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The 8th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition

Friday October 12th & Saturday October 13th, 2007

At Qualcomm Hall in San Diego

American Waters, by Alex Kirkbride

In 2002, Alex Kirkbride set out on a three-year journey across the United States living in an Airstream trailer and travelling over 100,000 miles to photograph underwater images from every state. Alex's unique travels inspired an imaginative collection of photographs. The result is his book, American Waters, Foreword by Jean-Michel Cousteau, available October, ISBN# 978-0-7153-2751-7 (www.alexkirkbride.com). An exhibit of the work will be held at Hammer Galleries in New York, October 9th to November 1st.

His images were captured by the Nexus F4 housing.

The NEW 45 Degree View Finder by Inon for Nexus D200,D80,D2x, Canon 5D and 1DsMark2 housings.
Sigma 18-50 mm F2.8 EX DC Macro lens
Sigma has announced the interesting 18-50 mm F2.8 EX DC Macro lens. Like all other DC lenses this is designed specifically for digital SLR's with APS sized sensors. It offers a maximum aperture of F2.8 throughout the zoom range and a minimum focus distance of 20 cm (7.9 in) with a magnification of 1:3. This makes it an ideal lens behind a dome port without the use of a diopter for underwater use.

The lens features a spherical and low dispersion elements. This is a better alternative to the kit lenses bundled with sub-$1000 digital SLR's. On a digital SLR with a 1.5x FOV multiplier this lens provides an equivalent field of view of 27-75 mm when used with a dome port. When used behind a flat macro port it is equal to a 37.5-112.5mm. With the use of the Nexus CL external diopter on a flat port the magnification would be almost 1:1.
Special Low Dispersion (SLD) and Extraordinary Low Dispersion (ELD) glass elements provide excellent correction of color aberrations. The super multi-layer lens coating reduces flare and ghosting, a common problem with digital cameras. High image quality is assured throughout the entire zoom range. An inner focusing system eliminates front lens rotation, making the lens particularly suitable for using the petal-type lens hood (supplied) plus circular polarizing filters.

New Carl Zeiss High-Performance Lenses with Nikon F Mount

Carl Zeiss introduces a new wide-angle lenses with Nikon F mount. It covers a full 35mm frame and can be used on both analog and digital SLRs. They focus manually and can produce sharpness (200 lines per millimeter) well beyond the capabilities of the best color films available today and is ideal for the smaller pixel size digital chips. This lenses feature a long-life all-metal barrel of very high precision.

The Distagon T* 2,8/25 is a lens with pronounced wide-angle characteristics. The minimum object distance of just two inches from the front element enables unique wide-angle close-ups. It will be a 37.5mm equivalent on a digital camera when used with a small dome port. No diopter will be needed with this lens in conjunction with a dome port.

The new lens will be shipping as of: end of 2006

List prices:
Distagon T* 2,8/25 ZF: 699,00 EUR (without VAT) / $824 USD

Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF and Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF

Two New Super Fast ZEISS ZF Macro Lenses with Nikon F Mount

At f/2, the new ZEISS Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF and Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF are the fastest macro lenses for 35mm full-frame photography today - whether for film or digital capture. The two new lenses focus manually from infinity to 1⁄2-life size, capturing an object field of approximately 50x70mm at the close-focus limit. All of the ZEISS ZF lenses feature precision metal mechanics, providing the photographer with a durable, reliable tool of lasting value.

A ‘floating element’ optical system enables the Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF to deliver very high image quality over the entire focusing range.

The Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF goes several steps further by employing an optical design originally developed for the ARRI/ZEISS Master Prime T* 1.2/100. Thus, the Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF lens offers an optical performance never before available for still photography, especially at wide-open apertures and in macro applications.

The new Makro-Planar lenses are scheduled for shipment during Q1 2007 and join the ZEISS ZF family of manual focus, precision lenses for the Nikon F-mount and featuring full Nikon AI-S compatibility. Them.

The suggested list price will be:
• Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF: $1,124 USD
• Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF: $1,749 USD

ZEISS ZF range now includes 6 different lens types with focal lengths ranging from 25mm to 100m

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Nexus D2X Housing Just Arrived !

12.4 Effective Megapixels: High Resolution 12.4 Effective Megapixel CMOS DX Sensor with fast 4-channel output for 4,288 x 2,848-pixel images.

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