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Reef ID Guide to Indo-Pacific Seashells released
Reef ID Books has released their Living Shells of the Tropical Indo-Pacific photo guide. Offering an ID to over 1500 shell species. It has ID images of 100 cowrie species and more than 120 allied cowries. Author Andrey Ryanskiy is offering the book as an eBook, via Amazon as a paper edition and Apple as an ePub. To celebrate its publication, he is offering a 20% discount on the eBook.
Wetpixel Live: Capturing Spawning Behavior
Adam and Alex discuss underwater sex and how to create beautiful underwater imagery of this iconic behavior. They go on to discuss their belief that images showing the way creatures behave underwater should be not only descriptive but also graphically pleasing.
Wetpixel Live: Sharing Underwater Images
Keldan Ships RC1 Remote Control
Keldan has announced that they are now shipping their RC1 Remote Control. It uses sonar and can control the brightness of the company’s 24XR and 18XR lights, has a range of 50m, and works around corners or through walls. Each unit can control 2 lights or 2 groups of lights independently.
Wetpixel Live: Image Choices
Alex](http://www.amustard.com) and Adam discuss how underwater photographers should possibly choose which subjects they should take pictures of and how we can use imagery to help persuade people to protect the oceans. Imagery can motivate people to engage with and to seek to protect the world’s oceans.
Sea and Sea announces MDX housing for EOS R5
Sea&Sea has announced their housing for the Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera. It is compatible with both RF and EF lenses (with the adaptor), it has a 24mm bulkhead for HDMI 2.0 output. It uses Sea&Sea’s MDX port system and strobe triggering can be via fiber optic or electronic sync.
Wetpixel Live: Water Contact Optics Review
Water contact optics, designed specifically for underwater imaging, are one of the most interesting developments in underwater imaging. On Wetpixel Live, Alex Mustard and Adam Hanlon run through the various wide angle options that they have used thus far and provide some ideas about how to get the best from them.
Wetpixel Live: Guide to the Thistlegorm
To celebrate the publication of a new guidebook featuring Alex’s images and research, he and Adam chat about this iconic Red Sea wreck and he shares some of his amazing imagery from it. The book contains cutting-edge 3D and photogrammetry imagery to document and help people understand the location of the many historical artifacts located in and around it.
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