Friday, July 11th, 2014

Mission 31: Time Magazine presents live Twitter Q&A

Time Magazine are hosting a live Twitter question and answer session at 2 pm US Eastern Standard Time today discussing the 360° Hero video set up that they used to capture the interactive video they recently published video about Fabien Cousteaus’s Mission 31 project. The video “takes readers on a virtual scuba dive around Aquarius, the world’s only habitable underwater science lab, with Fabien Cousteau and some of the aquanauts from Mission 31.”

Thursday, July 10th, 2014

Lightroom to be available after subscriptions lapse

Tom Hogarty of Adobe has announced that users will have access to their images via Lightroom even if their Creative Cloud subscriptions lapse. From version 5.5 onwards, they will lose the Develop and Map functionality, but retain access and functionality in all the other modules.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

Nauticam announces housing for GH4

Nauticam has announced their new housing for the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 camera. The NA-GH4 is somewhat customized for video use, with a specific thumb operated button for ISO adjustment, a lever for white balance and access to both control dials. The company has also announced an upgrade kit for owners of their GH3 housing.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

Video: Dive with David Doubilet and Goliath Groupers

Dive with David Doubilet as he photographs 600-pound Atlantic Goliath Groupers off Jupiter, West Palm Beach, and Boynton Beach, Florida. The fish leave the shallows after the first five years of their lives to spawn under ledges and in shipwrecks and other structures along the East and West coast of Florida from August to October. (image from Shutterstock)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

Call for entries: Cairns Underwater Film Festival

The Cairns Underwater Film Festival (CUFF) is calling for entries to its photo and video competitions. The photo contest offers 8 categories including world and Barrier Reef geographical ones and the video contest offers 5. The deadline for entries is 24 July.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

Image: Got It by Christian Miller

Christian Miller shot this stunning image of a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) at the turtle sanctuary where he works and posted it onto the Wetpixel Facebook Group. At the Save our Sea Turtles the turtles are fed on squid.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Swedish warship Mars discovered after 450 years

The Swedish warship Mars was the largest at the time when it sank in 1564 until being discovered in 2011 by Richard Lundgren, Ingemar Lundgren and Fredrik Skogh after a 20-year search. What makes this ship so unique is how well preserved it is.

Sunday, July 6th, 2014

Video: Cristian Dimitrius at work

During the Bahamas Underwater Photo Week, Wetpixel Associate Editor Alex Mustard and I were joined by filmmaker Cristian Dimitrius for the last two days of diving with Club Med on San Salvador. Click though for a (slightly humorous) video of him in action.

Sunday, July 6th, 2014

The Digital Shootout 2014

The annual Digital Shootout, now in its thirteenth year, took place from 13 to 20 June 2014, at Little Cayman Beach Resort, Little Cayman. The event attracted 80 underwater photographers, to “a boot camp with benefits for underwater image-makers, full of camaraderie amongst like-minded underwater photographers.”

Saturday, July 5th, 2014

Autofocus testing with Panasonic GH4

Russ Sanoian of Backscatter has been carrying out autofocus tests with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 4K mirrorless camera. He was using an Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro Lens, together with a Nauticam SMC.

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