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Shooting with compact cameras

Tony Wu takes a compact camera down and writes about his experiences

Posted: 16 June 2008 01:45 PM
Last Update: 19 June 2008 12:59 AM
4 comment(s)
Categories: News,  Photo News
Author: Eric Cheng ( echeng )
Related Link: Tony Wu Compact

Professional underwater photographer and good friend Tony Wu has written a post on his personal blog about shooting underwater with compact cameras. Tony took a Sony W300 down for some dives and set it on underwater white-balance mode.  He managed to get some fantastic images!

… whatever the camera is doing, it clearly works. What this means in practical terms is that with just your compact digital camera and a normal housing, you can take nice, colourful photos. There’s no need to get fancy or invest in anything else.

4 Comment(s):

  1. Interesting.  I wonder if the underwater mode is just a preset white balance, or if the camera also decides to underexpose, and tweak the curves too.

    Cheers
    James

    Posted by James Wiseman  on  06/16  at  02:28 PM

  2. What housing was the camera in?

    Posted by wydeangle  on  06/17  at  05:28 AM

  3. I could find no housing for this camera, even on digideep.  What is the housing you are using?

    Posted by secretsea18  on  06/17  at  03:29 PM

  4. Nothing special. Standard kit housing from Sony. Just look on the Sony page. Every manufacturer has the little plastic housings for their cameras

    http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId;=-1&categoryId=8198552921644518396&productId=8198552921665309162&returnUrl;=&accDeptCategoryId;=&accessory=true

    Posted by tonywu  on  06/19  at  12:59 AM

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