth Tierney by Deb Fugitt 58 Aquariums 40 Cornwall by Alex Mustard 23 Colour filters by Jurgen & Anne Brauer with Mark Webster 64 Antibes winner Cover photo by by Alex Mustard Jurgen & Anne Brauer by Peter Rowlands 68 Classifieds UwP 3 Jim Church Digital dilemma Editorial I’m sure there’s a lot of When I started UwP it never underwater photographers occurred to me that I would have contemplating a leap into the to write an obituary but news of digital age and they will learn a the death of Jim Church has Hyperlink help lot from Alex Mustard’s saddened the underwater excellent review of the Nikon photography community and led needed! D100 and the Subal D10 housing to many glowing tributes to the in this issue. master teacher. I am reliably informed that I Comparing 35mm film It will always be a regret of can build “hyperlinks” into UwP performance to digital is not yet mine that I never got to meet Jim so that, if you are on line, you on an equal footing but it is in person but we corresponded can click on the link and it will getting very close. When a “full occasionaly via e mail and I read take you to the web site or create frame” 35mm chip is available at his various postings on the an e mail message. a reasonable price we will have a UWPhoto forum. Now I may be reliably similar depth of field but with a Jim was a natural teacher informed but, on this one, I’m much improved white balance and I doubt if there’s an also mentally challenged as I performance and that has to be underwater photographer of my can’t seem to get hyperlinks to worth the wait. generation who didn’t read and work so would any good UwP In the meantime the learn from his excellent books on reader who knows how to set up imminent arrival of the Nikkor underwater photography. He had hyperlinks using Adobe 12-24mm lens will give the a way of explaining even the Pagemaker on an Apple Mac equivalent of an 18-36mm zoom most complicated theory in terms please get in touch? with the Nikon D100 which has which were easy to grasp. I think The reason why I’m keen to a smaller chip then the 35mm his book on Composition is a set up these links is because it format. This will be a very classic example. would then be possible for attractive lens to underwater Nearly all of the tributes advertisers to monitor the photographers who tend to use mention the warmth of the man, number of times their site is much wider lenses than land always willing to impart his vast visited from a UwP link and so photographers and will help to knowledge for the good of others give them an indication of how justify the D100 format as and to take time to listen and successful their advert is in sufficient for the majority of respond helpfully to questions he creating a positive response. underwater photographers needs. must have heard hundreds of Advertisers in conventional The file sizes the D100 can times before. magazines often include a produce will easily reproduce up Jim may no longer be with reference code which tells them to A4 in a quality magazine and us but his wisdom and spirit will where the customer saw the probably larger so, as such, it live on in our lives. advert but UwP should be able to already provides the quality Last year he posted his go much further than that and needed but the advent of the latest list of “Churchisms” on the provide advertisers with much 35mm full frame chip is still the UWPhoto forum and I reprint it more information. light at then end of the digital on the next page in his dear So, please, if there is anyone tunnel. memory. out there who can help, I’d love to hear from you. Peter Rowlands Editor UnderwaterUnderwater PhotographyPhotography magazinemagazine [email protected] is published by PR Productions 13 Langley Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 6QN Tel & fax 00 44 (0)208 399 5709 UwP 4 THE RULES OF CHURCHISM (in random order) 01. Go potty every chance you get. 34. Whatever lens you choose, it 02. Stay out of the sun. won't fit your subject. 03. Avoid making promises. 35. Always hang your dripping 04. Never give undeserved gifts or praise. wetsuit over someone else's locker. 05. Beware of undeserved gifts or praise. 36. Don't shoot in the ocean what 06. Winning an argument may lose a you can shoot in a pool. friend. 37. "Good enough" depends on 07. Never argue if you have nothing to whether your position resembles gain. William Tell's or that of his son. 08. If you must do battle, fight with 38. Never fart if you are the first someone else's troops. person to take a seat in first class. 09. Nothing is what it seems to be, and 39. Heed George Washington's nothing turns out as expected. advice: avoid entangling alliances. 10. It's easier to change a plan than to have no plan. 40. Avoid diving in Russian submarines unless 11. People don't change, they get older. you have a pony bottle. 12. Nobody can predict the future. 41. No matter what happens, somebody will find a 13. What's here today is gone tomorrow, but way to take it too seriously. nothing really changes. 42. A person who is nice to you, but is rude to the 14. Don't say what you don't want repeated. waiter, isn’t a nice person. 15. An erect penis has no conscience. 43. Trust everyone, but cut the cards. 16. Never loan what you can't do without. 44. If at first you don’t succeed, try viagra. 17. Never borrow what you can't pay for. 45. Never give yourself a haircut after three 18. Have a check list and follow it. margaritas. 19. Never dive in water below 80 degrees F. 46. Work is good, but it's not that important. 20. Always pee in your dive suit. (There's no such 47. Be nice to your friends. You never know when thing as a dry suit.) you will need them to empty your bedpan. 21. A fish moves faster than a camera shutter. 48. Nap whenever possible. 22. Don't piss off the golden goose. 49. It's better to have something and not need it, 23. There's no problem you can hide from. than to need something and not have it. 24. Imaginative minds can always find a new 50. Famous last words: "Oh, don't worry about problem or complaint. that; it'll never happen." 25. Rules are made to be wondered about. 51. When all is said and done, much more will 26. When asking a group to assemble, no time is a have been said than done. good time. 52. If you can’t take good photos, go to Church 27. There's no such thing as a water-proof camera, and pray. strobe or housing. 53. Establish the location and supply of TP before 28. If you were smart enough to hide your the need arises stupidity, you wouldn't have to. 54. Another person’s lack of preparation or 29. The reason you dive is to get away from reading of directions isn’t your immediate meaningless conversation. emergency. 30. Always drink upstream from the herd. 55. To start endless conversations, ask any group 31. If you can't have a good time, be a good time. about o-ring grease. 32. If someone else will do a dirty job, let them. 56. Exercise daily, and you will live five months 33. Don't ask for it -- you just might get it. longer--in a $5,000 a month nursing home. UwP 5 UwP 6 A lurker responds Readers Lives Beginners wanted I have just read the Dec/Jan I've just downloaded UWP no.10 issue of the magazine. I issue 10, and am amazed to hear have been enjoying the mag ever that you don't get feed back. since issue no.1. UWP has some nice articles, You seem to be a little and some very nice pictures. mystified by the lack of feedback Obviously no one wants to put you have from your readers. A worldwide magazine from bad pictures on display. But a Don't be; as you no doubt local people "Beginers" section would be know, the web is full of 'lurkers'. nice. Show us a bad picture, then You hit the nail of one of the Regarding your UWP on- show us what was done to make reasons on the head when you line magazine. I note that you it good, that would create enough say that "because it is free, say you have little feedback.