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Underwater Photography News from DIVE 2016, Part 5: Ocean Leisure Cameras and Hugyfot
This year Ocean Leisure Cameras extended their Dive Show stand to make room for their partners Hugyfot too. OLC have a knowledgeable team of staff at the Dive Show, with plenty of them to cope with the crowds that come to get a great deal and see what is new in their equipment range.
We got together with Dave Glanfield, who showed us their most popular new product – the exciting i-DiveSite Symbiosis combi strobe and video light. There are 2 versions, the SS1 and the SS2, with the SS2 having the advantage of a digital display to assist the photographer with an easy view of the strobe settings. Both versions have a 2000 lumen video light, which can be removed, fitted to the top of a strobe. The SS2, in addition to the digital display, also has a more powerful strobe. We hope to get our hands on this in the near future to do a review, so watch this space.
Another hot item for the Dive Show on the Ocean Leisure Cameras stand was the GoPro Hero 5. These diminutive cameras have a huge following and any new version is going to attract plenty of interest from the diving community.
Hugyfot were also concentrating on the GoPro market with their main display showing off their 200m depth rates GoPro housing, that boasts a macro lens and red filter. The modular system can be tinkered with to adjust the length of the arms and also to get the system neutrally buoyant. This year Hugyfot also have new 1,500 lumen video lights. Alas, the team were not so happy when we visited the stand, as someone had just stolen a rucksack with a full GoPro system inside, worth over £1000. It is very sad to have this happen at the Dive Show.
Hugyfot led the way on the vacuum seal that is now popular with many manufacturers. Their housings are always good looking and the new housing for the Nikon D500 is no exception. With OLC as their UK partners, they are bound to do well and we can only hope that the rest of the show went well for them.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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