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01/05/2008: "200 PAGES "fathom" PICTURES ...... The covers, some ads"
Note All pictures were made before very wide angle 35mm lens were in common use. Ektachrome film quality was not quite equal to modern standards either. Never-the-less after 36 or more years we have a record of the quality of early underwater photography in Australia, a time when subject matter was more abundant. My best pictures were with a Rolleiflex with Planar lens. The 6x6 cm image being classed as medium format. Ron Taylor's wide angle Rolleiflex gave superb results too. Dome lens ports were the latest thing in 1972. We should also remember the best magazine printing was being done in Hong Kong and Tokyo at that time which is why Fathom was the first quality underwater magazine in Australia, using the style of Surf International which was 16 pages of color, 32 pages in black and white.
