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Review: ProSoft Data Rescue 3
Steve Douglas provides a review of ProSoft’s Data Rescue 3 data recovery software. This is designed to find and retrieve data that has been lost due to accidental deletion, hardware failure or simple loss. The software can be set up to scan for “Deleted Files” which searches for any deleted or lost files. Steve concludes:
” It’s the same case with ProSoft’s Data Rescue 3; you pray you never need it, but if you do, even though it will probably take up a good portion of the day locating just the file you need, it does as advertised and can save the day and possibly a significant amount of money for you.”
Nocturnal lights provides specifications of LUNA 4V lights
Nocturnal Lights, the US distributor for Keldan, has released full specifications of the LUNA 4V video light. It is described as a “compact video light for smaller video setups” with power settings from 1100 through to 4000 lumens via 5 power settings. It has an externally charged removable battery good for 50 minutes at full power.
Wetpixel will be running a full review of the LUNA 4 soon, along with other 4000 lumen lighting solutions suitable for SLR video. The Keldan LUNA 4V is shipping now at a retail price of $1,500.
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New study shows effects of shark tourism on behavior
A new study by five University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science researchers has been published in the journal Functional Ecology entitled, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds: Assessing ecological impacts of provisioning ecotourism on an apex marine predator”. The team used satellite tags to track the movements of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) from Tiger Beech, Bahamas, and Florida. It was hypothesized that those from Tiger Beach would stay fixed around the locale due to the availability of food from shark diving operators’ bait, whilst those from Florida would be more mobile due to feeding being illegal.
The results actually show that the Bahamian sharks were more mobile, suggesting that the expected behavioral modification due to feeding does not occur.
Beat Lightroom 4 Chromatic Aberration process
Those of you have played with the latest release of Lightroom may have found an apparently unwelcome surprise lurking within the Lens Correction tab of the Develop module. Previous versions of Lightroom have offered sliders to allow users to correct Chromatic Aberration in terms of colors, and a “Defringe” option. In place of these controls, Lightroom 4 simply offers a check-box labelled “Remove Chromatic Aberration”.
The challenge is to defeat Lightroom 4’s automatic CA correction tool. Please post examples of images that have beaten the new process in the thread on the forum or, if you can’t do so, please post this too.
Please vote to ban shark fishing in Sabah, Malaysia!
The Department of Fisheries Sabah Malaysia is conducting a web survey on whether to ban shark fishing in Sabah, Malaysia. This is public interest step that was quietly conducted before. We can help by creating more votes for the ban and letting the Malaysian government know that the world wants shark fishing to stop in their oceans. So vote “YES” to the shark fishing ban and give sharks in the area a chance!
Mangrove adds housing for SONY HXR-NX70 camcorder
Mangrove has added a new housing for the Sony HXR-NX70 camcorder. The housing’s front case is machined from aluminum, with a Delrin rear. The housing features controls via LANC, giving access to most camcorder functions, including manual white balance, aperture, shutter speed and zoom. These are accessed via a 12 key electronic control on the rear of the housing, where a 3.4” monitor is situated too. It is available with flat or dome port options and the housing has a standard depth rating of 200m (660 feet).
It is available now at a retail price of €1,741.53.
Light and Motion releases the SOLA 2000
Light and Motion has announced release of the SOLA 2000 video light. It features a 2000 lumen output and a burn time of 60 minutes at full power. The output is stepped through three levels (2000/1000/500) and the torch is available with either a 1” ball or 1/2” Lochline attachment. Lastly, it weighs only 238 grams.
The SOLA 2000 is available now at a retail price of $899
Issue number 47 of X-Ray Magazine available
X-Ray Magazine has released issue number 47. The March 2012 edition has the Red Sea as a focus with articles including the Brothers Islands with Christopher Bartlett, a journey from Cairo to El Quseir with Barb Roy, and Elphinstone with JP Bresser. Other features include an interview with Archim Schlöffel, Peter Symes and David Hall on hooded nudibranchs and the giant manta rays of Ecuador with Mark Harding. Andy Murch presents an article on how to photograph sharks and Lawson Wood talks about muck diving photography.
X-Ray Magazine is available as a free download in pdf or iPad formats.