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Wishing the Wetpixel Community a very Happy New Year
Wishing the Wetpixel community the very happiest of New Year celebrations. We hope that you are enjoying a joyful evening with family and friends and that 2020 will bring you safe diving, cooperative subjects, and amazing imagery.
Darktable 3 imaging app is available
Version 3 of the open-source image editing app Darktable has been released. It offers an improved GUI and improvements to the denoise module, the Picasa export module changed to Google Photos, new RGB Curve and Levels modules, a new Basic Adjustments module, new color pickers for some modules “many code optimizations” for SSE and CPU paths and much more.
Canon USA supports Coral Restoration Project
Canon USA has announced that it is participating in the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science coral reef restoration project. Canon team members, along with students and university staff embarked on an expedition to plant coral fragments from a nursery into an existing reef of Key Biscayne, Florida.
Happy Holidays 2020
The admins and moderators wish the Wetpixel community the very happiest of holiday seasons. If you exchange gifts, we hope that yours include some new tools for underwater imaging! We hope that you will have time to share your holidays with friends and family and would like to thank you all for sharing your time, images and experience on the Wetpixel forums, and Facebook group. We look forward to sharing more techniques, news, and imagery in 2020
Ikelite ships housing for Olympus OM-D E-M5 III
Ikelite is now shipping their housing for the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III camera. Equipped with the Dry Lock Micro port system, the housing has extendable shutter releases and AE-L/AF-L button thumb levers. It also offers TTL strobe control with the optional DL3 DS Link Olympus TTL Converter.
Deepvision Contest open for entries
Scubashooters have delayed their final call for entries for the Deepvision contest and will now accept entries until 12 January
New study into shark behavior during hurricanes
Hakai Magazine has published an article about research that Grace Casselberry of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been doing about the reaction of sharks to hurricanes. It seems that they sense the changes in atmospheric pressure that precede these weather events, and head for the safety of deep water.
Nikon adds ProRes RAW support to Z6 and Z7
ikon has announced a paid upgrade for the Z6 and Z7 cameras that adds the option of the external recording of ProRes RAW video. In order to do so, the camera will need to be equipped with an Atomos recorder connected via an HDMI 2.0 connection. The updates also added CF Express memory card support. This will be added to compatible D5, D850 and D500 cameras.
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