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albert kok

Member Since 02 Sep 2006
Offline Last Active Apr 15 2013 08:20 AM

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About Me

Hi there

I am from Holland and started making UW pictures in the early 70ties, using  a self-built perspex housing with a Pentax camera inside, and a perspex housed flash. Then I bought the fabulous Rolleimarin with the Rolleiflex 3.5. f, which became my good companion for many years. This camera was ideal for close-up shots, in particular fish portraits. I then switched to a Hugy systeem (Hugymarin) with a Mamya 645  that allowed me to use  wide-angle Secor lenses. Finally I ended up with the digital stuff:  NikonD80/D90/D7000 in Ikelite housings, using mostly the Tokina wide angle 10-17 and 12-24 lenses. A great advantage  of the digital camera's  was  that one could shoot hundreds of pictures during  a single dive, while with an analog  camera  in the 6X6 format this was only 24 shots. With a succes ratio of 1:10 for UW pictures,  this of course meant many more nice pictures during a  diving trip.

Favourite diving spots:  the  'Isles d'Or' in the French Mediterranean, the Red Sea, Borneo, and (more  recently)  the Bahama's.