The fifth annual Lundy Island Splash in is calling for entrants. The island, off the North Devon coast, is home to some of the UK’s best diving and underwater photographic opportunities, including a rookery of lively grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). The event is being held on 5 June.
During ADEX, we reported on Seacam’s conversion of the Nikonos RS 13mm lens for use with digital SLRs. Borut Furlan now presents the full details of both the development process and the converted lens’s performance.
Howard Hall Productions has posted a short film featuring a medley of their favourite clips of manta rays. The footage was shot in a variety of formats including 4K, 5K and HD (with a Sony 900).
From 24 to 31 May, there is a very special underwater imaging event being held in the Bahamas. Alert Diver’s Bahamas Underwater Photo Week aims “to capture a week in the underwater life of the Bahamas” and features 4 professional underwater photographers and 1 filmmaker who will all will be capturing images in 10 separate location throughout the Islands.
GoPro has featured a stunning video shot by Nana Trongratanawong in Jellyfish Lake, Eil Malk island, Palau. The original footage is over a year old, but GoPro has edited and re-graded it prior to posting on their YouTube channel.
Scientists Guy Levy and Nir Nesher of Hebrew University in Jerusalem set about getting to the bottom of an age old question: Why don’t octopus arms get tangled? Turns out the question had never been posed before and the answer was less complicated than expected. (Image from shutterstock.com)
The publication of the Olympus’s latest figures for the full fiscal year make for disturbing reading for their imaging division. Thom Hogan in his Sansmirror blog points out that the sales figures for the brand are, quite frankly, a financial disaster.
Lembeh and Murex Resorts in Indonesia are looking for a media savvy individual to join their team as a Marketing Coordinator. The resorts are both both located in what well be regarded as diving paradise…
Sony has announced a new version of its RX100 pro compact camera. The RX100 III has a large aperture 24-70mm Zeiss lens, with a built in OLED viewfinder. The camera has a BIONZ X processor and a clean HDMI feed out with zebra exposure patterning. Lastly, it has 5 axis image stabilization.
Nikon has trailed the release of a 1.4 times teleconverter. Originally designed for use with their new 400mm f2.8 lens, the converter reduces the light hitting the sensor by one stop, and is designed to minimize chromatic aberration.