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Wetpixel Live: Ethical Guidelines for Underwater Photographers
Underwater photography can be a powerful advocate for the oceans, allowing a large audience to view the undersea world and hence seek to protect it. There is also a responsibility to faithfully represent what we see underwater and to do no harm in creating images of it. Wetpixel Live delves into this, with Wetpixel Editor, Adam Hanlon and regular contributor Alex Mustard discussing some practical steps that photographers can take to minimize their impact and create images in an ethical manner.
Wetpixel Live: What is Happening to the Digital Camera Market?
The digital camera industry has gone through some profound changes over the past few years. The proliferation of mobile devices with very adequate imaging functions has caused the market to contract significantly. Alex Mustard and Adam Hanlon discuss these profound effects on Wetpixel Live, particularly with reference as to how this will affect underwater photographers.
Wetpixel Live: Travel Trips for Underwater Photographers
Although we are all somewhat limited in our ability to travel, this should not prevent us from making plans to do so in the future. In the next episode of Wetpixel Live, Adam Hanlon and Alex Mustard team up to offer some advice on how to travel with underwater photography gear. Both of them travel a great deal, so their ideas are based on lots of practical experience.
Sony announces FE 12-24mm f/2.8 lens for full frame cameras
Sony has announced a 12-24mm G Master lens for full frame cameras. It has a constant aperture of f/2.8 and a minimum focus distance of 11 inches (27.9cm). As is always the case, performance behind a done port remains to be tested.
Wetpixel Live: 5 Ways to Improve your Underwater Photography when you Can’t Dive.
We are almost all currently in a position in which we are not doing as much underwater photography as we might wish. As an antidote to this, our next episode of Wetpixel Live provides some (hopefully) useful ideas about how we can occupy ourselves when we are unable to be beneath the surface.
Announcing Wetpixel Live
Hosted by Wetpixel Editor Adam Hanlon, with regular contributions from Associate Editor and renowned photographer, Alex Mustard, Wetpixel Live is a regularly refreshed series of video conversations with leading underwater image makers about topics that are of interest to all those that venture beneath the surface with a camera. It is crammed full of hard-edged technical information and practical advice aimed at helping people create memorable images.
Ikelite ships Action Housing for Canon G7 X Mark III
Ikelite is shipping their action housing for the Canon G7 X Mark III compact camera. Rated to 200 ft (60m) the housing has a 67mm threaded port for the mounting of accessory lenses and two fiber optic ports for strobe triggering
Canon announces EOS R5 and R6 cameras along with R mount 85mm macro lens
IIn a major virtual event, Canon has formally released the EOS R5 and R6 mirrorless full frame cameras, along with an 85mm f/2 macro lens and 1.4x and 2x R mount teleconverters.
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