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The increasing use of digital cameras has reduced the learning curve of underwater flash significantly, since the user can instantly review photos and make adjustments. Color is absorbed as it travels through water, so that the deeper the observer, the less reds, oranges and yellow colors remain. The strobe replaces that color.
Festival International du Film. 2003 Grand Prix du Public - Aventure & Decouverte for 'Shark Tracker', + Special Jury Prize; Festival Mondial de l'Images Sous-Marine, Antibes. 2002 First prize – Grand Format Films for 'Shark Battlefields' (BBC) Antibes Underwater Film Festival. 2000 Bronze Award - Grand Format Films ' Ocean Empires'
In 1909, Albert Samama Chikly took the first underwater shot. [1] In 1910, he filmed Tuna fishing in Tunisia under the patronage of Albert I, Prince of Monaco. [2] In 1940 Hans Hass completed Pirsch unter Wasser (i.e. Stalking under Water) which was published by the Universum Film AG, lasted originally only 16 minutes and was shown in theatres before the main movie, but would eventually be ...
The self-contained amphibious underwater Calypso 35mm film camera was conceived by the marine explorer Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), designed by Jean de Wouters and manufactured by Atoms in France. It was distributed by La Spirotechnique in Paris from 1960. The camera is rated to operate down to 60 m (200 ft) below sea level.
Nikonos is the brand name of a series of 35mm format cameras specifically designed for underwater photography launched by Nikon in 1963. The early Nikonos cameras were improvements of the Calypso camera, which was an original design by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Belgian engineer Jean de Wouters. [1]
A snorkel is used to allow the user to breathe atmospheric air when their face is immersed in water while swimming or floating at the surface. [1] To work effectively, the snorkel must allow the user to inhale and exhale comfortably over an extended period, and provide a sufficient volume of air with appropriate oxygen and carbon dioxide content to maintain a sufficient and comfortable ...
Media diving is professional underwater photography and filming, and related underwater work, often in support of television documentaries or films with underwater footage. Media divers are likely to be skilled camera operators who trained as divers to expand the scope of their operations, though some have started as recreational divers and ...
Films in which a significant part of the plot involves underwater diving using breath-hold, scuba, surface supplied, saturation, armoured atmospheric pressure suits or artificial gills, or underwater documentaries in which visible divers are part of the story.