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    Help for the new guy?

    I do have a 105 and actually prefer it. So, the extra subject-to-film distance, diffusers on the strobes, a tiny app, and fast shutter, and I've got it! Yeah, right. Thank you to all who have replied! If I read between the lines in all these, I hear "trial-and-error is the key" and...
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    Help for the new guy?

    Yup, you're right. I was spinning a bit. For the testing, I've a D70 in an Aquatica D70 housing with two YS-120's and a 60MM Nikkor D. Everything works fine mechanicaly. I can take non-strobe pics fine (as you suggest). Lens stops down fine. And I CAN get the pics to darken to viewable images...
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    Help for the new guy?

    OK - I admit it. Sheesh, how embarrasing, I have been shooting so long with it, I have gone completely stupid. No longer a "real" photgrapher, I am relegated to the front row to study again. I received my new Aquatica D70 and as promised, the YS-120's do not TTL. Okay, I am ready to shoot...
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    Help for the new guy?

    So now we expose the soft under belly... I learned and shot manual with my first camera, a Nik V, but it always seemed to intimidate me. I just don’t think I ever quite “got it”. When I bought the housed 90, I never looked back and of course now shooting manual mind boggles me. Can you point me...
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    Pony mounting advice

    A couple of years ago we (small rural fire district) bought 6 sets of new gear including 30 ft3 pony bottles which came with "mounts". I use the term loosely because they're crap - velcro straps around a double 'v' shaped bracket - the things have never tightened properly. But budgets being what...
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    Help for the new guy?

    Excellent feedback folks! Thank you. I had not even gotten to the stage of realizing my Aquatica bayonet ports (as pointed out by dbh and fdog) will fit the D70 housing. This probably puts me in the D70 camp for sheer cost alone (and still a strong quality rig). I read somewhere else this...
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    Help for the new guy?

    I have been shooting UW since the N90 & Aquatica 90 housing came out (yes, I am that old). I have been really busy for 4 years birthing a Dive Rescue Team for our county - and if you know anything about the Public Safety Dive biz - you know I have not been out of my drysuit, seen viz greater...
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    Shore dives from Cooper Island?

    My wife and I are going to Cooper Island in May for a much needed de-pressurizing 7 days. We're both really into the pace and mood of shore dives. Any suggestions? Air rental sources? Local small boat rentals for sites a little to far to swim? TIA Greg
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