Best book?

Can anyone suggest what is the best book specifically on shooting digital compact cameras underwater?

Alex

Can anyone suggest what is the best book specifically on shooting digital compact cameras underwater?

 

Alex

My book, in spanish and CD form, Fotografia submarina digital con camaras compactas (Underwater digital photography with compact cameras) is not the best book but is a good book

Pedro

Can anyone suggest what is the best book specifically on shooting digital compact cameras underwater?

 

Alex

My book, in spanish and CD form, Fotografia submarina digital con camaras compactas (Underwater digital photography with compact cameras) is not the best book but is a good book.

Pedro

I don't know of any good books focused specifically on compacts - I looked for one a year ago for my wife.

For my money, Martin Edge's book is the best underwater photography book whatever you're shooting. He covers digital compacts in the new edition, as I recall, featuring pics from the Oly 5050, though not his focus. Maybe somebody should ask Mr. Edge to release a companion volume that excises all the dSLR stuff and simplifies things for the compact market. In fact, as a contributing author to the last book, maybe the illustrious Dr. Mustard could help update it.

Hmmmm...this smells of a new book by Dr. Mustard.

Hmmmm...this smells of a new book by Dr. Mustard.

Honestly not! I am too lazy to write a book on underwater photography at the moment.

Someone asked me this question by email and I wasn't sure of the answer - so I re-posted the question here.

Alex

Alex, when you have the answer, please let us know!

But for my money and as a newbie compact user (having gone from a Pentax P&S, through a Sea and Sea DX 8000G and to a G9 in the space of a year), Martin's tome, Jack & Sue Drahful's ' Master Guide for Digital Underwater Photography and Michael Aw's two works have helped me immeasurably.

Not a book but a good read on P^S cameras as well as specific data to particular cameras.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/underwate...here-first.html

Hmmmm...this smells of a new book by Dr. Mustard.

I was just thinking that. Whoever writes the definitive P&S book needs to be able to write to a non-technical audience, exploit the limitations and strengths of a P&S, write about filters and available light photography, and write about shooting in a normal zoom range. Who do we know with that skill set? Face it Dr. Mustard, it is your destiny.

Sounds like a Mustard/Rowlands production to me...

... but I have suggested Martin Edge's third edition, with your chapter and Daniel Beecham's chapter, though it does need some background in photography, I think.

Tim

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Thanks for the responses. I can (re)-assure you that I have no plans to write such a book. I just wanted to canvas opinion as my views tend to be biased towards the books I have contributed to.

Alex

Michael Aw's Essential Guide was a big help to me. While not specifically a P&S guide, the majority of it can be applied.

Just got Aw's Advanced Guide... last night, read the majority of it on a flight on the way home, and while a lot more dSLR based, still some very applicable stuff in there.

I seem to remember a secion on Dr Mustard in there too!

Let me suggest that someone who shoots P&S and is looking for a book is probably new to underwater photography. In this context, I don't think that somethong specific on P&S is needed, but better something sound introducing underwater photography concepts.

Thinking this way, I remember which were the books that gave me this concepts: Jim Church's Essential Guide to Composition and Bryan Skerry's Successful Underwater Photography.