Show us your Sealife weekend diving pics!

[merxlin]

OUTSTANDING Mike.

I most especially love the Frog Fish, in particular the one with the mast in the background. You should send that one into Sealife for their photo of the month competition!

Thank you. Believe it or not, that was the 2nd pic I took with the camera, and it was set wrong for the strobes, so the 100ft viz helped a lot! Many of those were taken during a night dive using a focus light. I was very happy with most of the results and the camera's ability to focus in low light. The biggest thing I have to get used to is not having to be so close to the subjects.

Look for my Olympus set up in the photo classifieds!

 

[sabbath999]

I have to give it credit, it CAN focus in low light really well... I was shooting macro (since the viz where I was shooting was 5-10 feet I had to get REALLY close) and just filling the frame with the fish... the light was pretty dim (15 feet down in a quarry not in direct sunlight, with lots of particles between me and the surface) and yet the focus was snappy and accurate, and the lag was short enough that I only cut off one fish the whole dive... that's pretty good.

I like it!

I am going to be doing some night dives this weekend, using a focus light (or so I hope )

How did you mount your focus light?

 

[merxlin]

I am going to be doing some night dives this weekend, using a focus light (or so I hope )

How did you mount your focus light?

I used the hotshoe mount I had for my Oly- and a FantaSea Nano. The only thing I don't like is that the mount is a little loose (like the "hotshoe" opening is a bit wide), so I am going to cut down a thin SS washer to take up the slack.

 

[sabbath999]

 

[sabbath999]

Here are a couple (one posted in another post, but I thought it would be more likely to be seen here):

 

[merxlin]

Here are a couple (one posted in another post, but I thought it would be more likely to be seen here):

Nice pix. I noticed yours seem sharper than mine, which means I probably need to watch the focus and movement. What settings did you use (auto vs manual)?

 

[sabbath999]

Nice pix. I noticed yours seem sharper than mine, which means I probably need to watch the focus and movement. What settings did you use (auto vs manual)?

Can you email me a copy of one at sabbath999 @ mac dot com ? An original unedited file? I need to read the EXIF data to see how you are doing yours so I can compare them to mine. I would prefer the one with the frog fish on the hull of the ship, since there is a bit of blur on it...

 

[sabbath999]

Another fresh water fish from the Dive Stop quarry in New Melle last Friday.

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

I used the hotshoe mount I had for my Oly- and a FantaSea Nano. The only thing I don't like is that the mount is a little loose (like the "hotshoe" opening is a bit wide), so I am going to cut down a thin SS washer to take up the slack.

Very nice pictures from the previous posts... Really like the White Frogfish....
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I was looking through optical ocean's site this weekend (opticaloceansales.com) and one of the things they had on their hotshoe was that it would be loose on SeaLife cameras (not recommended for SeaLife cameras) because thier (SeaLife's) shoe is rubber instead of a more solid item.

I was also thinking the hotshoe could be done with SS washers set correctly.

After scanning their site, I ordered the following to add to my "custom" base that I posted about (around here somewhere)

$139 (when the strobe goes off, it turns off for 3 seconds, uses 4 AA batteries)

Here is the adapter for my tray

Drill two holes and screw it together...

One set of clamp and ball arm...

and one of the clamps

It should allow a 3-D sphere of movement...

 

[sabbath999]

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