

Huge cameras, thousand kilograms of weight, have been replaced by small, easy to handle cameras in light watertight housings or even without them, large glass photographic plates have been reduced to sensitive fine grain films (being successfully ousted by high performance electronic chip), and lighting devices have been replaced by small electronic flash lights. Since Louis Boutan and Joseph David made their first underwater photos at the French coast in 1893, underwater photography has seen great changes. 100 years have passed since the first attempts of underwater photography in the world.

The year 2002 marks the 65 anniversary of the first black and white film shot by the Slovenian divers under the sea. Film and TV in Slovenia from prehistoric times to independence
