About these articles . General Interest  Glossary of Photographic & Technical Terms.  Starting out in Underwater Photography .

 Natural vs. Artificial Light in UW Photography.

 UW Lighting Technique .

  Pictures (general and underwater).

 A Brief History of the Nikonos Camera System.

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Optics & Imaging

  Ports & lenses .

  Refraction & Snell's law 

 Optical Magnification

   Angle of Coverage (field of view).

Image Radial Correction (computer correction for lens defects).

  Flat port vs. dome port .

Compact Camera, in Air vs. Underwater (with flat port) (Canon S100).

 Optical Characteristics of the Flat UW Lens Port .
  Flat port calculations: mp_calcs.ods (open document spreadsheet, requires OpenOffice).

Finding the Focal Point of a Dome port .
PDF version .
  Dome port calculations: dp_calcs.ods (spreadsheet, requires OpenOffice).

 Underwater wide-angle converters 

LCD screen magnifiers .

polartisation of light .

Pixels & resolution .

Image sensor formats .

Camera resolution comparisons.

Film Copying (slide duplication).

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 Engineering & Maintenance

UW housing maintenance .

 IP ratings .

 Japanese O-rings .

 Depth compensating flexible camera housing  .

 Photoflash fundamentals (2006)

Flash tubes .

Mullard flash tube advertisement (1951).

TTL flash interface connections (2004).

 Underwater connectors (2012).

 Analog TV and Video standards (now mostly of historical interest)

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Web links:

Choosing monitors for photo editing.
Consider also Iiyama monitors, which can give In-Plane Switching (IPS, 8 bit per colour) quality for the cost of Twisted Nematic (TN, 6 Bit, blocky) image quality.

Kaye & Laby online (see particularly section 2.5 Radiation and Optics).
Jenkins & White. Fundamentals of Optics.
Scubageek.com .
Sam's strobe FAQ .
 Jonz Valve Pages (Vintage TV equipnent).

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