Parting shot

Peter Rowlands · Issue 19, Jun/Jul 2004 · pp. 54

Products mentioned: Nikonos V, Sea and Sea 12mm full frame fisheye lens, Ektachrome 100 film

54 Parting shot Many, many years ago I was on a trip to Eilat in Israel in the days when film was film and shorediving was simple. The week had gone well with no floods and some nice exposures confirmed by my trusty traveling E6 processing kit. It was the last dive of the trip and we didn’t choose our site very well at all. It was quite a sandy, rubbly location with small patches of coral outcrops which didn’t excite my photo imagination that much. I was using a Nikonos V with a Sea and Sea 12mm full frame fisheye lens and Ektachrome 100 film. It was a lovely compact outfit. The overall scenery was a muted sandy brown so rather than shoot horizontally and waste film I decided to put the camera under corals with the camera set to “A” aperture priority and the lens aperture at F16 for maximum depth of field. There wasn’t enough room for me to get my eye behind the viewfinder so I held the …