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Diving apps for your iPhone and iPad
Diving apps for the iOS platform come in a number of forms. There’s the dive magazine, dive logger, dive planner and now the divers social app. Dive magazines come in two flavours – either a downloadable app (such as DIVE and Diver …
Posted in Diving, Gadgets, holiday, iOS, Lifestyle, Travel
Tagged Air Nitrox, app, apps, Baltic Deco Planner, Closed Circuit Rebreather, DIVE, Dive Log Manager, diving, Diving Dude, EAD, END, facebook, hand, holiday, monitor, nitrox, OC, padi, planning, scuba, tdi, technical, Travel, trimix, VPM, Warning Always
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An easy way of create polar worlds of your local area (or any where google streetmap has been!)
I have previously written about how to transform a panoramic image into a polar or stereographic image using photoshop or gimp, but the other day I stumbled upon a nice little github project that utilises the panoramic images generated from …
Posted in Gadgets, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged 360, camera, demonstration, gimp, google, how to, immersive, panorama, panoramic, photoshop, project, technical, Travel
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Recreational dive case for the iPhone 4s
More and more people are taking their cameras on dive trips these days given the fact that the entry cost is quickly dropping. Whether they choose a point and shoot, DSLR or Video Camera the big question is which case …
Posted in Apple, Diving, Gadgets, iOS, iphone 4, Photography, Travel, Video
Tagged apple, camera, diving, dslr, filmic pro, good, iphone, kick-starter, technical, underwater, Video Camera, volume, water
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Technical diving on the Zenobia, Cyprus
On my latest jaunt away to Cyprus I took the opportunity to dive the MS Zenobia. It was a Swedish built Challenger-class RO-RO ferry launched in 1979 that capsized and sank close to Larnaca, Cyprus, in June 1980 on her maiden …
Should I buy an expensive dive computer for technical diving?
Plan a dive or run by computer? Recreational or technical?
One of the best things I bought when recreational diving was my Suunto D6 – not just because it was a nice looking watch but so that I could track …
Shooting underwater using a Canon and Kodak cameras
I’ve had an underwater camera for sometime now – well I mean cameras. They are the Canon A620, G10 and most recently the Kodak Zi8. I’ve thought about buying a housing for my Canon 7D from both Ikelite and Gates …
Posted in "go pro", b&H, canon, Diving, dlsr, Gadgets, how to, kodak, micro four thirds, Photography, Travel, underwater, Video
Tagged camera, Cameras Underwater, Canon A620, Canon G10, Canon G10 Case, diving, dslr, Go Pros, good, hd, Ikelite Housing, Kodak Zi8, lens, Philip Bloom, technical, UK, underwater, US, Video, water, wide
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Technical dives that aren’t that deep
Nine times out of ten, while setting up my technical gear on the boat I’m asked “How deep are you going?”. When diving the Thistlegorm the answer is 31m. Now, most people immediately respond with “what’s the point of 4 …
Posted in decompression, Diving, egypt, red sea, scooter, scuba, tdi, technical, thistlegorm, Travel, Video
Tagged Deep Diving, diving, Extended Range, external, focus, John Mason, review, Shag Rock, Sharm El Sheikh, tdi, technical, underwater
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Updated Vimeo site!
I’ve just updated my vimeo site vimeo.com/johnmason/ with the latest technical diving videos (including the epic 20min edit of my recent 110 minute X-Scooter dive on the thistlegorm with Rod)
Other videos on the site include videos shot with both …
Posted in blog, canon, Diving, final cut pro, HD, john mason, kodak, Travel, Video, vimeo
Tagged diving, Kodak Zi8, technical, thistlegorm, Video
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iPhone and iPad favourite apps
iPhone apps:
 360 Panorama – Occipital A great app to quickly capture a 360 image of your surroundings. Simply spin round and share with your friends via twitter or through the app (they’ll have to download it to their phone |
Posted in 360, 8mm vintage, air video, app, app for that, apple, btfon, Diving, Entertaining, Gadgets, google earth, gorillacam, imovie, Internet, iPad, iPhone, itunes, mobile tv, panorama, Photography, plastic bullet, sky, tiltshift, Travel, v-planner, vnc
Tagged 360, Air Video Watch, app, apps, BT, FON, Google Earth Google, Gorillacam Joby Inc, immersive, planning, technical, underwater, water
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Relaxing in Bali, oh and some technical diving!
After visiting Roatan last year we decided to return to Bali for just over two weeks of relaxation in familiar surroundings. We spent the first few days around the Seminyak area – close to the beach and Ku De Ta. …
Posted in bali, blue marlin dive, Diving, holiday, indonesia, island, Photography, tdi, Travel, trawangan, villa
Tagged Blue Marlin, Blue Marlin Dive, Blue Marlin Jen, boat, diving, Gili Trawangan, GT, heat, Ku De Ta, panorama, technical
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