Community Blog
Sony A1 Review on FStopper using Outex - by Jason Vinson
Professional photographer Jason Vinson recently reviewed the Sony A1 camera for camera for the FStoppers community. Jason has been an FStoppers contributors for years. He was an early Outex customer/user/reviewer in FStoppers, and you can still find his profile and reviews on our website's Reviews and Ambassadors pages/menus. He used the Outex underwater camera housing for his review to explore the camera's limits in extreme environments and situations, such as low light, extreme contrast, and for resolution definition.
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Using ND Filters or Polarizers with Outex waterproof system
There are several ways to utilize an ND filter or polarizer with your camera lens when using the Outex waterproof system. This blog shows four (4) different options ranging from external, internal, and dome port use that secure filters to the lens of your choice. ND filters can help focus, sharpness, and dynamic range in bright environments by allowing the photographer to control depth of field and f-stop without over-exposing the image. It is specially useful for cinematography, when there are more stringent limitations on what the user can preset beforehand.
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Flash, Lighting, Strobes, Triggers, and Tethering Underwater with Gutierrez Photography
Rebecca and Marco Gutierrez, of Gutierrez Photography in Alaska, put together this tutorial for using flash, lighting, strobes, trigger, and tethering underwater. The video help professionals incorporate different lighting options for underwater photography, differentiate their work, and create memorable, unique photographs
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Photojournalists Ben Lowy & Marvi Lacar document Turtle Cold Stun in Texas
While Texas suffered through freezing temperatures and a disabled power grid, Sea Turtle Inc., a volunteer organization fought to save the lives of thousands of cold stunned sea turtles stranded on the shores of the state. With the help of a community of volunteers, Sea Turtle, sheltered around 5500 turtles so they could later re release them into the wild. The efforts were captured by professional photographers and photojournalist couple Ben Lowy and Marvi Lacar, using Sony cameras and the Outex underwater housing system.
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TV-host, Adventurer, Dr. Karina Oliane breaks world record for longest lava crossing.
Dr. Karina Oliane recognized with world record for longest Tyrolean traverse of a lava field - another nice accolade on Internation Women's Day. Karina is a medical doctor, tv-host, adventurer super hero. When she's not helping underserved kids in underdeveloped countries she's skydiving, storm-chasing, or flying while strapped to the wings of an airplane. This video shows her first experience with the Outex underwater housing system - a nice match for the globe-trotting, travel-adventure lifestyle of story telling. Can't wait to see what she does next.
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Documentary Series Ocean Subsistence by Photojournalist, Lecturer Cristiano Burmester
In this 12-part documentary series, photojournalist, lecturer, and professional photographer Dr. Cristiano Burmester documents the "ancient" way of life by families along Brazil's Atlantic coast. Each episode shows the various relationships between each conclave and their oceanic relationships, practices, culture, and subsistence. It provides a closer look at the different lifestyles that make up the multifaceted array of seafarers and their present relationships with our shared ocean waters and the Brazilian way of being.
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Faster Digital Imaging Innovation Pace Means More Choices for Photographers
It's an exciting time for the digital imaging market - at least for consumers. The migration from film to DSLR introduced a host of digital resources into the camera, but mechanical components still meant a series of functional bottle-necks in the imaging workflow. With the advent of Mirrorless, almost all of the imaging functionality transitioned into the digital domain, unleashing the traditional pervasiveness and speed of innovation into more aspects of capture, processing, transferring, and store, while simultaneously enabling typically post-production computational technologies to migrate up the imaging stream towards capture.
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Underwater Wednesday Clubhouse Podcast This Week with Brett Stanley
Professional photographer and cinematographer Brett Stanley invited Outex co-founder to participate at this week's Clubhouse podcast/interview as part of his Underwater Wednesday Photo series to talk about underwater photography, housings, and all things camera tech.
The chat takes place on Wednesday, at 12:00 noon Pacific Standard Time.
Here's the link: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/xBZlYQQ2
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Magazine and Dow Museum of Art feature Howard Lewis B&W fine art photography.
Artist Howard Lewis explores light, form, and kinetic energy in B&W photo exhibit, Kinetic Solitude, recently featured at Dow Museum of Art and Lens Scratch Magazine. For the series, he was not positioned on a ledge or cliff looking down onto the water, but rather immersed thigh deep in cold water, all the while assessing the unpredictable movement of the water and looking out for the safety of himself and his equipment. "For the series I use Outex with my Sony A7rlll with a Zeiss 55mm 1.8 lens"
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Dropped in the Pacific short film by Outex Ambassador Jessica Haydahl selected by Fly Fishing Film Tour
This short film by Outex Ambassador Jessica Haydahl shows the journey seven women are on when they embark on the adventure of a lifetime; dropped in the Pacific to fish the famous Christmas Island coral atoll. These women experience the remote nature and unforgiving weather that Christmas Island can be known for. Together as a group, they share their experiences, their difficulties and their joys. They have successes and failures all while each sharing their own personal love for fly fishing and talking about what that brings to their lives.
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Outex already supports Sony's new A1 series
This rapid pace of innovation can also mean faster obsolescence. And it's rewarding to kwon that the Outex underwater housing system supports your entire arsenal of cameras and lenses. The Outex Pro Kit already supports the Sony Alpha A1 series, just as it did the A7, A9, and AIII cameras before, along with all of Sony's optical glass. And just as exciting, is the knowledge that you can also use your Outex gear on multiple brands. So if you toolkit includes a Canon EOS R camera, a Nikon DSLR D850, a Hasselblad X, or even film cameras, it's nice to know your Outex investment is protected, and you can use all of them in a single shoot.
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Head and Specialized rely on Outex cases for Triathlon cinematography
Specialized and Head rely on Outex to make their latest sponsorship video with Portuguese Triathlon athlete Vasco Vilaça. Take a look at the short video and some behind the scenes footage of the "making-of".
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