Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

Upgrading to a DSLR

Now that digital SLR cameras or

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

Fiji Digital Shootout, May 6-15th, 2004

Splash into the world of underwater digital photography at the third annual underwater Digital Shootout in Fiji, May 6 - 15th, 2004! Far beyond a standard photo safari, the Digital Shootout is an in-depth learning experience. Meet fellow beginner and advanced shooters and rub elbows with our team of professional photographers and industry experts for a week long program that includes free digital demo gear with professional assistance and critiques, and hands-on workshops. Experts from Adobe will empower you with the essential skills of Photoshop image control and premiere video editing.

Wetpixel is proud to annouce our involvement in this year's event. We'll be giving a seminar on digital underwater photography, and will be doing a daily webcast of shootout events.

For more information, check out theshootout.org.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

UnderwaterPhotography.com Announces Winners

PRESS RELEASE: News in underwater photography this week is the announcement of the winners of the UnderwaterPhotography.com photo contest 2003. This annual contest is the longest running online digital photo contest, and gives underwater photographers a forum to show their work and gain recognition, and encouragement, from their peers. Underwater photographers from 50 countries entered digital images online in several categories: topside, over/under, macro, wrecks, natural light, fantasy, divers, and marine life. An international panel of judges has chosen the top three entries in each category entered during the previous year and awarded them gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. This year a new award has been created

Monday, January 26th, 2004

Ikelite Olympus TTL Beta Test

Wetpixel member Peter Schulz got to test the new Ikelite circuitry which translates the camera's TTL metering system signal from an Olympus 5050 or 5060 and sends it to an Ikelite digital Substrobe. Peter dove with an Ikelite 5050 housing with the prototype conversion circuit installed. To quote Peter:

"The results were outstanding. For the first time ever I got perfect lighting under almost every imaginable condition e.g. shooting under reefs, against the sand, against the sky, with cloudy skies, sunny skies, etc. without changing any camera settings during the dives! This TTL system really rocks!"

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Web Links Section

Remember to add your favorite underwater imaging-related site to Wetpixel's Web Links section! Your link will show up once we approve your submission.

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

Wetpixel, v3.0

Welcome to the new Wetpixel.com!
(log-in with your old forum credentials, or register with us)
We're finally done with a ground-up redesign and rewrite of Wetpixel.com!

James Wiseman, Craig Jones and I have been working hard to migrate content over from the old site. We've moved all of the news, reviews, and forum content over, but we're still working on the features. As expected, many links buried in old content will be broken. If you come across a broken link that seems particularly important, please let one of the administrators know by leaving a message in our official migration thread.

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

INON X2 Canon 10D Housing

INON Japan has announced the X2 Canon 10D dSLR Housing. A preliminary translation from Japanese can be found in our forums, but we are waiting for some sort of official press release from INON America.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004