davichin

Hello all!

 

There is going to be an International Open Photosub at Mazarron, Murcia in the south east coast of Spain, a great place to dive:

 

http://www.openfotosubmazarron.com/

 

 

 

 

 

It has many great cash prizes   :

 

 

 

 

And there is an online competition right now where you can win a free registration for the main competition including stay on fullboard etc...:

 

http://www.openfotos...php/open-online

 

 

Good luck!!! and just ask me if you have any translation problems or competition doubts

 

 

 

I will be there and I hope to meet some wetpixelers!

Hello!

I just won in a photography competition a three week diving trip for two, including flights from Singapur, to Loloata, Walindi and Febrina. As like mostly everybody, I don´t have endless holydays, so the best time for me would be Christmas time as we have holydays then and I would spend less of my vacation days on the trip. My doubts are that, first of all, Febrina ends its 2013 trips on december 24 and I don´t find many people going to PNG on that time of the year, which seem to be negative facts...

Is that a no-no time to go to PNG due to low visibility and/or bad weather? I would choose spending more of my vacation days in another month (say august etc...) if it was the case. If so, which would be the best time of the for a trip like that?

Thank you very much in advance!

P.S: Please PM me if you feel more comfortable about anything you consider important or interesting about this topic or the involved operators (of which I have read good reports).

SAGA has always surprised us UWPhotogs with solutions to long term problems like using ports in a different housing brand by constructing adapter rings or flipon-flipoff wet lenses mechanisms, length changing macro port etc... Now, after several trials by different photographers and Retra of installing a lens at the end of a snoot, they have built their own version which includes very clever and useful new ideas:

- It has a focusing mechanism to adapt to the required distance (the lens screws in-out).
- It has a group of optical fibers to conduct the strobe´s target light to the center, so even strobes with off-centered target lights (Inons, S&S YS-D1...) can be used and "pointed", and with a non-diffused but strong light (see pic).
- It has a rolling disc with different diameters (I guess one can make any shape...) with confirmation "clicks" on every step.

I have not tried it yet but it really seems smart. Contact www.sagadive.com

Pics:

General view:






Extended lens:




Inside:





This is a picture of the target light, which seems very bright:





One strobe shot:




Some pool tests:

Hello all,

I am not into video at all but, for a job at my company I have the need of using a big crane with a demolition tool underwater (for a reinforced concrete caisson removal). I am searching for solutions on how to attach a camera and housing to the tool, feed it electrically (it has to be working some 12 hours straight...), and have a signal cord to the crane´s cabin (where I would install a screen for the driver) some 100-150 meters long. I think that even a WA HD GO PRO would do but I don´t know how to feed it electrically. I also thought of a DSLR with Seacam´s remote vision (or a normal screen) but I face the same electrical feed problem... Is there any idea that you would suggest?

Thank you very much!