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I wish there was a where dive activity This attitude is fairly typical in today’s What concerns me about this news is that the To In May this year it was announced that all the 4 anyone who has visited Sipadan recently I to themselves “What’s the big deal? We are no charge! upload to the server and be available worldwide at laid out in Adobe Pagemaker, since you asked). page and make the final pdf file of UwP19 (which is T server so to prove just that here is a photo of Deb in a few minutes before the Issue is uploaded to UwP is that the deadline for each issue really only you in time. in we have been able to get UwP19 out miracles of a laptop computer and an Internet Cafe time UwP19 should be published but with the twin in . This meant she would be away at the got an offer to do some research for a future project going well with the production of UwP19 when Deb marketing from Fort Worth, Texas. Everything was and Deb Fugitt handles the website design my base (it’s more of a desk, really) near London Issue of UwP to as good a standard possible from downloading. by how UwP19 has been finalised ready for another amazing thing about the internet is shown distribution costs which helps to keep it free but the internet is that there are no printing and The amazing internet ulamben uploading the files for website. I realise that web site operators will be saying Who said technology isn’t amazing? W Now that I’ve got the photo I can add it to this The other amazing thing about the internet and My responsibilities are to put together each As I am sure you know, the beauty of UwP and ith that done it takes a couple of minutes to Editorial the end of our 3rd year. still available to download and the next Issue will be magazine. It doesn’t get changed, just like a traditional deadlines and when each issue is finished, that’s it. traditional magazine with good old fashioned are in the world”. Well, yes I agree but UwP is a like constantly updating our website from wherever we Where has the time gone? The other benefit is that all Issues of UwP are [email protected] www.mazurypodlodem.prv.pl shipping and any costs. underwater equipment is too expensive for a poor student. I will pay be broken, please send it to me. I will repair and very happy. New It is very expensive for a student. aNikon Coolscan 4000 ED. IVa with 35mm and Kodachrome 100 VS - and scanned them on specific, because in winter light is very soft and short lived. underwater plants left in the ice. The underice mazury photography is very the best background to take underwater landscapes with sunset - parts of know that is not much but in Polish conditions it very good). The thin ice is dive in Polish lakes because the water is clean (water visibility 5 to 15meters - I departament. I love to take photos under ice in winter - this time is the best near the Russian border. Any unwanted underwater photo equipment? www.mazurypodlodem.prv.pl [email protected] LUKASZ OLUKE OGANOWSKI Kind regards Plese visit my website - the english version will be soon.... If you have any underwater equipment which is unnecessary to or may There is a very big problem to buy underwater equipment in my country. I attach some samples of my work. took all underwater photos with a I am studying at The Academy of Fine Art in Gdansk - the photography I am a photographer form Poland - north-east Europe region Mazury- Hi E mail W Readers Lives ant to have your say?

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. 21 within 30 minutes of Nananu-I-Ra Divers offering day trips out to the reefs. T right on the beaches around island. chalet accommodations are located islands is Nananu-I-Ra; here a few Raki. from day trips operating Raki waters, but are now able to be dived aboard dive vessels that ply these accessible only from a few live- Aqua Sea 140 & Slave, Velvia, f16 @1/60 ‘Golden Dreams’. Canon AE1P, Canon 50mm macro, Tussey T300 flat port, (Right) This tiny juvenile lionfish was found hovering among the shallows at V accommodations nearby. Canon T-70, Sigma 15mm lens, in natural light, 50 The jetty area on Nananu I Ra island has a nice beach with two elvia f8@ 1/125 wo dive operators service the area,

The largest of the offshore 22 visit only the inshore sites th . Ra Huge rocky reefs with vertical walls interesting and varied reef profiles. the inshore area has to offer, all had dived to death! discovered, so the area hasn’t been infancy, new sites are still being news here is that diving still in its inshore sites as well. The really good boat journey from the island - plus V travel out to the open water reefs in Island. While th . atu-I-Ra Passage, around one hours Among the dozen or so dive sites Bamboo Reef Divers paradise. Oni Beach at Nananu I Ra Island is a kilometre of uninhabited tropical Among our favourites reefs were - rather than just finning above the reef. ledges gives a feeling of exploring and eroded with caves, holes sharks and a huge puffer fish here. though we did see white-tip reef mostly of smaller colourful species, corals and sea whips. Fish life consists that are lined with gorgonian fans, soft throughs, small caves and big ledges Many of the bommies have swim- 25m to only 6m below the surface. each other, some reaching up from huge bommies sitting very close to Dream-Maker Golden Dreams a collection of { where this Coral Trout, sweetlips and snappers hordes of basslet fish in the shallows. pale-yellow coloured juvenile) and on every dive here (including one tiny shallower sections. We saw Lionfish areas and huge plate corals in the stunning soft corals in the deeper interconnect them, are coated in plus the ridges and reefs that corals. The balance of the bommies, bommies are covered in golden soft comes from; the sides of three big becomes apparent where the name depths from 9m down to 25m. It soon interconnected bommies, with varying article begins} is a large area of port, Aqua Sea 140 & Slave, Velvia, f16 @ 1/60 Anemonefish. Canon AE1P, Sigma 90mm macro, Tussey T300 extended flat (Above)The shallow reef-tops are often covered with anemones and Aqua Sea 140 & Slave, Provia, f5.6 @ 1/60 again, hence the Fijian name meaning ‘Once More’. Nikonos III & 15mm, (Left) The gorgonia ledge at a ‘Dua Tali’ a dive site everyone wanted to to nudibranchs here. sweetlips, lobsters and some terrific mooring. We saw a large school of corals were just below the boat ledges and it seemed the prettiest best soft corals line the walls and what a place to get lost! Some of Fiji’s could be easy to get lost here, but varied from 8m down to 23m and it holes, canyons and ledges. Depths have a mixture of gullies, caves, maze of big reefs and bommies that were always around. Golden Dreams Breathtaker The Maze is just that, a virtual is located adjacent , and is a group of bommies in only 6-8m deep. The anthias covering the tops of most stunning soft corals and swarms of Lady) anemone fish. barracuda, mackerel and some great moray eels, schooling snapper, whalers and black-tips. We also saw almost guaranteed sightings of are always found here, along with sharks around Raki Raki, white-tips This wall is the best place to see steep wall falling to beyond 100m. ridge of reef that finishes abruptly at a bommies reaching up from a long th . Marama Totoka (Beautiful has some shallow reefs with th

. 23 underwater conditions. The best that we saw were - able to dive some of the best sites in fantastic period of strong south-easterly winds but were still that rise from phenomenal depths, we visited in a sites. These are all open ocean dives on pinnacles the Vatu-I-Ra Passage offer some beautiful dive caves. bommies, where we explored ledges and small is some deeper water on the outer extremities of bommies come out of 12-15m water, though there hung just off the reef. Trevally arrived in bursts, non-stop, a huge school of surgeonfish and fusiliers corals and gorgonian fans, pelagic fish action was was out of sight. The entire reef was covered in soft around the rest of small pinnacle, bottom side has a ridge leading away at 27 metres, but starting at 7 metres with almost vertical walls. One

Black Magic Mountain The reefs further offshore from Raki in 24 is a solitary pinnacle The wall has a series of large crevices running into metres where the bottom sloped out to deeper water. the surface, this dropped vertically to between 10-18 with the bright yellow everywhere and one big overhang was ‘dripping’ to 40 metres on another side. Soft corals were metres down to 25 on one face and vertical paraded past. The reef has a series of ledges from 8 sand beyond 30 metres, while big schools of fish life very active. Grey reef sharks hover over the through the middle. The current here keeps the fish double-topped pinnacle with a shallow channel what a dive! thousands of basslets surrounded the soft corals - and on the reef were coral cod, sweetlips, plus school of barracuda hovered at the edge ridge, sending the fusiliers into on each pass. A Garden of Eden G-6

was a heart pounding drift around had a reef just meter below Siphonogorgia f22 @ 1/60 Sea 140 & Slave, Velvia, extended flat port, Aqua macro, Tussey T300 AE1P, Sigma 90mm offshore reefs. gorgonia fans on the Gobies inhabited most (Right) Groups of Cling Provia, f13.5 @ 1/60 Aqua Sea 140 & Slave, Nikonos III & 15mm, surrounded by basslets. colourful soft corals crests are a mass of (Left) The shallow reef- soft coral. th . Canon th . oysters, angelfish, leaf fish and lots of coral cod in anemone fish darting around, scorpion fish, painted nudibranchs, a small anemone with dozen reef had lots of interesting macro life; dragon them are coated with a bright yellow soft coral. This at about 18 metres to a deeper bommie, both of that cruised past checking us over. saw parrotfish, scorpion fish and a group of waloo are surrounded by thousands of basslets. We also slope has beautiful small bommies where soft corals huge gorgonian fans and soft corals. The deeper the reef face, these can be entered carefully to view Mellow Yellow is a shallow bommie connected the crevices. concluded that the Fijian people were disappointed, after two trips here we friendly. Well we certainly weren’t great, you’ll find them so warm and the same thing - The Fijian people are because everyone we spoke to told us comment in particular stood out, our inaugural dive trip. Yet one accounts from visitors to Fiji before themselves. We had heard many found in Fiji was the native Fijians highly recommended. Saturday’s at Raki township is or the once-a-week market on waterfalls; traditional Fijian villages are available to the mainland visit walked around the island. Day trips mangroves along the shore or just beachcombing and exploring meandering around. leaf fish plus all the usual reef a turtle, beautiful gobies, nudibranchs, pipefish, big sweetlips being cleaned, current. Finds here included ghost where all the action was - without and just hung-back around the area into a howling current, turned around bloom. We swam around the corner gorgonians and soft corals all in full explore, and ridges loaded with life. Lots of ledges and mini caves to very little current, but buzzed with reef. We loved this place as it had of Eden Pot Luck One of the greatest attractions we On our non-diving days we went and is the corner of same is adjacent to Garden @ 60th. Nikonos III & 15mm, Aqua Sea 140 & Slave, Provia, F5.6 home to schooling surgeonfish, fusiliers and basslets. (Right) @ 1/60 T300 extended flat port, Aqua Sea 140 & Slave, Velvia, f19 of anemonefish. (Above) The reef-top at the ‘Pinnacles’ has many varieties season (December to April), but metres. Diving is possible in the rainy while inshore is between 10-20 over 30 metres on the offshore sites, prevail. Underwater visibility is often when rainfall is least and sunny days from May through to November, days or even hours. after only meeting them for a few of them treating us like old friends the friendliest we had ever met, most The best time of year to visit is th The vertical walls of Black Magic Mountain are . Canon AE1P, Sigma 90mm macro, Tussey www.bambooreefdivers.com address is [email protected] or web I-Ra Island. e-mail at Bamboo Beach Resort on Nananu- in the Raki area are; inshore sites. particularly on the can be restricted, underwater visibility Bamboo Reef Divers Dive Operators - are based www.radivers.com [email protected] or web address is W ananavu Beach Resort. e-mail Ra Divers Bethams Beach Cottages On Nananu-I-Ra Island; Places to Stay - are located at

; 25 and www.bethams.com.fj/. Bethams is http:// dormitories. Web for Address They also have back-packer transfers to and from the mainland. essentials, plus they arrange boat and shop to purchase food beach. Both have a small restaurant accommodations, right on a beautiful are both self-contained chalet McDonalds Nananu Beach Cottages Slave, Provia, f8 @ 1/60 ledges, where soft corals thrive. Nikonos III & 15mm, Aqua Sea 140 & (formerly the Mokusigas Island our last visit, hilltop was being refurbished during

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[email protected] 27 Concern in the Galapagos A report from Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson

The Sea Shepherd conservation research ship Farley Mowat arrived in In preparation for the strike, the Puerto Ayora, Galapagos on the rangers had strung up barbed wire morning of May 6, 2004. As the ship barricades at the Park office entrances was clearing Customs and on Santa Cruz and Isabela Islands. Immigration, a fishing boat passed Eighty fishermen marched close by, escorted by Park rangers. On through the streets of Puerto Ayora on the deck were a number of recently the morning of May 7th , brandishing slaughtered Galapagos sharks. signs and loudly screaming through It was a timely arrival. It was the megaphones for the government to eve of a threatened strike by give them what they wanted. fishermen that promised more And what they wanted was to violence against the National Park. take more than the biologists The fishermen who have already laid considered ecologically safe to take. waste to entire areas of sea cucumbers In fact the biologists had warned that demanded an extended season to none was too many! further exploit the surviving numbers The decision was to be made at of the species. noon on the mainland in Ecuador. At one dollar an animal, and with Out at anchor, the crew of the Out at anchor, the crew of the Farley Mowat saw a large Ecuadorian tuna the demand climbing from the Asian Farley Mowat saw a large Ecuadorian seiner, the Rocio enter the bay, it came straight towards us. Her shape was market, the sea cucumber has been tuna seiner, the Rocio enter the bay, it familiar, similar to the dolphin under intense from came straight towards us. Her shape killing tuna seiners we have long exploitation for many years. As the was familiar, similar to the dolphin clashed with in the Eastern numbers decrease, the demand and the killing tuna seiners we have long Tropical Pacific. price increase. clashed with in the Eastern Tropical Photo right ©2000-2004 The Galapagos National Park is Pacific. Bonnie Pelnar very much aware of how dangerously She circled, took aim at us and threatened the sea cucumber is. Each then dropped her anchor as close as year, hundreds of thousands of these she could. Her crew were jeering and small creatures are confiscated from when spying our female poachers, unfortunately all dead. crewmembers began to make obscene 28 demands without resistance and had had capitulated to the fishermen’s materialize. The government in Quito the strikers. that they were in the Bay to support rangers confided in me his suspicion shore for medical care. One of the witnessed no one being removed to medical emergency although we the tuna seiners were claiming a gestures. r sea cucumbers. (Sea cucumbers are A Park Ranger examining confiscated elated to sea urchins and starfish.) At noon, the strike did not According to the Park rangers, between nature defenders and alone illustrates the vast chasm that four million is not enough. This the exploitation side position is feeling is that none too many. On demanded more. fishermen that they should have this there was grumbling among the (sea cucumbers) from the sea. Despite five days to loot four million pepinos the quota they were demanding. Forty allocated to them the extension and slaughtered Galapagos sharks. On the deck were a number of recently close by, escorted by Park rangers. Immigration, a fishing boat passed As the ship was clearing Customs and On the conservation side company, Bell South is well as recently 1993. Today the U.S. thermals. rocks, frigate birds circled the town on scurried excitedly over the shore the score, lava lizards and red crabs footed boobies dove into the Bay by themselves on the sidewalk, blue removed. Marine iguanas sunned to the island if an old car was policy that a car could only be brought low, there was one internet cafe, and a Puerto Ayora was quiet, prices were we first began our project in 2000. that I have seen in these islands since May 7th, I contemplated the changes of the Port Captain’s office. ashore in the daylight within full view smuggling a boatload of large fish before our crew witnessed them Bay later in the afternoon but not and sea cucumber delicacies in Asia. insatiable demand for shark fin soup are being exterminated to satisfy the marine reserve for shark fins. for pepinos and ruthless looting of the systematic plundering of the seabeds how subsistence has been replaced by the Galapagos and see for yourself fishermen destroyers, I say come to I reveal my bias when call the destroyers. And for those who say that The first telephone was installed Four years ago, the town of As the sun set in evening of The tuna seiner left Admiralty Both sharks and sea cucumbers the Park rangers, scientists at objectives of science. This includes the Marine Reserve and to pursue who are here to protect the Park and four distinct divisions. There are those Hawaiianization of the Galapagos. We year. number is expected to be greater this tourists visited the Galapagos. The restaurants with meat. cattle and goats to provide the The hillsides of the islands breed grouper, tuna, barracuda and shark. diversity from shellfish, lobsters, seafood cornucopias ranging in are plentiful, and the menus boast of internet cafe, restaurants and hotels There is no problem finding an begun operations to the mainland. second airline AeroGAL has also from and to the mainland every day. A days, there are three TAME flights once flew to the island every three the bush. Whereas TAME airlines vehicles roar down the street and into and trucks four wheel all terrain There are three times as many cars the mainland arriving every day. town has grown with migrants from access and cell phones. established with pay phones, internet are witnessing the

A society is evolving that has Last year, a record of 95,000 I have watched each year as the 29 arrived migrants from the mainland of Ecuador who fishermen and the much larger group of recently can be divided into the original subsistence profit as their first priority. relatively new guides from the mainland who see their passion for nature. The second category are guides who are involved because of their love and guides there are two categories. The first are the restaurants, hotels and internet cafes. Amongst the scuba diving, guided tours, eco-tourism boats, in the tourist industry. This includes licensed guides, Conservation Society and WildAid. profit organizations like the Sea Shepherd Darwin Research Center and representatives of non- cell phones. established with pay phones, internet access and 1993. Today the U.S. company, Bell South is well The first telephone was installed as recently as 20,000 and 30,000 people now live in the islands. Many express surprise when informed that between

The third group are the fishermen. This group The second group are those who employed 30 been working to support the efforts of the for profit. isles as nothing more than a place to be exploited heavy assault by those who see these enchanted the deep to die a slow death. ripped off while still alive and then tossed back into the bottom of dive sites after having their fins hammerhead and Galapagos sharks decomposing on genitalia to be sold the Asian markets, of dead poachers, of Galapagos seals mutilated for their number of shark fins routinely confiscated from trucks and buses. where hundreds are struck down every day by cars, number of small birds lying dead on the roads around competing with wild birds for food and the dogs and cats, at the number of chickens running dead iguanas lying after attacks by domestic the wild when rats can no longer threaten them. station until they are large enough to be returned tortoises must be captured and raised at the Park million feral goats on Isabela Island, that the baby people now live in the islands, that there are a half when informed that between 20,000 and 30,000 and unique species of birds. Many express surprise populated with giant tortoises, magnificent iguanas the Galapagos at all envision a natural paradise spearheading the destruction of Galapagos. resident species and it is this group that fishermen who are causing the most damage to before returning to South America. It is these see the islands as a temporary place to plunder The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has The Galapagos are in serious trouble and under And they would be horrified to witness the They would be surprised also at the number of Most of the rest world if they think The fourth group is the Ecuadorian military. contribution of the fast patrol vessel Galapagos National Park for four years now. Our rest of the world’s threatened places? cannot save the Galapagos, how can we the Galapagos. It is our line in sand. If we pledged to continue devote time and funding incredible islands must be an international effort. and the responsibility for protection of these Galapagos Marine Reserve are World Heritage sites and of course - money. materials, equipment, law enforcement instruction fleet. Negro Guadalupe River illegal fishing activities. led to the intervention and capture of numerous www.seashepherd.org/donate.shtml . conservation work, please visit: To learn how to support our The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is The Galapagos National Park and the But we need to do more. The Parks need The is being built to reinforce the enforcement Sirenian and a third vessel the is supported by the patrol vessel support. your welcomes Society Conservation Shepherd Sea Sirenian Sierra has images when science is the priority. gives time to create high quality aboard is always short, which rarely Submersibles are expensive and time but they have always been scarce. images from the deep for many years, scientists have been bringing back is fundamentally unsatisfying! Marine images from the top 1% of ocean world around us. So just having have an inexorable curiosity about the cortex are from our eyes. We also 40% of the sensory inputs to our scratching the surface. diving photographers are only just depth of the ocean. It’s fair to say that which is not even 1% of the maximum take pictures as deep about 100m, adventurous than I am and they may depth. Technical divers are a bit more that’s less than 1% of the average rarely take photos deeper than 30m, such a volume of habitat. As a diver I comprehend such a volume of water, than 1000m. I’ve never been able to earth’s surface and 88% of it is deeper metres deep. It covers 71% of the By Alexander Mustard and Daniel Jones Photography Remotely Operated We On average, the ocean is 3800 humans are visual creatures, the scientists to bring back some really The SERPENT project has also enabled scientific use of this ROV standby time. the offshore industry to make the best Centre, has been set up with partners in hosted at Southampton jobs. A new scientific project, SERPENT, vehicles sit idle on the seabed between a normal working day many of these from the surface uses valuable time, so in The lengthy trip that ROVs make to and exploration and routine maintenance. invested in a large ROV fleet for both explored further offshore, they have clock. system and can work right around the vehicle and the underwater camera that offer real time control of both the of remotely operated vehicles or ROVs photography came with the proliferation The real change for deep sea chance to create an interesting image. photographer, and basically rely on no chance for intervention by the sequences. However, these systems offer and are excellent for time lapse systems are preset and fire autonomously Lowered, towed and fixed camera As the Oil and Gas Industry has

An ROV being launched. North of Scotland. 31 fibre optic line in the images are passed to the surface via a the camera. Instead preview screen needs to be down there with There is no reason why the LCD looking through an optical viewfinder. actually having to be down there screen frees the photographer from came with digital cameras. The LCD breakthrough for ROV photography ocean. exciting new images from the deep Scotland. Kongsberg oe14-208 camera. 14.4mm lens. 1/250 grows up to 75cm long and was photographed at 600m depth. North of C) and feeds on brittle stars. It This eelpout lives in very cold deep water (-2-5 T

echnologically the real 32 The study area was on the east bank water in the Faroe-Shetland Channel. latest SERPENT mission in 600m of configuration that we used on the describe the ROV and camera still fairly bespoke, so here we will umbilical. returned to the camera back down control commands can then be for deep water work. The camera The umbilical can be up to 10km long that attaches the ROV to surface. ROV photographic equipment is th @ f4.5. huh agn rm-. o+ C. though, ranging from -1.9 to +1 at the seabed is very cold icebergs these days! The water last ice age, since there are no probably deposited here during the melted. This material was most the underside of icebergs as they gravel, sand and boulders dropped of scattered with ice rafted material: Scotland, UK. The seabed here is of the Channel, 180km north No other details available. Photographed at 350m depth. North of Scotland. Kongsberg oe14-108 camera. A discarded barrel attracts a ling, an Echinus urchin and a basket star. The camera equipment is Simrad’s new oe14-208 digital colour The camera we used was Kongsberg end and a glass window at the other. metal cylinder, with connectors at one instrumentation, the housing is a T levers and dials for manual control. obviously does not need buttons, to withstand the great pressure, but is the housing, which needs to be able shallow water kit. The main difference actually pretty much the same as ypical of most deep ocean the camera’s controls, without any laptop. The GUI gives us access to all (Graphic User Interface) run on a easy with the Kongsberg GUI downloads. shooting over 200 images between a 4 x optical zoom, and is capable of most efficiently. It has 5 megapixels, built into the housing to use space on a normal digital camera, but is titanium housing. The camera is based still camera housed in a 3000m rated Gulf of Mexico. unusual species in deep water. This rattail was filmed on video at 3000m depth. The next stage of the SERPENT project will be to take still images of more Controlling the camera is very speed is pretty irrelevant and set to light at these depths, so the shutter than the flash. There is no ambient aperture to ensure a good exposure was often easier to adjust the camera’s minimum of -2 stops. In practice it a maximum of +2 and down to GUI in 1/3 of a stop increments up to power output is controlled from the rated titanium housing. The flash 242 flash housed in another 3000m provided by a single Kongsberg oe11- noticeable delay. Lighting was critters. The pan and tilt unit is to get eye level shots of benthic seabed, which means it is not possible camera is about 70cm above the shortcoming of this system is that the from the camera. Another cannot be positioned independently both are on the same unit, flash position and aiming. However since unit on the ROV that controls their mounted on a hydraulic pan and tilt the fastest synchronisation speed. lights (right at the bottom), video camera (top left), a low light (bottom right) and pair of right, and the flash tube is bottom left. Also mounted on the arm are colour Kongsberg camera system on the pan and tilt arm. The housing is top Both the camera and flash are

photographer is having the stealth of a important skills of an underwater good images. One of the most pilots are obviously crucial to getting and tilt! The ROV and the skill of its make fine movements with the pan centimetres with its thrusters than to easier to reposition the ROV by a few Surprising as it sounds, is often lens is zoomed in for close-up shots. frustratingly jerky especially when the hydraulic the fine movement can be operated by joystick, but being 33

skills than the photographer’s. probably more reliant on the pilot’s good images from an ROV are something the size of a car! Producing like trying to creep up on it in underwater imagine what it would be fish with a rushed approach scaring it off. Next time you spook a subject to get a good image without essential to get close enough a hunter. A slow and careful approach is lens. Photographed 600m depth. North of Scotland. Kongsberg oe14-208 camera. 23mm Northern shrimp and brittlestars climb up on sponges to get into the current to feed. 34 thrusting of the ROV does not wash sediment disturbed by the down subjects into the current, so that seconds. We usually approach muddy seabed into a blizzard in thrusters, that can transform the bow wave and wash from the hydrodynamic problems such as a behemoth sized ROV causes In addition to stealth, the Jack Spiers, in the Skin Diver know least well. Lil Borgeson and planet. And this is the 99.5% that we inhabitable space for life on our represents more than 99.5% of the thin veneer of terrestrial life the ocean habitat for life. In comparison to the vast volume of water as potential size and depth of the ocean offers a publicising our science. The great images are also a great benefit for more information. Strong exposed images reveal much because clear, sharp, correctly possible images is important sea. Creating the best animal behaviour in the deep first time observations of has already achieved many doing. The SERPENT project any experimental work we are transects, which complement quadrats or by making video data by using the images as can also collect quantitative from our observations. We their ecology and behaviour these areas and to learn about identify the species living in scientific photography is to clear enough for photography. minutes for the visibility to easy and it can take several each subject is not always the vehicle in this way for into the frame. Repositioning The main aim of this know the deep ocean that bit better. images they are helping us get to it’.” As ROVs bring back more deep’ or that ‘we just can’t fathom our understanding we say it is ‘too the planet. When something is beyond unknown world which covers most of uneasy awe we feel towards the with the ocean is; out how ingrained our unfamiliarity Handbook published in 1960, point Centre. Southampton Oceanography the SERPENT Project and E&P UK PLC, Dr Ian Hudson, Tr Discoverer Deep Seas, and Tony Kastropil on the Rob Dunn & Duncan Miller T ROV crew on the Jack Bates ony Church, Chris Combe, ansocean, Subsea 7, TOTAL www.serpentproject.com We “Our language reflects the Alexander Mustard and Daniel Jones. would like to thank the 35 with the fish. breath in order to get down play problem of having to holds one’s tables. There is of course the small harnesses, tanks and decompression experience free from constrictive Freediving is exactly that, a diving potential of breath-hold diving. relatively few explore the full before they take up Scuba diving, yet by Sascha Schulz “Look Mum! No bubbles”

Most people learn to 36 with 1-2 minutes bottom time it is position or picture composition. Even offered, regardless of his body The freediver must take the first shot for 15 minutes to get that perfect shot. limits. It simply isn’t possible to wait the photographer by his own physical is the time constraint imposed upon scuba, and that done whilst freediving, between photography carried out on Perhaps the biggest difference strobes. housing, no external with PT-015 Olympus C5050Z taken using an All photos were wander from the shallows to contrast, a freediver can dive the plan”. In sharp saying is “plan the dive, and community the common possible. In the scuba the sheer volume of photos constraint can be regained by photos. What is lost to time to well over a hundred 4 hour period that can equate on a single dive. Yet over a 3- to take more than 3-4 photos extremely unusual for myself worth of the water column, buoyancy region is about 2m freediver. At best the neutral issue of importance to the unfavorable to photography. abandon an area that proves his locations, and quickly the photographer can chose freedom that entails means decompression. The degree of surface intervals or without worrying about the deep walls and back again Buoyancy is another

lighting before descending. This equates plan the approach, shot framing and like to stay away from the subject and out how to get into position for a shot. I portion of the dive can be spent figuring example, creates other problems. A good lessens, but lying on a , for against . At depth the problem challenging, as waves and conspire steady shot becomes particularly from 1m down to 20m. In the shallows a yet photo opportunities commonly range 37 group of scuba divers, and ended up with vastly lighting opportunities to make up for the handicap. speeds and paying more attention to the natural to dive without strobes, instead using slower shutter cumbersome strobe arms are another matter. I prefer resolved by adjusting one’s weightbelt, but the harder for a freediver. The extra weight issue can be two things certain to make a smooth ascent lot weight and reduces the hydrodynamics of a diver, mandatory. But a strobe arm and both adds ambient light is low enough that a strobe almost scuba equipment. required for the shot due to extra weight of would have had no chance of staying in the position swell. Whilst this may seem extreme, a scuba diver wrapped around a pylon to counter the surging taken whilst I was upside down, with my legs firmly to co-operate. The Blotched Hawkfish photo was dive can go horribly awry when the subject refuses quality photo in the bag. Yet even the best planned to a more focused dive and ultimately better

Many times I have dived the same sites as a At greater depths, from 10m downwards, the 38 apertures and shooting modes is inexpensive experimenting with different shutter speeds, satisfied with the quality. This also means that means that I can take photos of a subject until endless memory capacity of my 1Gb mini drive, merits the instance it is taken, and seemingly in leaps and bounds. The ability to judge each shots digital camera and have watched my skills improve less enjoyable too. I now shoot an Olympus C5050 relative expense of each photo made the experience usually kept one or two shots per roll of film. The I was often disappointed in the quality of shots and started my photographic career using a Nikonos 4A made freedive photography more attractive. Having never even see them. divers floating on the surface, whilst those below species of fish, particularly pelagics, will approach photograph inquisitive pelagic species. Many quickly compensated for by the opportunity to some of the more difficult to approach subject is different photographic opportunities. Missing out on The advent of cheaper digital cameras has yourself and always dive with a buddy. is worth your life, so take the time to inform such as Shallow Water Blackout. No photo photography, whilst freediving, should be aware of a dangerous sport. Anyone wishing to undertake digital camera first, a film second. photography to the next level should consider a rewarding. Any freediver wanting to take his A note of warning to finish upon: Freediving is Sascha Schulz equipment. Some complain that’s it’s shots taken with the most basic readers would be interested in seeing extract from his email “I think our suggestion for an article. Here is enjoying my vacation, the Ed had a had mail. Clearly keen to stop me my computer was flashing up that I and devious mind moments later technology? Well, Peter has a quick So where’s the bad side of quick email to the Editor tell him. fantastic and took a moment to send reflection photo on the cover was that Deb Fugitt’s pike blenny round the world! Anyway, I thought magazine subscriptions followed me tips into practice. If only my other have time to read it and put the latest up the magazine while I’m away and think its very cool to be able pick and download UWP 18. Frankly, I into the phone line in my hotel room here I’ve been able to plug my laptop Grand Cayman and while I’ve been few years ago. I am currently in that wouldn’t have dreamed possible a T hate relationship with technology. with Giles Shaxted By Alexander Mustard Back to Basics echnology allows me to do things Like most people, I have a love as UW digital gets! The box lists its 013 housing. This is about as simple C220 digital compact camera and PT- the ideal tool with me: an Olympus The plot underwater images?” capture a range of pleasing expensive and advanced technology to “Do we really need the most photography, and asking the question technology of underwater Going back to basics, in terms of the So that is what this article about. with their expensive equipment...”. all very well for your contributors Fortunately, I happened to have Giles with the little Olympus! The camera is tiny compared with the twin strobed project. seemed an ideal accomplice for this before I knew what a megapixel was, shooting digital underwater since dive centre Fisheye, and has been as the photo-pro at well known out. Giles, who has previously worked member Giles Shaxted could try it Grand Cayman so that fellow YUP the members. I had brought it to Ocean Optics and is shared between Group (www.yup.digideep.com) by Y The camera was donated to YUP - the 3x times optical zoom and that’s it! fantastic features: 2 megapixels and oung Underwater Photographers’ we only dived it on Fridays - Giles’s dives and one snorkel trip! Oh, shore diving, and in total made 5 decided to use it only when we were until we had perfect shots. So sites in Cayman, diving endlessly repeatedly to the most exotic dive would be unfair if we took the camera with other cameras. We also thought it pocket when either of us was shooting tiny, small enough to slip into a BC most basic form. The whole thing is are available, using the camera in its any of the supplementary lenses that chose not to add an external flash or To

keep the technology basic, we 39 was going to be limited by its photography with the C220 were sure that our flexibility and control, so we cameras that offer much more The evaluation sharpening after resizing. backscatter removal and see here to auto-levels, minor in preparing the pictures you to limit our use of Photoshop day off! Finally, we decided 5mm lens. 1/100 accurately select an interesting composition. Olympus C220. mode. The large, well shaded LCD screen makes it easy to Macro shooting is usually handled very well in fully automatic

Both of us are used to 40 th @ f13. Automatic (GS). shutter, and waits until the starts when you press the endless period of time that shutter delay - a seemingly many digital compacts is other major limitation of illuminate large subjects. The not powerful enough to lighting up backscatter and housing, is ideally placed for flash, coming from within the for macro underwater. And its for scenery nor tight enough land, but neither wide enough standard mid-range, ideal on technology. Its lens covers a Automatic (AM). on the Scorpionfish. Olympus C220. 5mm lens. 1/25 exposure time and balance the ambient light with flash-fill The night-time flash mode was used here to lengthen the technically speaking, and starting with the easiest, of shots we decided to try, Below is a list of the 5 types camera would want to take. that any owner of this sort mounts; the sorts of images done using our more usual of images that we would have to take all the different sorts the best evaluation was to try subjects. That said, we felt cause problems with moving Clearly this was going to actually taking a picture. fish has swum away before behavioural image flash and ambient light illuminated with a balance of subject image of a slow moving impossible: considered nigh-on finishing with what we )a split level shot 5) a moving animal 4) a wide angle scene 3) a fish image 2) Close-up, flash-lit 1) th @ f8. first was to increase the flash two other approaches. The subject and we mostly used a bit fiddly to do for each new through the menus, but this is exposure can be compensated despite its auto control. The overexpose the subject, distances the flash would Sometimes, at such close frame. This worked well. out to get the subject in often with the lens zoomed close-up function turned on) subject as possible (with the shooting from as close to the using the classic approach of camera’s metering. We started easily controlled by the source (the flash) would be subject, and the single light internal flash to illuminate the backscatter and allow the distances would reduce Small camera to subject lit with the camera’s flash. strengths and shoot close-ups playing to the camera’s dive, we decided to start by T outside the Dive-Tech shop at flash Close-ups with urtle Reef, before our first Sitting on the benches we either need wide apertures or long exposures to light and flash exposure. In UWP 18 I wrote that provide the differential manual control of ambient of a predominantly automatic camera that does not where we thought would expose the limitations look underwater. Achieving balanced light is an area with blue backgrounds that show the fish as they wanted balanced light fish pictures - flash lit shots technique, but to make things a bit tougher we lot of fish photography can be done with the macro would be a high priority for most photographers. A next on our list was fish photography. This, we felt, number of pleasing pictures we had to forge on and with the close-up technique and produce a large rays, we decided that although could continue the suntrap behind dive shop. Soaking up get out of the water, have a shower and warm up in photography Balanced light fish supplementary lens would solve this. size of a postcard, but I am sure that area the camera could photograph was about lens was not really capable of true macro, smallest pictures were correctly exposed and well lit. The than we expected and from our first shots the have said above, the camera performed much better well and can be done very quickly. Despite what I light. I know that sounds crude but it worked really finger across the flash a bit, cutting off some of the second approach, that I favoured, was to slide my zooming the lens in to get same shot. The After a long photo-dive it was very pleasant to to subject distance, by moving back a bit and ambient light. Slow moving fish like scorpionfish exposure time down to correctly the slow flash synch mode, where the camera slows exposure using the night scene flash mode. This is a coming into the camera, and to lengthen upwards increasing the amount of natural light backgrounds with the Oly was to shoot slightly shallow water. The easiest way to get blue get nice blue backgrounds in all but brightest, C220. 5mm lens. 1/15 background with this French Angelfish. Olympus night-time flash mode, has produced a pleasing blue Again a long exposure, produced in auto using th @ f8. Automatic (AM). was clear that the only pleasing scenic images we and flash seemed a perfect recipe for backscatter. It water, and with such a small distance between lens the camera. Indeed, shooting through so much hope of lighting the subject with internal flash second the longer light path would mean we had no subject would reduce the clarity of our images. And First the extra water between camera and back away. But this would cause two problems. the entire subject into frame we would need to challenge without a wide angle lens! In order to fit knew wide angle was always going to be a tough Discussing our progress over a chilled beverage, we Sunset House for afternoon and evening dives. Wide angle scenery shoot simple. fish shots with blue backgrounds become point and right fish at the time, use night flash mode and everything is possible with shutter delay, get the busy stuffing its face with a sponge. So while not doing something. The French Angel, pictured, was much. Alternatively, look for fish that are busy the rapid autofocus of a modern SLR. photography than zapping free swimming fish with it is a bit more like shooting Nikonos for fish Therefore fishy images need to be planned; I guess considerable and there are no miracle cures. the shot cuts delay in half, but it is still delay. Half pressing the shutter as you are framing to shoot with a camera significant shutter they swim, and this makes them much more tricky were now easy. The problem with most fish is that

A big bowl of pasta later we relocated to territorial fish tend not to move about too Picking the right subject is key to success: 41 images deeper than this, but we felt that filters were added coloured filters to help us take produce reasonably colourful shots. We could have the auto-white balance of camera allowed us to could get would be with available light. lens. 1/60 disguise the lack of colour! Olympus C220. 5mm Shooting in black and white is a good way to angle it is best to shoot with only available light. backscatter and not the main subject, so for wide The internal flash is only going to light up

In shallow water (less than 5m) we found that 42 th @ f2.8. Flash Off (GS). Behaviour afterwards in Photoshop. not available their effect can be easily achieved toned monochrome modes, but if these features are The Olympus has both Black and White and Sepia- light to achieve even illumination of the subject. downward camera angle makes best use of ambient underwater downwells from above. Often a slightly when composing the shot. In generally light the direction of available light advantageously striking in black and white, especially when you use images. Underwater images can look particularly Instead, deeper, we concentrated on monochrome not basic equipment and chose to use them. observation. The shutter delay of the camera makes moment” of behaviour takes patience and careful one pair spawn! embrace that you see here, before I had even seen cracking shot of the barred hamlets in a spawning exactly what to expect and was able show me the D100. When we returned a week later, Giles knew familiar with the behaviour while I shot on my spawn, so Giles spent most of the first dive getting deal to me! Not many people have watched hamlets out for a beer later in my trip. Seemed like good instead of hitting the apres SCUBA, I would come would waste a couple of Friday nights watching fish fish as possible so I did a deal with Giles: if he Hamlets. I was keen to get as much time with the particularly that most Caribbean group of fish the Cayman was photographing reef fish spawning, Rather like fish photography, capturing “the One of the projects I was working on in Grand can be achieved. image Giles produced of the hamlets shows what essential to getting the shot. But I think that familiar with the sequence of natural events is the whole process even harder and makes being Automatic (GS). shot. Olympus C220. 5mm lens. 1/100 predict what is going to happen and be ready for the the activity, without taking photos, until you can such as these barred hamlets mating, is to observe The key to getting split-second behaviour shots, th @ f13. you walk up the beach and then drift down through wide angle. The Pallas is a cracking snorkel, where shallow water to take some colourful available light snorkel at the Wreck of the Pallas to make use Split levels Flash off (GS). the camera. Olympus C220. 5mm lens. 1/80 used this feature to produce a split level image in that the Olympus could take half frame shots and Y ou can not know your camera too well. Giles knew On the second Friday morning we decided to th @ f8. technology! victory for imagination and application over and also the magnification effect of the water. A and focus required for above below the surface easily solve the problems of different exposures take the two half of frame separately you can One advantage of this technique is that because you to hide the line between two halves of frame. use of Photoshop, it would be the work moments camera. If we had allowed ourselves to make more split level shot of the Pallas, that you see here, in W half frame images, taken successively, in one frame. they call “2 IN 1” that allows you to combine two technology. The Olympus has a curious feature that using any camera: to really get know the illustrated probably the most important lesson of other ideas, and having studied the instructions he angle lens. The Olympus had neither. But Giles had specific technology - a large dome port and a wide levels are just one of those shots that require Olympus. I knew he was talking rubbish. Split water and told me he could do a split level with the into the snorkel, Giles stuck his head out of wreckage with the mild current. About half an hour the waist deep lagoon through coral gardens and And I’m sure that the same was true around technology before it was commercially available. proportion of engineers who build their own underwater photography contained a large coincidence that the pathfinders of British photography, and probably always will. It is no Conclusion ith careful use of this feature Giles created the T echnology has always dominated underwater the disco!! time flash mode to capture the background lights of of après SCUBA. Note how we again used the night- The authors (Giles left and Alex right) enjoy a bit great time to be starting underwater photography. underwater photography been so capable. Now is a has the most basic technology available for trade in my DSLR, or anything, but never before couple of days with the little Oly. I am not going by the range of images we could produce in just a need certain equipment. But both of us were amazed world. Few would argue that for certain shots you Alexander Mustard

Giles Saxted 43 and 44 What links these sites? T el: 020 7930 5050 Fax: 3032 London’s premier watersports centre 11 email: - 14 Northumberland Avenue, www London, WC2N 5AQ [email protected] .oceanleisure.co.uk image. quality of the resulting underwater it to a minimum we can maximise the loss in our photographs so by keeping reduction and overall clarity/contrast produces colour loss, definition minimum. It is the water which between you and the subject to a is neccessary to keep the water in best quality underwater photographs it port combination. the best performance from lens/ underwater photographer not getting enough and it can lead to an manufacturers do not emphasise lens. get the full focusing range of your a two element lens system in order to must be considered as one element of the optical problems but dome port which helps to eliminate most of underwater. One solution is a dome designed for use on land rather than become a problem as the lenses are you can use but this advantage housing is the wide choice of lenses using a land camera in an underwater By Peter Scoones and Peter Rowlands for underwater use Correcting lenses Assuming that we want to get the This is something most housing One of the main advantages perspex) is ignored. port material (glass, plexiglasss, distance so the refractive effect of the small relative to the lens/subject assume that the thickness of port is air. For simplicity purposes we interface because water is denser than caused by refraction at the air water the quality of image. These are certain optical problems which affect used behind a flat port there are use a wide angle lens but if they are the water distance to a minimum is Wide angle lenses The most effective way to keep underwater. land performance of your lens field but it is best to retain the full lenses which have a greater depth of major problem with wider angle would on land. This may not be a not being able to focus as close it in focusing range resulting the lens straight lines underwater. major problem as there are very few curved. This is not neccessarily a distortion will render straight lines as geometric quality. Pincushion with ‘out of focus’). edge of the frame (not to be confused overall image softness towards the appearance of colour fringes and red and blue images which give the the edges) caused by distortion to ‘chromatic abberation’ (most severe at edge definition. This is known as 20mm become a 24mm and so on. 3rd making a 28mm become 35mm, reduction in angle of approximately 1/ in lens angle. There is an effective disadvantages. The first is a reduction port there are a number of Flat ports The fourth problem is a reduction The third problem is the loss of The second problem is a loss of When using a lens behind flat effect of the dome. needed to compensate for the negative and a positive supplementary lens is will not perform the same as on land negative power lens, the camera lens contact with water, becomes a correcting pincushion distortion. range and depth of field, as well and restore (and even improve) focus angle, minimise chromatic abberation performance. greatly improve the photographic correctly set up, a dome system can a hemispherical dome as the port. If for the effects of a flat port are to use Dome ports

Since the dome, when used in A dome port can restore lens A simple way of compensating 45 picture being in focus while those at the edge are effect of rendering the subject in centre perfect and there are two main defects. extent, it’s position in relation to the land lens. depend on the curvature of dome and, to a lesser Supplementary lenses correct power attached to the front of land lens into focus, whatever aperture is used.

The first is curvature of field. This has the The dome correction port is unfortunately not The power of this supplementary lens will Using a positive supplementary lens of the 46 out of focus. This not be brought is most severe the edges can with wide angle lenses severe that behind small diameter may be so domes and it determined. From that information the power of internal diameter of the dome needs to be is substantially the same over its entire surface, look at the combination in a perfect world. housing design may limit this possibility but let’s lens/camera lens positioning is important. The and any chromed camera/lens parts. dome should also be blacked out i.e. lens markings surface will help. Reflecting surfaces inside the lenshood and masking the unused parts of dome Great care should be taken to provide an efficient bright object (eg the sun) outside picture area. take the form of an inverted image surface or Internal reflections on the inside of dome often Reflections increasing depth of field. reduce the out of focus effect of curvature by the curvature of field. Using a small aperture will will reduce this defect but not entirely flatten Assuming that the wall thickness of dome For optimum results the dome/supplementary The second defect is one of reflections. supplementary. the camera’s lens located as close possible to the accurately lined up and ideally should be fixed with optical axis of the dome and supplementary are accurate enough in practice). It is important that the strict theory this is not absolutely correct but positioned at the centre of curvature dome (in focal (at optimum) when the supplementary lens is Lens positioning land lens. purchase this and screw it onto the front of your is needed for their domes and all you have to do manufacturers let you know what strength of dioptre 100. i.e a lens f40cms will be 100/40=2.5 dioptres. negative power a positive supplementary lens of will have a negative power. To compensate for that focal length will be 2x20=f40cm (or 400mm) and it r=radius. So for a dome with 20cm diameter, it’s f=focal length of the dome, d=diameter and positive supplementary lens can be calculated. Fortunately most quality housing The water/dome/supplementary lens will be a- The formula is as follows: f = 2d or 4r where f40cm is needed. These length in cms into supplementary divide the focal in diopters, (close up) lenses find the power are often diopters. To expressed in focus will depend on the close focusing capabilities infinity underwater but how much closer you can this is not true. It means you will be able to focus on thereabouts) then all will be well. Strictly speaking with the land lens focused at minimum focus or lens can focus on the virtual image of infinity (i.e. dome.Some manufacturers say that as long your camera lens to counteract for the power of dioptre lens needs to be fitted the front of much closer than infinity would be on land so a the supplementary dioptre lens. In practice this is to a virtual position 4x the radius of dome from a dome underwater is to move the image of infinity manufacturers don’t point out). The optical effect of set to infinity (this is an important point which most on the virtual image of infinity when land lens is your lens underwater, the lens must be able to focus relation to the dome when lens is set at infinity. supplementary lens is in the correct position this case it should be arranged so that the fitted to the filter threads of camera lens and in with small focus travel the supplentary lens can be In order to retain the full focusing range of In practice, when wide angle lenses are used port. much), then a zoom lens can be used behind dome design (which would move back and forward too the zoom lens being used is not ‘push pull’ remain fixed in relation to eachother and as long behind domes, the dioptre/dome positioning must supplier to make sure. of your lens. Check this out with the manufacturer/ is set back from the centre this will result in an greater cost in terms of both size and finance. hemisphere dome which corrects the limitation at a these manufacturers usually provide a full the dome rather than full hemisphere. However compact designs and only use a smaller section of manufacturers as they try to produce more and stronger dioptre lens to focus on virtual infinity. angle of coverage and you will need a slightly the resulting position of lens will reduce its would not be practical within the housing design) the dome (because to provide a full hemisphere with the lens being too far into hemisphere of take place. correct. lens position in relation to the dome may not be are using may not be a perfect hemisphere or the theoretical perfection. For example, the dome you reality it may not always be possible to obtain Reality As we have seen with fixed focal length lenses If the dome is hemispherical but land lens This is a typical situation with most modern If the dome section is not a full hemisphere In these cases the following alterations will All of the above is theoretically fact but in flat port! position is nearly always far more acceptable than a and lastly, a slightly wrong dome curvature/lens positioning and the practical size of end product some form of compromise between perfect of housing design will almost invariably result in don’t get too concerned as the practical limitations about dome curvature/lens position relationships, so we hope this has helped. theories of domes have never been fully described unlikely to occur in most housings designs. less powerful dioptre lens. However, this situation is geometric correction as well the need for a slightly increase in angle and introduction of poorer “Polecam” to get new shots underwater and P years on series such as ReefWatch, SeaTrek eter has been designing, building and using and more recently The Blue Planet. He has High definition video housings for the BBC High definition video has just completed the production of two If, after you read this, become paranoid So there you have it! For some reason the worked as a BBC cameraman for over 20 which are being used to film their latest amateur and commercial world. He has housings for over 45 years in both the developed new cameras such as the P eter Rowlands is Peter Rowlands [email protected] P [email protected] eter Rowlands P eter Scoones

underwater series. 47 is still evident. shutter the delay is much reduced but when you finally fully press, the perform most of its function and, release button to let the camera reduced by half pressing the shutter at least a second although this can be level cameras the shutter delay can be get the shot immediately. With entry means when you press the shutter is no significant shutter delay. That alternative to film cameras. typing finger) are offering a real (DSLR from now on to save my available these digital SLR cameras housings are becoming readily last issue of UwP and now that cameras which were discussed in the advantages over the entry level digital camera. perform like a traditional SLR film lenses become available to make them specifications increase and accessory more popular as their prices fall, cameras are now becoming much by Peter Rowlands Digital SLR underwater Back to basics

The shutter delay was the main The main advantage is that there They offer several distinct Digital SLR (single lens reflex) 48 cameras have been around for some size is economy. “Full frame” chip The main reason for the smaller chip 24mm x 36mm size of a film frame. in a DSLR camera is smaller than the new lens is because the image sensor 35mm film. performance of the 16mm lens on first time, gave the equivalent full frame fisheye lens. This, for the was the introduction of 10.5mm cameras but the pivotal point for me needed to build a system rival film housing as well additional lenses cheap! There’s the camera and a backup. for the D100 but still kept C40 as limited by the shutter delay so I went shots I wanted to take were being more familiar with the technology, the fast moving subjects. As I became photography and I didn’t take shots of because I was learning about digital was prepared to put up with the delay Olympus C40 entry level camera I Nikon D100. Initially with my reason why I decided to ‘invest’ in a The reason Nikon produced this The decision to upgrade is not in the maximum aperture. No wonder with the added benefit of no increase telephoto suddenly became a 450mm from heaven. It meant their 300mm photographers on land this was manna increased by a factor of 1.5. For sports coverage/focal length was reduced/ size was smaller the angle of could be used but because the chip lens mount so that existing lenses DSLR cameras retained their original full frame. issue on the reasons for going up to commission an article for the next in this article because I am hoping to will not be discussing these cameras time but at a much higher price and I helped restore the full lens range for underwater use. The arrival of the 10.5mm full frame fisheye and 12-24mm wide angle zoom want underwater because it is a true system camera. of finance, size and weight but it does allow you to take almost any photo A move up from entry level to digital SLR photography is quite a leap in terms The Nikon D100 and most other traditional 16mm lens became frame fisheye because the effectively robbed us of a full increase in focal length DSLR camera with a 1.5 minimum. The advent of the camera and subject to a the amount of water between angle lens possible to keep want to shoot with the widest objects such as wrecks we when photographing large a different matter because, so swiftly. they embraced the digital age and you have total control of your underwater images. cameras. Add the ability to shoot and work fast in RAW format colour balance over a greater range compared to entry level The electronics in DSLR cameras are capable of adjusting Underwater, however, is had actually been made more useable and one could argue macro lenses were still place, my 60mm and 105mm 35mm. equivalent of an 18-36mm on another new lens giving the 24mm lens which was 10.5mm came after the 12- a true system camera. The development of the DLSR as committed to the me that Nikon were 10.5mm lens it confirmed to a 24mm. As soon as I saw the W ith these two lenses in their Subal housing but I prefe to shoot manually with an Inon Z-220 D-TTL flash exposures are really only available with the Nikon land flashguns seen here with some black magic country. metering but here we get into availability of TTL flash level one should be the DSLR camera over an entry any subject you want. capability to shoot virtually lenses so you can have the can take interchangeable obvious by now is that they DSLR which should be 150mm respectively. approximately 90mm and useful because they became Another advantage of a The other advantage of a accepted this move forward brainwashed among us electronics in the camera! The may actually damage the not only give TTL but that the Nikonos flashes could of Nikon land flashguns and compatible with a new range the D100 was only TTL a bit of shock to learn that systems. It therefore came as Nikonos and housed camera served us well on both have been the norm and compatible TTLflashguns For decades Nikonos considering. of the camera you are carefully at the specification feature then look very that TTL flash is an important flash exposures but if you feel be back working with manual UwP I am actually happy to Editorial in the last Issue of Nikon have done that?! flashguns so why couldn’t harmony with Nikonos TTL DSLR which worked in total but then Fuji came out with a

As I explained in the 49 removed. Naturally these files are is unprocessed and has had no data format. This produces an image which to shoot and save your files in RAW over your image quality you will need will be severely limited. to manipulate the shot at a later date taken to process a shot but your ability significantly. This reduces the time affecting the image quality removing unneeded data without JPG which compresses the file by most common image file format is once the shutter has been pressed. The cameras take time to process an image the electronics. Most entry level undoubtedly the processing power of

If you want to have total control The final advantage of a DSLR is 50 in these situations but that is where buffer problem is a major advantage on a 35mm SLR camera with no to very brief swimpasts. where photo opportunities are limited would i.e. humpbacks and sharks buffer but I can imagine times when experience I have never “overrun” the the files are saved to disk. In my for approximately 20 seconds while won’t be able to take any more shots images in quick succession then you The D100 lets you take around four are being saved to the memory card. memory to hold the files whilst they because it is using its “buffer” The camera lets you take more shots can take is not limitless unfortunately. The ability to fire the motordrive images. around 400 RAW format gigabytes, this gives you cards available up to 4 W number of extra shots you you take more shots. The these larger files and still let electronic capacity to save DSLR camera has the cannot take another picture. A them. During this time you up to 20 seconds store entry level camera might take much bigger than a JPG so an ith Compact flash memory manual focusing, certainly for me, a modern autofocus systems makes very tricky but the capability of smaller and makes manual focusing makes the viewing image much viewfinder. Underwater with a mask you can get your eye very close to the are designed for use on land where optical viewfinders are not ideal. They camera. LCD screen on the back of image appears almost instantly on the practice this is not a big deal as your once you have pressed the shutter. In so you will only see the final image they have traditional flipping mirrors are more expensive and bulkier permitting). DSLRs on the otherhand you are about to get (shutter delay view which shows the exact image they have a nice large LED screen to lighter, cheaper and less bulky perfect. Entry level cameras are much pipe and smoke it. 35mm film users stick that in your will give you up to 400 images! approximately 100 images, a 4 gig 4gig so if a 1 gig card will hold capacity of a Compactflash card is memory card. I believe the maximum can simply buy a larger capacity limitless number of shots because you DSLR you can have an almost you will only have 36 shots. With a the advantage definitely ends because For underwater use the DSLR The DSLR is not, however, limitations in my DSLR! proofread it and I might start to see problem is that I will have to chipDSLR (FSCDSLR!). The thinking of upgrading to a full size the next article because I’m not and for the future. format camera provides all I need now once I really do believe that the DSLR (especially with computers!) but for need”. She’s heard it too often saying “And this system is all I’ll ever when I try to justify my purchase by always gives me a knowing look camera system my partner Debbie thing of the past. T As a result, I will not be writing Whenever I ‘invest’ in a new ime will tell. P eter Rowlands [email protected] shutter speed and exposure mode. These must also be copied and pasted into the body of e mail. 3. Captions - 120k which can be transmitted quickly. If we want larger sizes we will contact you. File type - Save your image as a JPG file and set the compression to “Medium” quality. This should result in images no larger t Size - Maximum length 15cm i.e. horizontal pictures would be 15 cm wide and verticals 15cm. 2. Images must be attached to the e mail and they need 144dpi 1. The text should be saved as a TEXT file and attached to the e mail way: Personalities Equipment reviews Subjects Locations Uw photo techniques be you! photography. We are looking for work from existing names but would also like to discover some of the new talent out there and t The type of articles we’re looking for fall into five main categories: To The response to UwP has been nothing short of fantastic. We are looking for interesting, well illustrated articles about underw keep UwP simple and financially viable, we can only accept submissions by e mail they need to be done in the following - - Each and every image MUST have full photographic details Photo friendly dive sites, countries or liveaboards Anything from whale sharks to nudibranchs in full detail - Interviews/features about leading underwater photographers - - Detailed appraisals of the latest equipment Balanced light, composition, etc contact me first before putting pen to paper. Guidelines for contributors If you have an idea for article, E mail How to submit articles [email protected] including camera, housing, lens, lighting, film, aperture, han about hat could

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The Island of 53 V enue: but repeated the technique under other the coral to wind film on. and pulled the camera out from under camera as well I could, took a shot press the shutter release. I lined up arms length and used my thumb to viewfinder so I held the camera at me to get my eye behind the maximum depth of field. and the lens aperture at F16 for the camera set to “A” aperture priority to put the camera under corals with horizontally and waste film I decided sandy brown so rather than shoot a lovely compact outfit. lens and Ektachrome 100 film. It was Sea and 12mm full frame fisheye photo imagination that much. coral outcrops which didn’t excite my rubbly location with small patches of very well at all. It was quite a sandy, the trip and we didn’t choose our site processing kit. It was of confirmed by my trusty traveling E6 floods and some nice exposures simple. film was and shorediving trip to Eilat in Israel the days when P arting shot

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