Equipment

Underwater dome ports made out of acrylic do have their advantages but are prone to scratches, which then might affect images in a negative way.

To clearly identify your own underwater photo gear, especially on crowded dive boats or in dive centres highly frequented by underwater photographers, labelling your photography or videography gear comes in handy.

With the needs of underwater photographers who are frequent travellers in mind, Italian underwater photography gear manufacturer Easydive has designed a new, super-lightweight trolley.

With age, it might become more difficult for one to read camera displays and other related display information while diving with an underwater photo or video system, especially when using cameras that do not have a built-in viewfinder that is adaptable for visual impairment.

With diving safety and comfort for underwater photographers in mind, Jon Anderson has designed a universal ball mount, which allows one to attach the popular Shearwater Teric dive computer to any underwater camera housing.

In case you like to sip your cocktails while shooting underwater images or videos, or if circumstances do not allow one a safe dive, an underwater drone might be a possible solution.

For owners of Sony Alpha mirrorless cameras, Fantasea has designed a battery cradle that holds one additional Sony NP-FW50 battery (of the Sony Alpha and NEX series), doubling battery life, and thus avoiding the necessity of replacing camera batteries between dives.

It happens to us all—we drop stuff, or spill something. Underwater photographers, who often will find themselves transferring or editing images in moist environments or close to water, will be reassured that butterfingers need not have catastrophic consequences.

Do you also struggle a bit looking through the viewfinder or seeing what is displayed on the rear panel of your camera?

When I spotted this strange-looking, boxy gadget in Keldan’s booth at the Boot show in Düsseldorf, I had to inquire what it was. It turned out to be the prototype of an upcoming videolight controller with which the imagemaker can remotely adjust the output of two videolights directly from the camera housing.