I’ve recently started reading Kevin Gurr’s book, Technical Diving from the bottom up.  I’d recommend it for any diver (not just techies) and wants to know why more experienced divers choose to setup kit the way they do, anybody who wants to know more about dompression theory.

Amazon Link

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It’s been over 2 months since I posted anything, so a little update is due…….

Normoxic Trimix – didn’t finish the course   The weather on the last 2 days meant it wasn’t possible to get the 60m depth required for the qualifying dives.  It just means I need to go back to Malta to complete it next year!

Purchase wise, as I seem to progressing with the tech side of things quicker than I anticipated, a backplate and harness is next!  Not sure on the backplate yet, but for the harness i’m pretty much decided on the new Uno from Custom Divers.

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I got this recently in my inbox from B&H Photo Video in New York

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Darkness.jsp

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I’ve just added a new book to my collection – The Underwater Photographer by Martin Edge (amazon link).  It has a wealth of information about Underwater Photography covering mainly digital techniques and certainly has given me some things to think about when taking pictures.  Some of the areas in covers include lenses, zoom, digital file formats, digial ISO, noise and much more. 

Well worth a read.

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Today is dive-photos.net 1st Birthday.  Thanks to the 1200+ visitors the site has had over the first year, I hope you’ve found something of interest or something useful on the site.

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When I first read about Uwdigitalcamera.com, I was a bit secptable about buying from the otherside of the world, potentially worried about how much shipping would be, customs duty and other pitfalls assiocated with buying from aborad.

Certainly with Uwdigitalcamera.com these are all myths!

There product pricing is excellent, the UFL-165AD is 37,000 JPY which is about £175 and shipping on that lens was 3,800 JPY which is about £18 so all in all £200 – thats half the price of what the lens costs in this country!!

They accept PayPal which is another bonus for international customers and shipping is either via FedEx or EMS (Japan Post) – the 3,800 JPY I paid was by FedEx.

The speed of the delivery is exceptional and when you consider how far Japan is away, you would expect it to be longer.  I ordered my lens on 25th June, it was delivered on 30th June – 5 days!!

10/10 for Uwdigitalcamera.com  I would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone.

I’m now looking to see what I can buy next!

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My Inon UFL-165AD Fisheye Lens has been ordered from Uwdigitalcamera.com costing 37,000 JPY which is about £173 + shipping and some custom duty.  I’ll give a short review on the service from uwdigitalcamera.com once it’s arrived.

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Here are some of the first photos I’ve taken with my Canon A570IS underwater – all be it in the pool.

 
 

Here are the RAW files: 1 | 2 | 3

All 3 were taken using manual white balance and with the Inon UWL-105AD wide angle lense attached.

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I’ve just bought a new book today called ‘The Art of Diving’ by Nick Hanna and Alexander Mustard.  I’ve not had a proper read through it yet but it does have some interesting chapters aswell has some execellent photographs.  Chapters include: The Lure of the Underwater World, Going Underwater and The Art of Freediving.  Well worth checking out – here is the amazon link

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