My compact way

Tony Reed · Issue 140, Sep/Oct 2024 · pp. 65–68

Products mentioned: Olympus TG4, Weefine WFL-02, Light and Motion Gobe video light, Marelux

When I was asked by Peter Rowlands of Underwater Photography Magazine to select some of my favourite photos taken with a compact camera to showcase their capabilities, I jumped at the chance to show off and talk about compacts as I feel they get a little bit of bad press in the underwater photography world. With technology ever evolving and electronics becoming smaller isn’t the future compact? With that said they are still very limited in what they can do at the moment so for a lot of the time while taking photos you will need quite a bit of patience to capture sharp images!. I do really enjoy using compacts for many reasons! The main reason being you can still get great acceptable photos with very limited technology. The fun part of that is the challenge in creating images you like the look of yourself. Another reason is the size of the cameras and housings as I do enjoy getting the ca…