Jason Heller & Eric Cheng are working on a piece for the May issue of Sport Diver Magazine called “Going Wide.” The column will have a sidebar with tips on wide-angle underwater photography from the communities of both Wetpixel and DivePhotoGuide.

Whether you shoot with a compact / point ‘n shoot camera or a top-of-the-line SLR, shooting wide underwater is both challenging and rewarding. “Going wide” requires specific equipment, approaches and techniques. Do you have any tips or tricks that you want to share with the readers of Sport Diver Magazine?

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LetsGoDigital reviews the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 underwater housing for Panny’s T23 digital camera. 

Excerpt: All in all I am very pleased with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 and the DMW-MCTZ3 underwater housing. Biggest plus of this camera is the large zoom range of 28-280mm that makes the camera perfect for using underwater as well as on land. It only took seconds to take the camera out of the housing…

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DivePhotoGuide is running its 2008 Underwater Photo & Video Festival at Wakatobi resort in Sulawesi, Indonesia.  Spend

7 days aboard the Pelagian

(sold out) or 11 days at Wakatobi resort with Jason Heller and Mike Luzansky of H2O Photo Pros this coming March and April, 2008. There are only a few spots left, so if you’re looking for a last-minute booking for a photo and video festival, book now.

The event is sponsored by Amphibico, Sea & Sea, Mares, H2O Photo Pros, Ultralight Control Systems, and Sport Diver Magazine, who have donated over $10,000 in prizes.  Winning images in the contest will be published in Sport Diver Magazine.

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The FAA has recently passed a new rule that limits what you can do with lithium batteries while traveling on airplanes in the US. This only applies to Lithium batteries, not to other types of batteries like NICad or NiMH. 

Moderator Cor Bosman has summarized the effect this new rule will have on divers and underwater photographers.  “Almost all batteries and devices that we as divers and photographers carry will not be impacted by this rule. This means you can still travel with them, but you must carry any spare batteries in carry on. “

He has also posted a formula you can use to determine the lithium content of your batteries.

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16:9, known for their tests and reviews of lenses by a variety of manufacturers, has introduced an adapter that allows Nikon G-type lenses to fit Canon EF-lens compatible cameras. 16:9 states the motivation was to enable the use of Nikon’s “new 14-24mm f2.8, which provides the sweetest ultrawide solution for the 22MP 1Ds Mark III.”

The adapter includes an AF-confirmation chip and maintains infinity focus, but disables VR, auto-focus, and auto-aperture functions. At £79, only the lever-free version (where the lens is stopped open or stopped down by rotating the lens in the mount) is currently available with a 35-day turnaround, but a lever-operated version is also planned.

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