Maurico Handler has provided a mini review of the Aquatica A5000 housing for the Nikon Coolpix 5000 digital camera. Handler also provides some exciting shark photos in his A5000 portfolio.

"Aquatica has done a fine job in housing this camera," concludes Handler, "they have attacked the design, building and delivery of a housing in a short period of time. In a market that changes every three months if not sooner, this is a gargantuan achievement."

Read o­n for the photos and review.

In our reviews area, Rod Klein provides readers with his enthusiasm for the Light & Motion Titan Housing. The review is supplemented with an exclusively Titan gallery shot in Cayman.

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Light & Motion's aluminum housing for the Olympus E10/E20 Digital SLRs.

Light & Motion’s Tetra housing accommodates Olympus’ latest digital camera, the 4 megapixel C-4000 Zoom. The C-4000 pairs nicely with the Tetra housing and allows you to focus o­n the task at hand… capturing great digital images.

Tetra includes a custom glass flat port, strobe arm ready mounts for most strobe arms and bulkhead ports to support Wetlink underwater strobe connectors. Optional accessories include Wetlink strobe connectors, Wetmate underwater changeable lens system and Tetra Pointer light. Tetra can be purchased as a solo housing or as part of a complete Travel Package including strobe(s), sync cord(s), extra lenses and custom case.

Canon Japan has created a webpage for underwater digital photography.

The log and slides for James Wiseman's chat at reefpix.org are now posted. The powerpoint can be viewed at http://www.reefpix.org/. Read o­n for the chat log.

Since many Wetpixel readers are interested in what is going o­n with Jim (in addition to the bahamas trip) since his adoption of digital, read o­n to see his schedule.

Bonaire Digital Shootout-November 9 - 16, 2002

Splash into the world of underwater digital photography at the second annual underwater Digital Shootout in Bonaire November 9 - 16, 2002. Jim will be o­ne of the speakers and judges at the "shootout.” [Click for More]

Komodo, Indonesia- Digital shootout.- November-December 2003- 3 trips

The third annual digital shootout for 2003 is coming together. It looks like it will be in November with the dates still to be confirmed. [Click for More]

Africa was a bit disappointing this year for white sharks. Weather played a big part with storm after storm in the cape area that kept Jim off the water for days. [Click for More]

Next Week Jim will be off o­n a month long voyage with NOAA o­n contract to photograph the Northwest Hawaiian islands.

Ikelite announces September availability of their new Fuji S2 Pro digital SLR housing. The Fuji S2 Pro utilizes Nikkor lenses and is compatible with all of their TTL SubStrobes for a complete system of proven components. For more information, visit Ikelite's web site.

David Breitigam and Eric Cheng go to Las Vegas to get the latest scoop. The most comprehensive DEMA report wetpixel has ever done!

Eric Cheng presents a web journal of a Bahamas trip with Jim Watt, David Fleetham, and Andy Sallmon, with Jim Abernethy's Scuba Adventures.

Wetpixel contributor James Wiseman (jamesw) is moderating an o­nline chat about digital underwater photography, which will take place o­n Wednesday July 24th 9pm Eastern:

I'd like to introduce you to my new website with an o­nline chat and you are all invited! Please take your wetsuit off before coming inside...

What I plan to do is present a talk I gave to my local UW Photo Society called "From Film to Digital" The talk will be geared for both beginners and "seasoned" UW photographers. I plan to cover the "state of the practice" as well as the "state of the art" - since I have done intensive research and recently received my new Digital SLR.

I have put all my slides up o­nline so everyone can follow along during the talk just like it is a slideshow. After the "presentation" I think it would be great if we could have a roundtable discussion where everyone can share their unique expertise and "tips and tricks" for each camera/housing system. For more details -->