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Shooting RAW helps, but a strobe helps more. You need both. RAW: The problem is the water above you absorbs light selectively, longer wavelengths first like red and orange. Near the surface, there is little effect. At 10 meters, much of the red is gone; at 30, almost all red is gone. But...

It sure could have been the hair. The few housings that I have done post mortems on had fibers under the O-ring. Someone applied the silicone grease with a Q-tip, which left little bits of cotton in hard to see locations. Enough to cause problems. You'll probably never know for sure, but...

Did I mention this gets to be a religious debate? 1. Hotshoe? It's old school. Do you need it? No, not if you buy a strobe that can watch your camera's flash and imitate its duration. Most midrange to high end strobes can nowadays. The two strobes I suggested, Inon S2000 and Sea&Sea...

Your shots are marvelous! I'll have to try Anilao one of these times. Dauin is my macro haven, but there are different critters at Anilao. Nice work anyway. The supermacro mode does not allow the flash to fire, as already discussed in this forum. This is what Olympus decided was best...

Yeah, the red light gets absorbed by water. It's not that they turn green, its just that only blue and green is left. You can stumble along without a strobe, if you can do manual white balance with the camera. If not you and fix it in Photoshop with an action called mandrake (google it). If...

Remember that Olympus does not make the Panasonic 7-14mm or 8mm fisheye lens, so they can't be expected to be extremely helpful about it. They only tell you their 14-42 and 9-18 will fit their standard port, which is fact, they do fit and they do work. But the 9-18 will work a lot better in a...

You might want to check with Jack Connick at Optical Ocean there in Tacoma. He has all these cameras and you can handle them and get good advice too. Highly recommended. Olympus Micro Four Thirds Cameras, Housings & Accessories - Optical Ocean Sales Underwater Photo - 800-359-1295!

Cisco, the parent of Flip cameras, has announced plans to close out the popular Flip video camera line in a cost savings move. This was unexpected and surprising, since Flip is so popular and Cisco paid about $550 for the line recently. But the pressure to cut losses forced the decision...

Choice of camera and housing can become a religious debate. People tend to love the camera they have, and mistrust the unfamiliar. Dealers sometimes upsell, when all a diver needs is basic set. So it's hard to get a recommendation without baggage. I'll offer mine, from the "Keep it simple"...

Die hard Olympus underwater fan here. I have both systems, the E-PL1 and E-620. Yes the E-620 is faster, but the smaller size of the E-PL1 gives it the edge for travel. However, lenses are extremely expensive for the E-PL1, so your system cost may be similar if you get a lot of lenses...

I think Sabang might offer most of what you are looking for. Plenty of excellent Dive shops to train in, many good dive sites. A wreck or two planted, a cave to swim through (very short, but fun), larger fish at Canyons, Verde Island. Oh, and night time activities abound. Subic is good for...

A C-130?? Firetrucks? I did see the skeletal remains you posted and wondered why they were not recovered, but then I remembered this is in Texas. I'm curious how so many military wrecks are in this lake, and have trouble imagining how firetrucks could get there too. But how did your 7mm...

Ummm... for what brand of camera?

Those were stunning. I put my order in for a 45mm. Just wondering, when you say "once set, the camera is as fast.. " do you mean once the camera has acquired focus, it's fast to shoot? or it focuses fast when the focus is about right? I'm lost. I know this lens has a distance switch to...

I have no connection with Ikelite, but I checked the minimum time between flashes at the Heinrichs Weikamp site. According to that, the later DS125s had a minimum time of 25 milliseconds between flashes, while the DS160 had a minimum time of 8 milliseconds. If that is true, certain digital...

Umm.... That's 52mm, not 54mm on the FIX S95 housing, and 46mm, not 54mm, on the Recsea S95 housing. Whatever. The Recsea and FIX housings are both excellent. There are subtle differences between them which can matter a lot when adding wet lenses. Mostly they are related to how effective...

Welcome, and good diving to you. My motto is keep it simple especially with underwater cameras for new divers. That means using a simpler less expensive camera at first. No point in risking your D5000 getting destroyed because of inexperience. A nice camera to start with is a Canon S95 in...

I'm using the Panasonic M43 adapter. I did not like the new plastic Olympus type II adapter. The Panasonic adapter has Metal mounts and is not expensive. I don't have an Olympus M43 adapter, so I can't swear it will fit the Zen port. But the Panasonic does and this allows mounting the E...

The 50 does not fit the standard port from Olympus. In the Zen 9-18mm port, it fits very snugly. The lens is contacting the sides of the port barrel. Surprisingly, it works. Unfortunately as it focuses the lens will contact the dome. The lens is not harmed, but I'm not going to risk...

The Ikelite EV Controller is powered by an Ikelite DS strobe to which it is attached. The SB105 won't power it. Thus it only works with Ikelite DS strobes. This strobe is not compatible with the flash timing of this Canon A620 camera. The interval between the preflash and main flash on the...