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Written: March 12, 2003
Last Updated: March 12, 2003

Underwater Photography, Camera RAW, and the EOS-10D at the March 2003 COBA Meeting.

We had a great meeting tonight at the March Camera Owners of the Bay Area user group meeting. Jim Rose was on hand at the beginning of the meeting to demonstrate the new Canon EOS-10D. Canon has learned from the production problems that plagued the D60. The 10D will be shipping in mass quantity -- no more order the camera and wait 3 months to get it!

The AF system certainly seemed better than on the D30 and D60. I think the 10D would be a good complement for a photographer with a 1D or a 1Ds. If I was a D30 or D60 owner, however, I'm not so sure that I would upgrade. You have to ask yourself, am I getting the most out of my current camera? If the answer is no, then you probably should try to keep up with the Jones'.

Uwe Steinmueller gave a presentation on Adobe's new Camera RAW plug-in. I purchased it last week and have been pleased with the product. I normally don't shoot in RAW due to the crappy Canon conversion software, but the ease of use of Adobe's product might change that.

In Uwe's experience the Camera RAW does a great job of adjusting the white balance of an image (with the temperature and tint controls). For the best RAW workflow experience, however, Uwe uses PhaseOne's Capture One software.

Following Uwe's presentation, Eric came to talk about underwater photography. Last year, Eric spoke at the third COBA meeting about UW Photography, but he's learned much since then. Instead of talking about what Eric presented, I will just tell you look at his web site:

Following the meeting, I went to Stanford to check my mail and see Flo, who was working at Meyer Library on a film project. Then, it was back to the house in Cupertino to continue working on the revolution!

And now for some pictures from the evening.

Canon EOS-10D #1

Canon EOS-10D #2

Uwe

Underwater Housing for D60

Eric and his photos

Dave H.

Phil finds his driver's license!

Mark

Flo and me at Meyer

Enter The Photo Gallery

Reader Comments

Hey, I am looking to buy an underwater housing for the 10D, where I will be taking pictures from my homeland's sea life(Brazil-Salvador). The temperature is quite high, do you have any suggestions?

--posted by Alen Torres @ Saturday, March 22 2003, 15:02 pm EST

Is there a housing out for the Canon D10 ?
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Jonas

--posted by Jonas Dolkart @ Tuesday, June 10 2003, 19:50 pm EDT

Funny your looking for the same thing as I am.
I have been searching the web for this housing, and so far the only housing I have found is from Ocean Brite. Here is the link:
http://www.underwater-photography.info/article4.html

I hope this helps you. If you find any other housings, please let me know.
Thanks and good diving
Bob

--posted by Bob Lane @ Saturday, August 30 2003, 21:11 pm EDT

There are other housins out check out digideep.com

I am going to wait until the ikelite housing comes out and than comapre that one to the jonah housing

--posted by Jonas Dolkart @ Saturday, September 13 2003, 20:47 pm EDT