Sea & Sea II EX

[Tekkie]

About how far will this camera set you back?
Tekkie

 

[ScubaRon]

The Sea & Sea MotorMarine is one of the very best UW camera's and I have used them for 10 years now. Lens and picture quality are superb and if you know what you're doing you can make professional quality and award winning pictures.

The camera is well built, nicely compact and easy to maintain. The ability to exchange lenses UW is fabulous: you can go from shooting a nudibranch to a shark in about 15 seconds. Sea & Sea has great strobes too.

The only drawback is that the camera is very manual: the focus distance, strobe angle and F-stop all need to be set correctly for a good quality picture. The new MotorMarine III is much more automated and IMO opinion pretty much the ultimate UW camera.
ScubaRon

 

[ScubaRon]

James connell once bubbled...
however you do need to make the correction for manual strobe exposure! if it looks like 3 ft, it is 4ft for the light path.

That's why you want to get a TTL strobe: it does it automatically and on the Sea & Sea it works really well!
ScubaRon

 

[SubMariner]

That's why you want to get a TTL strobe: it does it automatically and on the Sea & Sea it works really well!

With the double setup we have the big strobe (YS300) TTL'd to the camera and the small strobe (YS90) slaved to the big one. Otherwise, it's just the big one that is hooked in TTL.

Works great.