Canon G9 Dilemna

[Rescue Diver68]

Wow, great price on the housing. Good luck with it all. We are still waiting for pics.

 

[xariatay]

After every trip, I would remove the o-ring, clean it, grease it & store it in a zip-lock bag... Good luck with your Ikelite housing!

 

[Hotpuppy]

Wow, great price on the housing. Good luck with it all. We are still waiting for pics.

I snagged the Wide Angle adapter for $54 as well. Missed a W-20 which is another reason to go Ikelite.

Picked up a replacement G-9 today for $259 (Ebay) so that solves that......

I still want to get a Wide Angle lens as I think it will help with better images.

I will post the pics once I'm done with post-production. Right now I'm working through a Lynda.com course on Lightroom so I can use it without cussing. I picked up a shrinkwrapped copy of Lightroom 3 for $199 on Ebay as well. Beware on ebay there appears to be alot of counterfeit software out there..... One guy was selling it for $70 but he had 88 auctions with the same thing.... He said he had bought 5 copies, didn't need them. Even had a fake receipt to go with it. Too bad for him the receipt had an address that Google Earth says belongs to a Steel Company, not a computer store.

I highly recommend Lynda.com for Software training.

Anyhow, when I'm done I'll post them. In the meanwhile, I have one day of pictures up, but they need reworking with noise-ninja to deal with ISO-gremlins.

Here are 50 pictures from Day 5. They have been color corrected and cropped, but are not "done". They need noise-removal and tweaking.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=275948

I've decided to hunt down a EOS 30D as well so I can play with a dSLR. I realized when I looked at a 50D that I don't know how to really use one and that I need good lenses to go with it. So, I'm going to get an older body and start acquiring lenses while I learn to use it. Then when I'm ready I can make the leap to a newer body and take it diving. For now, my G9 has alot it can help me learn about dive photography.

There are real and subtle differences between what a G series and D series can do. You have to blow up the prints or pixel peep to really notice the details. Anyhow, I should have my Ikelite gear together in the next few weeks.

Once it gets here I'm sending it off to Ikelite for service. That will help me start from a known-working state. Then I will take it to the local lake for some less exciting and less expensive diving. Sure it's not coral, but it's underwater and I can still work on getting good pictures of boring things.