NW_DiverDude
Contributor
I have been using the A75 with the Canon housing and I am very, very pleased. The A95 obviously gives you better resolution and more features so you can't go wrong.
The Canon housing allows you to use the camera just as if you were on land and not using the housing. Every button and selection choice is available.
Switching between stills and video is a snap just as switching between camera mode and review mode.
The "Underwater" scene mode definitely helps reduce backscatter but do not expect it to completely eliminate it.
As far as stobes go - if you have plenty of money to spend and want the best lighting possible the a dual strobe is the way to go IMHO. However, clarity of the water and subject matter can really dictate the need. If primarily shooting images in the distance in 100' visability then natural lighting is quite good.
Feel free to view some of the images in my SB gallery and you can see that natural lighting was good enough for many of the photos I took in various places around the Caribbean in 2004 while similar style images shot in Hawaii recently have far less color (blue hue saturation). The big difference, Cozumel the vis was 200' plus in some photos while in Hawaii the vis was sometimes less than 40'. Had I used a strobe in Hawaii some of the foreground subjects would have been far more colorful but the background (shipwrecks, plane wreck, distant reefs) would remain the same.
Here is a reef shot in Cozumel for instance with no flash whatsoever:
http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/48302/cat/500/ppuser/35608
Here is a shot in Hawaii at a similar depth and distance to the subject matter:
http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/48308/cat/500/ppuser/35608
Even a single strobe would have helped provide better color of the turtles but the field of view beyond the turtles would have remained the same.
Hope this helps. Regardless of one's choice of camera and housing, the key is getting underwater and capturing images of what you experience - at least that is what it is all about for me...
The Canon housing allows you to use the camera just as if you were on land and not using the housing. Every button and selection choice is available.
Switching between stills and video is a snap just as switching between camera mode and review mode.
The "Underwater" scene mode definitely helps reduce backscatter but do not expect it to completely eliminate it.
As far as stobes go - if you have plenty of money to spend and want the best lighting possible the a dual strobe is the way to go IMHO. However, clarity of the water and subject matter can really dictate the need. If primarily shooting images in the distance in 100' visability then natural lighting is quite good.
Feel free to view some of the images in my SB gallery and you can see that natural lighting was good enough for many of the photos I took in various places around the Caribbean in 2004 while similar style images shot in Hawaii recently have far less color (blue hue saturation). The big difference, Cozumel the vis was 200' plus in some photos while in Hawaii the vis was sometimes less than 40'. Had I used a strobe in Hawaii some of the foreground subjects would have been far more colorful but the background (shipwrecks, plane wreck, distant reefs) would remain the same.
Here is a reef shot in Cozumel for instance with no flash whatsoever:
http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/48302/cat/500/ppuser/35608
Here is a shot in Hawaii at a similar depth and distance to the subject matter:
http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/48308/cat/500/ppuser/35608
Even a single strobe would have helped provide better color of the turtles but the field of view beyond the turtles would have remained the same.
Hope this helps. Regardless of one's choice of camera and housing, the key is getting underwater and capturing images of what you experience - at least that is what it is all about for me...
