iflyprops
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Hey everyone,
Just got back from a week in Key Largo where I put 10 dives on my new ikelite/canon SLR setup.
I started off taking a photo course with Larry Gates ( www.larrygates.com ), and is he good, a really nice guy as well. We first dove the Christ of the Abyss statue...so I got my "jesus" statue picture to add to my new and growing collection.
And for the Camera:
It is a housed Canon Elan 7 (with a 20mm lens) in an Ikelite housing with an Ikelite Substrobe 200. In the water the camera is very slightly negatively bouyant, near perfect out of the box. The controls are pretty easy to use with the exception of the knob that turns on the camera and selects auto/manual/etc. but that is mainly due to the lock on the camera. I got used to this in about two dives. The knobs, at depth, feel like they are on bungees that wan't to pull them inward (which makes sense) which was a little weird and made me hope that the knobs were tightened very securely. Also the shutter release is very very sensitive, but you get used to it in a very short while.
I am a first time underwater photographer and was floored with the quality of the images I was producing (or was it the camera
?) after a few rolls of film. The first thing I need to work on is not overpowering with the strobe, I washed out a few GREAT shots...maybe I can fix them up with photoshop a little as they aren't that far gone. Anyway, great camera great housing great strobe etc etc etc. :07: By the way I was shooting mostly Fuji Velvia 100F slide film. (anyone know what the "f" stands for?)
And now the troubling news:
First--I was lucky and no damage was done, but I did get some water in the housing on my tenth dive. I noticed it as I was ascending from the dive when there was a small drop of water on the selector knob on the camera and I noticed some other drops on the body of the camera. Larry Gates was coincidentally on board doing some ow referalls and helped me try and figure out where it was comming from. We think it was from the corner of the main o-ring...a fluke maybe? All of the o-rings are brand spankin' new and have been cleaned and lubed prior to each days diving, and I lubed the control arms mid-week. So it's time for some housing only pool observations to see what is going on...any ideas? I, however, was extrememly lucky and at the same time am very very happy with my camera, housing, and strobe combination...
It will be about a week or so before I can get some of my images digitized, can't wait to share 'em!!!
Thanks!
Just got back from a week in Key Largo where I put 10 dives on my new ikelite/canon SLR setup.
I started off taking a photo course with Larry Gates ( www.larrygates.com ), and is he good, a really nice guy as well. We first dove the Christ of the Abyss statue...so I got my "jesus" statue picture to add to my new and growing collection.
And for the Camera:
It is a housed Canon Elan 7 (with a 20mm lens) in an Ikelite housing with an Ikelite Substrobe 200. In the water the camera is very slightly negatively bouyant, near perfect out of the box. The controls are pretty easy to use with the exception of the knob that turns on the camera and selects auto/manual/etc. but that is mainly due to the lock on the camera. I got used to this in about two dives. The knobs, at depth, feel like they are on bungees that wan't to pull them inward (which makes sense) which was a little weird and made me hope that the knobs were tightened very securely. Also the shutter release is very very sensitive, but you get used to it in a very short while.
I am a first time underwater photographer and was floored with the quality of the images I was producing (or was it the camera
?) after a few rolls of film. The first thing I need to work on is not overpowering with the strobe, I washed out a few GREAT shots...maybe I can fix them up with photoshop a little as they aren't that far gone. Anyway, great camera great housing great strobe etc etc etc. :07: By the way I was shooting mostly Fuji Velvia 100F slide film. (anyone know what the "f" stands for?)And now the troubling news:
First--I was lucky and no damage was done, but I did get some water in the housing on my tenth dive. I noticed it as I was ascending from the dive when there was a small drop of water on the selector knob on the camera and I noticed some other drops on the body of the camera. Larry Gates was coincidentally on board doing some ow referalls and helped me try and figure out where it was comming from. We think it was from the corner of the main o-ring...a fluke maybe? All of the o-rings are brand spankin' new and have been cleaned and lubed prior to each days diving, and I lubed the control arms mid-week. So it's time for some housing only pool observations to see what is going on...any ideas? I, however, was extrememly lucky and at the same time am very very happy with my camera, housing, and strobe combination...
It will be about a week or so before I can get some of my images digitized, can't wait to share 'em!!!
Thanks!
