8X10 photographer all wet!

[sanking]

http://www.bwphotopro.com/Site/UNDER...22_CAMERA.html

Not too impressed with the rationale for this project, or the result.

Too bad he did not try something really challenging, like underwater wet plate collodion!!

Sandy

[Lachlan 717]

What about underwater pin hole?

[Jody_S]

Interesting. I'll bet you could choose a lens like a globe lens and drill holes in the barrel between elements, and flood the entire camera including film-holders, and shoot the whole thing wet. It would obviously change the optical properties of the lens, but light is light and film doesn't lose sensitivity to light when wet. Obviously salt water would complicate the whole quite a lot. Some people experimented with fluids between lens elements, but why not a whole camera?

[Frank Petronio]

What a crafty idiot!

[dsphotog]

I think the mermaids are cool...
I'd also like to see 8x10 uw close-ups of great white sharks.

[Vascilli]

"The work should show struggle and hard labor."

Okay next time I'll slit my wrists on the film when I'm loading my negatives suspended 20 feet in the air. That means I'm an artist, right?

[Tim Meisburger]

Jody, that is a great idea! Only problem would be the shutter. You could use a cap, but then you would need to mount the camera to something (weighted tripod?). It would be easy enough to test in a pool with a box camera set at eight feet or so.

[Mark Sawyer]

I think he just wants attention...

[E. von Hoegh]

What a tool.

He should take photos of the insides of giant squid.

[Jim Jones]

The mermaids deserve something better than an oversize point-and-shoot camera.