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Nice shots. Your fourth pic is a sculpin, though, not a painted greenling. Painted greenlings are these guys: Chris

A good place for lunch or breakfast is Crepes-a-go-go. It's on wave street near the aquarium. Pretty cheap and you can get super tasty crepes either stuffed with sweet stuff or more lunchy sandwich stuff. The local Monterey free papers have big resteraunt lists in them so you can always look...

Hawaii fish are pretty easy to narrow down once you get a few characteristics down. Like hawkfish tend to be resting on the reef unlike most hawaii fish. Surgeonfish have the barb on their tails. Wrasses have a recognizable shape and are usually crazy colors...etc etc. Like any other place...

Get some ID books. I've never really found the internet to work as well as good ID books. EDIT: Looks like a stocky hawkfish: http://species.fishindex.com/photo_29939cirrhitus_pinnulatus.html

My brother had the E900 with ike housing and it seems great. I have the older F810 and also love it. For me RAW would be necessary for any UW camera but i know others disagree with me on that so that's a personal thing. But most seem to agree that manual exposure settings are a must have. I...

I had an F810 with no strobe for a long while and managed to get pretty good results. I would say use the diffuser card thing for the flash (at least it's a card for the ike housing i don't know about the fuji). Try to get within a foot if you're using the flash to get any details. I always...

Does your camera have RAW? That would help remove some of the color cast you have in the pics. Even with the original jpeg photoshop can help some. Otherwise i'd agree with the above post. For shots like this turn off the flash and set the whitebalance to get the color. Before i got my...

If they're digital look at the exif.

Also how far were you from the sponge? The pic you posted as what you were going for and Rich's pics i imagine were both taken a lot closer than they look with a pretty wide lens. With an external wet lens like the inons you could get closer to the sponge and keep it framed the same and get...

I've got some diver shots from Monterey in my gallery. And some more i haven't put up yet. More here: http://chrissyt.smugmug.com/Monterey Diver shots are mixed in with all the others. Not sure what you're after but if you want to use any in my gallery just let me know. Chris

I would always recommend taking in RAW if you're taking available light shots like these (i take RAW 100% of the time). Then you don't have to worry about white balance until you are at the computer and have time. But of course like others said close close close and then get a little closer...

Because more lube and more manipulation of the oring isn't necessarily a good thing. I lube my oring maybe every 6 months diving every other weekend or more. When it comes to orings make sure it's clean but overall try to leave it alone as much as possible. Chris

Monday's aren't good for me but as to the dive club. Google gave me: http://www.sjflipperdippers.com/ Not sure how i feel about the name but they seem active. ;) Chris

Their gills are the frilly things on their butts.

Lots of us dive Monterey regularly. I'll be around and able to dive at least Sept 2-4 or so. Shoot me a PM if you want to go out. Chris

I don't know about the other cameras on your list but you can get away with the internal flash on the E900. Sure, you have to get pretty close, but that's good practise anyway. Even with a strobe you want to be as close as possible to the subject. You can also take available light "scenery"...

I've actually had this happen a couple of times. Always at the beginning of the dive so it was never scary. Both times i ended up upside down finning down. I think the first time i started to dump from my rear dump valves but realized that wasn't going to fix anything until the BC stopped...

My longest dive was my deepest dive strangely. 90 mins or so. Max depth 131' taking pictures of a group of anthias on Hawaii. Only at depth for 10 mins or so. Then spent rest of dive slowly going from 40'-the surface. Don't know average depth but majority of dive was in the 30' range...

A flashlight is good if you need more light to focus. But it won't help much with the exposure. Even a very bright HID puts out nowhere near as much light as does a strobe. With high shutter speeds you won't see the flashlight light at all.

If you have the Ike controller then this is normal. Happens to me all the time on the surface. You can also set it off by hitting it quickly with the beam of a dive light.