News - December 2005
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BSoUP
Open Portfolio 2005
December
BSoUP meeting
BSAC Travel Club Photographer of
the year
Sea & Sea equipment recovered
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Martin
Davies LRPS
Magic filters
Aquatica housing for a Fuji S2 for
sale
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Open
Portfolio 2005 competition
Congratulations
to Jane Morgan for winning the BSoUP Open Portfolio competition 2005.
Jane
will be custodian of the trophy this year and wins a £100
cheque offered by the competition sponsor, DIVE
Magazine and presented by Circulation Manager Gill McDonald.
Second
place went to Alex
Mustard, third to Len
Deeley, fourth to Heather
Hammond and joint fifth to Peter
Scoones and Pedro
Vieyra. |
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December
BSoUP meeting
OPEN
PORTFOLIO COMPETITION
Please
email digital entries to competitions@bsoup.org
N.B. DO NOT send digital entries to Alex Mustard - if any entries
have already been sent to Alex they will be OK. but no more
please!
The
Annual Open Portfolio
Competition is open to both members & non-members.
Each entry must comprise a portfolio of six images selected
by the
photographer. The six images may be submitted as 35 mm slides
or as a single digital image.
If
you are submitting your six images digitally then please see
the guidelines at www.bsoup.org/Open_Portfolio/digiguide.php on resizing and preparing your images for projection. |
Digital
entries must either be submitted electronically by
Tuesday 3 p.m. 20 December or brought to the meeting.
The images may be taken anywhere in the world but not in an
aquarium or pool.
The
winner receives the BSoUP Trophy and a cheque for £100
donated by DIVE
magazine, who reserve the right to publish the winning entries.
THE
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Alcohol,
yummy food, natter. That's it!
Seasons
greetings to all and we wish you a peaceful and rewarding
2006.
gill
mcdonald |
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BSAC
Travel Club Photographer of the year
Congratulations to Gavin Parsons for winning the Open category
of the BSAC
Travel Club Photographer of the Year. Gavin's oceanic
white tip shark shot secured him a free place on board Peter
Hughes' Wind Dancer in Tobago as well as a framed certificate
from the British Sub-Aqua Club.
The
2005 runner-up was last year's winner Pedro Vieyra for his
shot of 3 manta rays. 3rd place went to Jim Greenfield for
his mating woolf fish.
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Oceanic
whitetip shark. © Gavin Parsons |
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Sea
& Sea missing equipment recovered
British
diving equipment retailer Sea & Sea, of Paignton in Devon,
which had announced the suspected theft of a large consignment
of cameras, wide-angle lenses and underwater housings, has
found its cargo safe and sound.
The
equipment had simply been misdirected at Heathrow airport.
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Martin
Davies LRPS
Conngratulations
to BSoUP Committee member Martin Davies, who has received
recognition of his photographic acheivements by being awarded
a Licentiateship
of the Royal Photographic Society (LRPS).
LRPS
is the first level of Distinction awarded by the Royal
Photographic Society and requires the submission of 10
prints, 10 slides, 10 images on CD-ROM, 10 minutes of slide
sound sequences or 15 minutes of film or video.
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Magic
filters for digital underwater photography
Magic
Filters are a new filter for available light underwater photography
that have been developed by Wetpixel Co-Admin & BSoUP Competitions Officer Alex Mustard. The filters allow you to
take colourful UW images, with your DSLR, with just ambient
light, between the surface and 15m (50ft).
Magic
differ from other UW filters as they are made as optical quality
gels and are therefore compatible with popular wide angle
lenses such as fisheyes and ultra-wide zooms. The filter is
targetted at SLR lenses, and sold as pre-cut gels to fit them.
At the moment we don't offer the filter for digital compacts
(as UR Pro already make great filters for these cameras).
We are selling the Magic filter to answer the problem that
DSLR photographers had - that there weren't filters for our
fave lenses. That said, if a compact user wants to buy a Magic
filter and cut it with scissors to fit inside their port,
we won't stop you. |
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Aquatica
housing for a Fuji S2 for sale
I
have an Aquatica housing for a Fuji S2 digital camera - pic
attached - the dome and extensions. I also have the zoom adapter
for a Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 AF-S lens. It comes complete with
half a trillion spare 'O' rings and is in a Tenba camera bag.
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In addition, I also have two Nikonos flashes, one 102 and
a 105, both complete and with more spare 'O' rings.
I am looking to get rid of the lot because I want to change
digital cameras and the housing is camera specific.
I also have Fuji S2 digital camera for sale, which I can
put together in a job lot, if anyone is interested.
The price for the housing and flashes is 3,000 Sterling.
The camera, which I shall have serviced at Fuji before selling,
is 900 Sterling. However, together as a package, 3,500.
I am in Australia, on the gold Coast and insured post will
be at my expense. Else, my daughter, who will be here for
most of January '06 and can bring it back to the UK for
me, should there be any interest.
Kevin
Wilton [mailto:wilton@eeek.tv]
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