A while back I bought some stuff which included a Pixtreme camera with housing. I took it on a night dive and took some pictures of lobsters, fish, etc. The majority of the pictures were a white washout with just the outlines of the different animals visible. Of course I used the flash. So tell me what happened and what to do to rectify this. I used the camera to take some pictures above water on the boat and they came out very nice considering the cheap camera. Thanks in advance.
Pixtreme washout
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WetBoy101
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A little more info, please. Obviously too much flash. You can use a diffuser for an internal flash. It doesn't sound like you are using a strobe, but??
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Are you able to adjust your camera's settings at all? at first thought I would recomend setting the ISO to something lower with that much washout. Try ISO 100 or 64. Also a lot of cameras have an exposure compensation adjustment, you would adjust the EC to the - side. Lastly if possible the F stop should be reduced.
Underwater cameras don't perform the same as topside due to waters light absorption characteristics your camera will adjust its settings based on how much light is reaching the sensor then you hit it with flash and overwhelm the automatic settings. This is why it is recommended that manual adjustments are used underwater.
Underwater cameras don't perform the same as topside due to waters light absorption characteristics your camera will adjust its settings based on how much light is reaching the sensor then you hit it with flash and overwhelm the automatic settings. This is why it is recommended that manual adjustments are used underwater.
WetBoy101
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The other question is, since it was a night dive, what are you doing for focus light. Are you using something that is sync'd to turn off as your flash fires or just keeping a dive light on the subject as you take the picture?
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