@Nemrod my trigger seems to generally work correctly after first turning the camera on. The problems seemed to come after swimming for long enough without shooting that the camera would go to sleep. I was able to reproduce bad behavior at home by turning it all on and then letting it sit for 5 or 10 minutes. Part of my "testing" was also to start shooting to wake the camera up from power save mode. I.e. hit the back button AF and pull the shutter release trigger and just hold it until the camera wakes up and starts firing. That would often produce incorrect trigger behavior.
I am hoping the new trigger fixes all that. I have changed my camera settings so it shouldn't go to sleep on me, but if it does and I start shooting, I want it to work right!
Unfortunately, I got my new rig so close before my trip to Utila that I did not have a chance to test it. Such is life...
I did try some shooting in TTL mode. When the strobes were working, I thought the results were pretty darn good exposures. I am looking forward to spending some more time playing with that. If I can put the camera in Manual mode, with AutoISO and use TTL to control the strobes, I think that could really step up my game.
That is assuming that my setting on the camera that has it do spot metering, where the metered spot follows the AF spot, works as intended.
On my Olympus, I started with the cheap wet dome from Meikon. I got decent pictures. A year or so(?) ago I got the WWL-1 to replace the Meikon dome (thanks again for the advice,
@tursiops!). That made a very noticeable improvement in the image quality I was getting. Very noticeable. And the WWL-1 was nice, on my Olympus, because it supported my ability to zoom that lens from 14 - 42mm (28 - 84mm FF equivalent). So, I could shoot wide angle and shoot some small things all on the same dive just by zooming the camera lens in or out.
On the Sony, the only lens that works with the WWL-1 is the 28mm f/2 prime. So, I can only shoot wide angle. The quality is good. But, I am already missing the ability to zoom in and out. So, the Nauticam WACP is on my shopping list. That will work with the Sony 28-70 lens. That will give me better image quality AND restore my ability to zoom in and out. The only problem is the WACP is $4500...
And that reminds me. I need to email Reef and find out if there is any possibility that one of the newer non-Sony zoom lens could work with the WWL-1. Like the Sigma or Tamron 24-70. That would be WAY cheaper than having to buy the WACP just to be able to zoom in and out. Not AS good image quality, but would still be pretty darn good, if it works.