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  • Digital technology makes it possible for anyone to get into underwater photography

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    By Christopher Robinson   

    Dive In

    If you’ve ever been snorkeling on a tropical reef, you know how incredibly beautiful and full of life the world is beneath the surface of the ocean. Until recently, if you wanted to take pictures in that environment, you either had to buy extremely expensive and temperamental gear or settle for a single-use film camera with a cheap plastic lens that you bought from the hotel gift shop. For casual vacationers, neither option offered much of a chance to get good pictures. The pro-level setup had potential, but required lots of difficult trial-and-error work, and the disposable camera...well, let’s just say they were right to call it disposable. 

    If you were like me, you viewed underwater photographers as some kind of bizarre combination of photographer and astronaut. The image of people in thick rubber suits, laden with air hoses, fins, a mask and tank, hauling a hulking camera in its oversized housing seems like something out of a Jules Verne story. That was then, this is now. Today, underwater photography is doable by just about anyone with the desire to give it a try. Equipment is easily manageable, you can shoot hundreds of photos without having to go for a new roll of film, and the results will take your breath away.



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