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Nikon announces the D5200 SLR
Nikon has announced the D5200 SLR camera. It features a new Nikon DX-format 24.1-million pixel CMOS sensor with native ISO sensitivity from ISO 100 to ISO 6400. It has the EXPEED 3 image processing engine and the 2,016-pixel RGB sensor Scene Recognition System from the D4/D800/D600 together with the Multi-CAM4800DX autofocus sensor module from the D7000. Video is available at 1920 x 1080 60i/50i with frame rates of 24p, 25p, or 30p also available.
The D5200 will be available at £719.99 / €899.00, with a release date slated for December 2012.
Seacam unveils 3D video housing
Wetpixel member, Aldo Ferucci has posted pictures of a new 3D video housing from Seacam onto his Facebook page, and subsequently onto the Wetpixel forum. The new housing holds two Canon C300 cameras, and offers adjustment of both inter axis and convergence points. It also offers access to all the controls on the cameras and can be used with the 3D assist Panasonic monitor.
Aldo points out that this is still a project under development, and that the housing design is not yet final. Hence availability and prices are still to be announced. He plans to bring it to DEMA, and I am sure it will feature in our show coverage in more depth.
New World Publications adds ebooks
New World Publications has announced that the three books of the Reef Set; Reef Fish, Reef Creature and Reef Coral Identification, Florida, Caribbean and Bahamas are now available as ebooks. They join the existing Tropical Pacific ebooks already published. The new ebooks are available in the Blio format for Android, iPad, iTouch, iPhone and Windows PC computers, not for mac, and availability is limited internationally. They are accessed via a free download of the Blio app.
All the ebooks are available now at $29.95 via Blio.
Eye mirror releases panoramic underwater lenses
Eye mirror has released a series of products that allow the capture of 360° panoramic images. The devices can be attached to compact, SLRs or video cameras and the company has also released a series of underwater housings that can adapt to existing housings. It can be used to capture both still images and video.
Underwater lens options start at $349 and will be available from December.
Reef Life of the Andaman on YouTube
Wetpixel member Nick Hope of Bubble Vision has released his entire 116-minute documentary about the marine life of Thailand and Burma on YouTube and has also embeded it into the Wetpixel forum. It was all filmed over the course of more than 1,000 dives at the Similan Islands, Phuket, the Phi Phi Islands, Hin Daeng/Hin Muang, the Mergui Archipelago and the Burma Banks. Featured marine life includes everything from seahorses to whale sharks.
The film is also available to purchase as a DVD from Nick at £14.95.
Time adds Sony RX100 and Lytro to its best inventions list
Time Tech, a part of Time magazine, has included the Sony RX100 compact camera and the Lytro Light Field camera to its list of the 50 best inventions of 2012. The Sony RX100 has attracted a great deal of interest for underwater use, single-handedly rejuvenating the Consumer Digicams/housings forum on Wetpixel. There are extensive posts about testing the camera and suitable underwater settings. Given that Lytro’s DP is Wetpixel Publisher Eric Cheng, I think it is highly likely that we will be seeing underwater images produced by it soon.
November issue of DIVE available
The November online edition of DIVE magazine is now available to download onto a variety of platforms. In a destination oriented issue, the magazine has articles about the Galapagos whale shark project, Cocos Island from three different perspectives: as an open-circuit scuba diver, as a closed-circuit rebreather diver and from behind the bubble of a one-atmosphere submarine, Bligh Water in the Fiji Islands, Douglas Seifert writes about close encounters with humpback whales in Tonga and there is a review of exotic Pacific liveaboard destinations.
DIVE is available as a free download for a variety of platforms.
Issue 69 of Underwater Photography magazine available
The November/December issue of Underwater Photography (UwP) magazine is now available to download. Highlights of issue 69 include a review of the Olympus 60mm macro lens and Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe by Phil Rudin, Mark Webster reports on rock pools, Cenderawasih Bay by Chris Mitchell and Jim Garin writes about diving Destin & Florida’s Northern Gulf Coast.
UwP magazine is available as a free pdf download.