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Short film Weightless released onto YouTube
Weightless Emotions has released a short freediving film onto YouTube entitled Weightless. It was filmed at Dahab, Egypt, during January and February this year and used three different film locations. Five hours of footage in total was shot solely on breath hold. The deepest filming was done at 20 meters (60 feet) depth and no single clip was longer than 1.5 minutes.
Adam Hanlon appointed as Wetpixel Editor
Over the past year, many of you will have noticed that Adam Hanlon has been increasingly involved with Wetpixel.com, and has been responsible for adding almost-daily news items to the front page. We are proud to announce that Adam will be taking over as Editor of Wetpixel, and will be driving online content creation and curation. I will continue my role as Wetpixel Publisher and Editor-at-Large, and will concentrate on strategic and continued development.
Wetpixel has been in existence for over 10 years and has fostered a close-knit community of passionate underwater image makers. Here’s to another 10 years of sharing what we find under the surface of the earth’s oceans!
Exmouth Navy Pier, Ningaloo on DiveFilm HD
Wetpixel senior moderator Paul Wags has had the trailer of his new DVD Exmouth Navy Pier featured as a podcast by DiveFilm HD. The Navy Pier is situated about 1200km north of Perth in Western Australia on the famous Ningaloo Reef, and the film takes us on a tour of underwater Western Australia.
DiveFilm HD podcasts are available on iTunes as free downloads and are produced in conjunction with Wetpixel.
Datacolor launches color management app for iPad
Datacolor has launched a free app on the iTunes store that allows users to color calibrate iPad displays and ensure that colors are consistent throughout the workflow. The Datacolor SpyderGallery app provides a simple calibration program, and then a gallery that allows images to be viewed using the color profile created. In order to calibrate the display, a Spyder3 (or higher) calorimeter is required.
The app is a free download from the iTunes store.
Canon revises release dates for 8-15mm Fisheye and other lenses
Canon USA has announced a revised release date for the EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens, as well as other new lenses. It is now expected to be available from late July. Canon claim that it will be the world’s widest fisheye zoom lens, delivering an 180° diagonal angle of view on all EOS SLR cameras, from full-frame to APS-C, and providing full 180-degree circular fisheye images for full-frame EOS models. Suitable for still photographers and cinematographers, the lens will offer a unique perspective particularly when coupled with the highly popular full-frame EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera.
The Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens will have estimated retail price of $1,399.
Call for entries: Divers for Africa photo contest
Divers for Africa (DFA) are calling for entries for their third International Competition of Photography. The online competition is being held in conjunction with the DFA Dive Days 2011, and the prizes will be awarded on 25 June, 2011 during a gala evening event at “The Palace of Congress” in Florence, Ravenna, Italy.
Full entry details are available on the organizers’ website and the deadline for online entries is 31 May.
Dyron releases new products
Dyron has released a series of new accessory products for compact and SLR housings. These include a new quick release mount for use with the Dyron Fisheye lens on Recsea S90/95 housings, a glass fisheye lens for Ikelite, Patima and RecSea housings that gives full circle (8mm) field of view, a macro wet lens/diopter with a 77mm thread and adaptors that allows the lens to be used on Subal, Seacam, Hugyfot and Ikelite macro ports.
We have had the M77 macro lens on test and will be reviewing it shortly.
Review: Xit 404 Quad Ball adaptor
More and more previously dedicated still shooters are now trying their hand at video, using the capabilities that now seem standard in each new SLR. This brings with it a raft of design problems for housing designers and users. Not least of these is the fact that we often now need to attach two different light sources to the housing.
Adam Hanlon reviews the Quad Ball adapter by Xit 404, which offers the user multiple attachment points for video/focus lights and strobes.