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Not sure about the G9 but on the SD850is the underwater SCN mode doesn't work very well. There is way too much blue still in the photo not much different from auto. However, when I shoot with a custom white balance, the photos have great natural looking color - without having to do any post...

I'd say look very carefully and think about it before you decide. The Ikelite should be more rugged. The Ikelite should allow additional lenses to be used. Sometimes you can still use lenses with adapters on the Canon housing but sometimes they don't work as well as with the IkeLite. Some...

A nice free tool that supports many raw formats is: Fasstone Image viewer And a really nice shareware one for raw with lots of raw edit capabilities: Raw Therapee I used DNG4PS-2 to convert my Canon SD850IS CHDK raw images into DNG format and then used Raw Therapee from there. For some reason...

Have you talked to SeaLife? They give you a special discount price for replacement if it is out of warranty. You might have to ship it back to them first though. I'd give them a call and ask. --- bill

My wife has the SD850is with the WP-DC15. Very similar case setup. Put the camera in the housing and take a few shots with flash in a dimly lit room against a white wall. Compare shots with diffuser vs without. You should see an obvious difference. Without the diffuser, you will...

I think what would really help would be if Oceanic/Pelagic were to go to IR instead of using a mechanical connection for the serial port. Then, many of these mechanical connection & wet contacts issues would go away. IR might use more battery power though.... --- bill

Version 2 of the PC download software does not support the Atom 1.

My guess is that the download connector doesn't fit quite as tight in the hole on the Aeris 2 as it used to. First, if you are running 2.x ACI, look at the top line of the download dialog window. (The one that comes up after you click [+] and select your computer type) If you see: "USB...

Because the SAC rate is based on volume of air consumed, the s/w has to know the size of your tank. Just knowing the start and end pressure isn't enough to know how much volume of air was consumed. In Imperial units (non metric) the method of measuring the tank size is done when the tank is...

The IXUS 750 is the SD550. (Crazy Cannon Number scheme). Yes it has manual white balance. See page 55 of the manual. Downloaded here: IXUS750/SD550 User Guide My wife has the SD850 (IXUS950) and we found out that the built in underwater SCN mode didn't work very well. It left way too much...

Its not that easy. There are several fields in the database that are not in the export data. Also, there are some Indexes for the dives and dive profile data that need to be set up properly. To make it more complicated, the format of the export file has a variable number of fields on each...

Oceanic/Aeris can create "export" text files but they cannot import them. If you really want/need to get the data back into a s/w dive log you can purchase a 3rd party s/w package. Not sure about the others but I know that Scubase can import the dives and profile data from your Aeris ACI...

My wife and I really like it. See my post about it in this thread: (it is post #3 in the thread) 870 is beginner camera? Thread was about the 870 but my post was about the 850is. If you want to see some photos, check out the sample photos on my wifes web page. Its in the other post, but...

They both have the same algorithm, program the same and display the same data. The Oceanic is larger and has slightly larger digits. Because the display is larger the tissue loading bar graph and the o2 saturation bar graph has more "dots". It doesn't alter anything, it has more dots to get...

Well, Yes & No are both correct. Yes it does track the beginning and ending pressures. However, you cannot see them unless you purchased a download cable and use it to download the dive information to a PC running windows. There is no way to see this and other information like average depth...

Normally I would agree with a statement like this. However, since Oceanic does not provide a way to import one of their own text export files, the export function has to be assumed to be primarily for the benefit of 3rd parties rather than Oceanic. --- bill

While not the sd870IS, I think that most if not of all this will apply. I bought my wife the SD850is last year along with the Canon housing. I don't like and would not recommend the Ikelite housing because it doesn't support the "print" button which can be assigned to other functions like...

All the nitrox computers out there will let you set your Nitrox PO2/F02 on a per dive basis. So, if you only want/need to switch nitrox mixes between dives rather than switch gas blends during the actual dive, you won't need a computer that supports multiple gases or trimix. As far as large...

Here is a good thread on this topic: Dive Light Help me choose --- bill

Not that I think it is totally necessary but if you want to put a cap on the QD fitting on the computer to keep dust/lint etc out of the hole, you can purchase a rubber/vinyl cap from Lowes Hardware for about 50 cents. See photo, you want the orange one. It fits perfectly. --- bill