Nov. 12, 2011 Deep Cove (Saanich Inlet) photos
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Very nice! Best vis I've ever seen at that site. Love the barge photos, gives a real sense of the size and features of the wreck. Too bad the strobe didn't work, bet there could have been some really nice critter pics too.
Cheers,
Craig.
Cheers,
Craig.
I'm astonished at how good the pictures are, wide-angle with natural light. Very cool!
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MarkH
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Visibility was only about 20-30 feet, which is about average from what I've seen in Deep Cove. The fisheye lens fakes better visibility. It was a dark, rainy day so it was also much darker than the pictures seem to show. The settings I used were f5.6, iso 1600, shutter speed 1/6 to 1/10 sec. which doesn't really seem reasonable for a 40-foot-deep dive. When the photos are blown up to their normal size, the're pretty grainy from that iso 1600.
naclydogg
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No soldering iron? Forgot your save a dive kit did you?
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MarkH
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I actually tried re-wiring it using a pocket knife and the wire from my dollar store cassette deck/MP3 player adapter (I'm not joking). Unfortunately, every time I tried to fire the strobe it melted the wire since it wasn't rated for the huge current that goes from the capacitor to the flash tube. I'm sure the locals were about to call in the anti-terrorism squad after seeing me huddled in my car with big flashing electrical arcs and puffs of smoke/ozone.
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