02Nov
It’s no surprise that Patima has managed to announce their new S110 housing so quickly as the S100 and S110 cameras are almost identical. The new Canon Powershot S110 camera is the successor to the immensely popular S100 camera. Unfortunately Canon changed the new camera’s button layout just enough to make the old S100 housing [...]
30Oct
UPDATE: Read the UWL-S100 80ZM review here Japanese Inon has been very quiet lately, but now it looks like there was a reason for this as the company has now come up with a heap of new products including a very interesting new wide angle lens, which is really quite revolutionary in its design. Inon [...]
29Oct
I was working at the busy DIVE 2012 show in NEC Birmingham last weekend and managed to spot a couple of interesting new products, which you might find interesting in case you were not able to attend. Firstly I’m happy to announce that the Inon 28LD DC43 mount base will fit perfectly on the new [...]
05Oct
Nikon used to be the de facto underwater camera manufacturer for a very long time. However, since the digital era they have only produced a couple of basic compact housings but even the latest one of these is already a good seven years old. Nikon is now finally back with a new product, the Nikon [...]
01Oct
Alex from Nauticam UK was happy to share these pictures from his first dives with the new Sony RX100 camera with a Nauticam NA-RX100 housing. Thank you Alex Alex used two Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes and Fisheye FIX UWL-28M52 lens and F.I.T Macro lenses. Finally here’s a little 100% crop of that turtle just [...]
19Sep
UPDATE: READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE Everything good will eventually come to an end and now it looks like it is the time to say goodbye to the Olympus E-PL3 camera. This camera with its PT-EP05l housing was the first compact system camera that I properly dived and fell in love with as never before [...]
17Sep
Photokina has kicked off with a bunch of interesting new compact camera releases and the new Canon products will of course be under close scrutiny. From underwater photographer’s point of new the most interesting new camera is the Canon PowerShot S110 and its new WP-DC47 housing. To be honest, nothing much seems to have changed [...]
13Sep
Lately I’ve reviewed so many excellent small Nauticam housings that I feel like a broken record sometimes. They all are good and have excellent ergonomics… basically I have run out of words of praise. That is why I’m going to keep this housing adulating section short. However, there is something to say about the interesting [...]
03Sep
The F.I.T brand is not very well known in the UK but they have been producing numerous lenses and all kinds of underwater photography accessories for a while in Taiwan. I previously tested a couple of their close-up adapters, which I found to be good quality lenses. Now the company has released a large-diameter wide-angle [...]
24Aug
There are no pictures of this housing yet but Korean Patima is upping their game by brining another high-end compact housing to the market. The Sony DCS-RX100 housing by Patima will be available in Septmeber and is made from machined aluminium. It will be very similar in design with the Patima S100 housing. This housing [...]
09Aug
UPDATE : READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE Digital compact cameras are really once again getting interesting. There are already a of couple serious large sensor sized compacts out there and now Sony has joined this game. Their latest “Canon killer” the DSC-RX100 hit the shops month back and now Nauticam claims another scalp by making [...]
06Aug
If there is one camera that has been hyped around the internetz lately, it has to be the new Olympus EM-5 micro four thirds body. Today’s pixel peeping camera hyperbole is very often far removed from the realities of underwater photography and here at Deepshots I like to keep my feet firmly on the ground [...]
16Jul
Olympus is a weird company. They are always innovating new products years ahead of others but often they are somehow kooky and end up in disaster before reaching the shops. I remember many such products like the optical OM discs that were supposed to take over from CDs and the weirdest ever picture and movie [...]
10Jul
Since the disastrous YS110 Sea & Sea lost the title of best prosumer underwater strobe manufacturer and the accolade has rested tightly in the hands of Inon. The Sea & Sea YS-110 strobe never worked properly and was very quickly and quietly faded out of the market and replaced with the new alpha version. The [...]
06Jul
Dear readers. Although it is always quiet during the summer months here at DS as there are not many new products released, there is still a reason to celebrate; Deepshots had its 100 000th visitor last night! Thank you all very much for your support. When I started Deepshots about two years ago I would not [...]
19Jun
Here’s a story of what Canon should learn from others For some weeks now I have had on my table an unbranded white box with an unbranded underwater housing inside that is the shape and size, almost an exact copy of the Canon WP-DC43 casing for the extremely popular PowerShot S100 camera. The housing is [...]
11Jun
In spring I had already managed to have a quick look at a pre-production model of a new waterproof Canon compact camera called the PowerShot D20. Now the camera is ready to hit the shelves here and thanks to Canon UK I was lucky enough to dive with one last week in Cozumel, Mexico. Every [...]
11Jun
Mario Vitalini from Ocean Leisure Cameras kindly sent me these pictures from an Olympus O-MD test dive happening arranged by Olympus and Peter Bullen. Some known and unknown underwater photography enthusiast gathered to Gozo island in Malta to test all sorts of new Olympus UW photo gear. Olympus provided all the gear and footed the [...]
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