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Boxfish Luna Underwater Drone offers 4K ProRes Raw
Boxfish Research has announced that the Luna underwater drone now offers the option of capturing ProRes RAW at 30 fps. It has either a Sony a7s3 or a1 camera, which feeds out to the surface control console via umbilical for recording, monitoring, and adjusting exposure settings.
Review: Backscatter Backscatter Mini Flash and Optical Snoot by Morten Bjorn Larsen
Danish photographer Morten Bjorn Larsen kindly provides a synopsis of his experiences of using the Backscatter Mini Flash and Optical Snoot to the Wetpixel community. He lists several distinct usage categories for the flash, including subject separation, different beam sizes, oval cards, framing subjects, and wide angle. He notes that he has found the flash combination to be both versatile and easy to use.
Wetpixel Live: Winning Marine and Underwater Images from WPY 2021
The 2021 Wildlife Photography of the Year Contest has just announced its results. Notable in this year’s contest is the number of underwater and marine reacted images placed in the rankings, the overall winner being an underwater image and our fellow contributor Alex’s well-deserved win of the Natural Artistry category. In this episode of Wetpixel Live, he and Adam discuss all the marine and underwater-related winners.
Results: Marine-Related Winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021
Feast your eyes on all the marine-related winners of the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest! The results have just been announced in an online live stream from the Natural History Museum. Hearty congratulations to all the winners and those among the placings.
2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Results Livestream
The 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest is announcing its results live in an online ceremony from the Natural History Museum, London. Congratulations to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the Underwater Category Winner, Lauren Ballesta with his picture of spawning grouper from Fakarava, French Polynesia, and to Natural Artistry Category Winner, Alex Mustard.
Easydive Ships LeoR Universal Housing
Easydive are shipping their new LeoR universal camera housing. It offers camera control via USB, WiFi, IR or Bluetooth and is now compatible with many SLR and mirrorless cameras, along with the BlackMagic Pocket camera. Other features include an integrated OLED display and an Android App that allow the housing to be configured as required. Dual SDI out is available as are two external battery packs.
Introducing the 2021 Masters Esteemed Judging Panel
DPG and Wetpixel are excited to announce the judges for the DPG/Wetpixel Masters Underwater Imaging Competition 2021: Imran Ahmad, Mike Bartick, Florian Fischer, Stephen Frink and Jennifer Hayes.
Live Report: CMAS World Underwater Photo and Video Championships
Wetpixel Editor Adam Hanlon is in Porto Santo, Portugal reporting live from the 2021 CMAS World Underwater Photo and Video Championships. The event has attracted 48 teams from 18 countries to compete in a live shootout or “photosub” style imaging contest, which carries prestigious national awards for the winning teams, and (perhaps brief!) fame for the winning individuals. The contest runs from Monday 4, through to Sunday 10 October and Adam will be posting daily updates from it, so please keep checking back to find out all this is going on!
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