Disposable digital / Climate change

Staff · Issue 36, May/Jun 2007 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Olympus underwater digital housings

Disposable digital Having been involved in repairing underwater photography equipment for over 30 years I have a train of thought that all things mechanical should be repairable as long as spare parts are available. I accept that electronic boards are cheaper to replace than repair reliably but when I’m told by Olympus UK that no spare parts are available to repair their excellent range of underwater digital housings I think it is a sad endictment of our throw away society encouraged by equipment manufacturers. Climate change There’s an old saying (which I’ve just made up) which says “Nothing much happens until the media take it onboard” and this could well apply to global warming and greenhouse gases. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report predicts that average global temperatures will rise by between 2˚C and 4.5˚C by 2100. This comes at a time when the heavi…