News

Welcome to the official DivePhotoGuide DEMA 2008 event coverage. Check back at this page over the next few days for links to all of our live coverage from the show. The DPG team will be updating this page with info on the comings and goings of the biggest dive show of the year, including new products, parties, and some of the people and players behind the scenes. Below you'll find some Day 1 coverage and links to individual product or feature coverage. You're best bet is to open up each page in a new browser or tab, and use this page as your main point of reference.

Links to specific coverage:

Pre-Show Day 0 | Aquatica | Sea & Sea | INON | Watershot | Backscatter | Ultima Digital | Fantasea | Ikelite | Gates | Light & Motion | Olympus | Mangrove | Equinox | Magic Filters | ReefNet | Subal | Indonesia Pavilion | Nauticam | Sealife | Epoque | BS Kinetics | Mares | Seatool |

Day 2: People & Players | DivePhotoGuide & Wetpixel Cocktail Party | DEMA Awards Party | Carlos Hiller Time Lapsed | Day 3: Show Floor |

DAY 1

The first day of DEMA 2008 kicked off to a steady start, as attendees flooded their way down the main show floor aisle, which at times seems to continue forever.

After two days flying solo, thankfully today the rest of the DPG team arrived. The first to arrive was the newest member of the team, Miguel Novey. Miguel will be helping us launch of few new products over the next year and may even see him begin blogging for us soon as well. Wendy & Matt got in after the day 1 show was over, so Miguel and I had our hands full all day and didn’t have much time to walk around and shoot.

Berkley White presenting a seminar in the Imaging Resource Center on
achieving sharp focus

Alex Mustard just landed from London and even Las Vegas couldn't keep him up!

Erwin Filius models one of the new DPG t-shirt designs. If you happen to be a dive resort or live aboard manager - Erwin is one of the best dive guides/dive center managers/well rounded dive professionals you will ever meet. He's available - email me if you need a great hire!

Matt Segal, Alex Mustard, Michaela & Adam Lau from Wetpixl

The New York crew representing at DEMA 2008:
Scott & Michael from Ocean Blue Divers, and Paul Bardo from Ocean Horizons in Brooklyn.

Woody Mayhew from Nexus America

Update October 24th, Late Night.

What’s up everyone? Matt Weiss here with Keri Wilk, checking in after a long day on the floor and a delicious Thai food dinner. Day 3 is a wrap and its been a great show so far. Here's a quick summary of the show so far. The photo pavilion has been really active and an excellent way to meet people. The imaging resource center has been crowded and Jason gave an interesting speech on using the Internet to promote your images and video. DPG and Wetpixel hosted an awesome cocktail party that left the underwater imaging industry hungover - we'll cover the party in depth later.

Keri has been busy promoting his new SubSee Super Macro Adapter. I have been going around getting coverage of all the new photo and video products. Miguel and Wendy have been manning the DPG booth. And Jason, well Jason is running around like a chicken with his head cut off giving seminars, having meetings, and doing 100 other things.

Keri and I have just put up some coverage of some of the photo pavilion booths - links will be updated at the top of this page. Much more tomorrow including some cool new products I bet you haven’t heard of. Check in throughout the day .

Also, for even more DEMA news Wetpixel and Deeper Blue have also been putting up daily coverage, and if you're on Twitter, search for #DEMA for coverage from @JasonDPG and others.