Editorial

Staff · Issue 45, Nov/Dec 2008 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Nikon D3, Nikon D700

45/ www.uwpmag.com Editorial DEMA and Antibes Apologies for the late arrival of UwP45 but I’ve just got back from exhibiting at DEMA in Las Vegas and Antibes in the south of France. Both were very pleasant events but rather than include details of them in this issue I’d like to point you to some excellent coverage at www.wetpixel.com and www.divephotoguide.com Digital capability The old chestnut used to be “Will digital ever be as good as film?” but now, with the advent of cameras such as the Nikon D3 and D700, we have a situation where digital cameras are easily outperforming film, certainly in terms of high ISO capability. This, in turn, should release a whole new set of images, never practically possible before, of , for instance, deeper wrecks in sharper detail. I say wrecks because they are of particular interest to me but what is so exciting about underwater photography at present…