The Novice Digital Photographer

Anne Brauer & Jurgen Brauer · Issue 7, Jun/Jul 2002 · pp. 40–43

Products mentioned: Olympus C-3040Zoom, Olympus PT-010 housing, Princeton Tec Shockwave dive light, Adobe Photoshop, SmartMedia disk

We are a father-daughter dive team – instant converts to the sea and to u/w digital photography. No more film! That was the biggest draw. Eliminating film means eliminating the wait to see your pictures and to learn from your mistakes. Instant underwater picture review leads to an incredibly steep learning curve. And you are not limited by a 36-frame film since digital disks allow you to take well over a hundred high- resolution shots. You merely click, review; recompose, click again, review; change the lighting, click again, review; change your position, click once more; review; change the lens, click again, review ... you get the idea. You also get essentially zero-wait, zero-cost developing and distribution across the Internet to friends and family worldwide. In this article we describe our equipment and share some pictures from our first two digital outings, in Bonaire (December 2001…