ScubaSteve772
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I have seen several posts in the past asking about this camera and one member that posted some images about a month ago. Here are a few shots from my first outing with this camera in French Polynesia. I have never done UW photography, but have enjoyed traditional photography for years. These images are un-edited aside from resizing for viewing so that you can get a feel for how this camera shoots.
No strobe used, and no external flash on shots posted. Shooting mode set to "Sea" and preset white balance options utilized (>25 feet and <25 feet).
Buzzed by Mother and Calf at Tiputa pass in Rangiroa; Amazing experience. No zoom on this shoot, they made several close passes to check us out.
~52 eagle rays shot from above in Bora Bora. We were around 25 meters, they were another 15ish below us.
The B&W shots from this camera were some of my favorites, but I've always been a sucker for B&W.
For what this camera is, I am very pleased. It fit easily into my BC pocket and took adequate pictures for a point and shoot (some issues with colors and auto focus, but in the range of what I expected for a $300 camera). Over water pictures turned out pretty good also. It was nice to be able to take shots from the dive boat and not worry about my good camera gear getting beat up. I will be getting geared up in the future with a better setup, but this camera will work great until then and will most likely come with me on any dive/trip that I don't want to haul the "big" setup on.
No strobe used, and no external flash on shots posted. Shooting mode set to "Sea" and preset white balance options utilized (>25 feet and <25 feet).
Buzzed by Mother and Calf at Tiputa pass in Rangiroa; Amazing experience. No zoom on this shoot, they made several close passes to check us out.
~52 eagle rays shot from above in Bora Bora. We were around 25 meters, they were another 15ish below us.
The B&W shots from this camera were some of my favorites, but I've always been a sucker for B&W.
For what this camera is, I am very pleased. It fit easily into my BC pocket and took adequate pictures for a point and shoot (some issues with colors and auto focus, but in the range of what I expected for a $300 camera). Over water pictures turned out pretty good also. It was nice to be able to take shots from the dive boat and not worry about my good camera gear getting beat up. I will be getting geared up in the future with a better setup, but this camera will work great until then and will most likely come with me on any dive/trip that I don't want to haul the "big" setup on.
