OK, I still need to learn a lot switching over to dSLR but it is not as bad as I thought.
The biggest change I suppose is now that the housing is pretty much glued to my mask so I can see the viewfinder. Gone is the luxury day of having the camera at arm length away. The viewfinder is not as difficult to use as I was anticipated and it is nice to be able to see if the picture is in focus much more accurately than with LCD screen.
However, having to have the viewfinder right up to the mask, I miss a few things
1) I can't see the composition, check strobe placement and see the result without having to move one bit as I do with the C5050 at arm lenght away.
2) I get tunnel vision and are more prone to my mean dive buddies' practical joke such as putting their hands in front of my lens and I could not figure out why suddenly I could not focus anything!
3) I can't put the camera right down to the sandy bottom and still compose nor get the camera into some weird inaccessible angle.
But there are also some benefit, I used the 70-180 lens and it allowed me to get better close up from a distance of shy fish easier. Autofocus is much faster. Easier to deal with autofocus lock. I will try to go diving some more at the end of the month and hopefully I wil get some better shots.
The biggest change I suppose is now that the housing is pretty much glued to my mask so I can see the viewfinder. Gone is the luxury day of having the camera at arm length away. The viewfinder is not as difficult to use as I was anticipated and it is nice to be able to see if the picture is in focus much more accurately than with LCD screen.
However, having to have the viewfinder right up to the mask, I miss a few things
1) I can't see the composition, check strobe placement and see the result without having to move one bit as I do with the C5050 at arm lenght away.
2) I get tunnel vision and are more prone to my mean dive buddies' practical joke such as putting their hands in front of my lens and I could not figure out why suddenly I could not focus anything!
3) I can't put the camera right down to the sandy bottom and still compose nor get the camera into some weird inaccessible angle.
But there are also some benefit, I used the 70-180 lens and it allowed me to get better close up from a distance of shy fish easier. Autofocus is much faster. Easier to deal with autofocus lock. I will try to go diving some more at the end of the month and hopefully I wil get some better shots.