sp-350

[Larry C]

Some of those came out very nice, especially a few of the turtles and eels, and the zebra striped fish later on. You might try using photoshop or another editing program to filter out some of the blues and give you more vibrant natural color on some of the wider shots. There's a whole forum on post-editing with lots of good tips and advice.

 

[bfisher]

OK Larry, so where do I go to get Photoshop?

And I might have had better color if I had the strobe set right. I think it was too sensitive and going of with my preflash.

 

[Sir Lancillotto]

Marco,

Sounds like you are paying too much for digital equipment. I just bought a SP-350 (my second one, just in case I flood one) for $241. US, shipping included from Buy.com I just mailed in the $50. Rebate dropping the cost to $191. US. The Rebate ended June 30th.
Good luck with your UW pictures. Don

Unfortunately this is the italian price for all electronic equipment....
The normal price for SP-350 is 350€ ($440) ((((( i buy in special offert, for the Italy is very inexpensive price!!!

You are lucky for not live in Italy!

I take the camera (and housing) only 2 hours ago.

Thank you Don!

 

[Sir Lancillotto]

This is a my underwater photo with older 35mm camera (Sealife Reefmaster) with internal flash.

I hope to improve with new camera.

http://www17.brinkster.com/sirlancillotto/gallery_detail.aspx?gallery=UnderWater

 

[Larry C]

OK Larry, so where do I go to get Photoshop?

The cheapest way in is PS Elements 4, which I saw recently at Costco for $39.95 after rebate (It runs $79.95 normally, I think). Everyone who does software sells it, and it has most all of the important basic photo shop features. These programs allow you to adjust color balance using slider bars, and you can separately adjust the scale for shadow, highlight and mid-light levels. You can also easily adjust contrast, brightness and saturation. Another way to do this is to shoot in RAW and get Rawshooter essentials, which is a free downloadable program with many of the same features, plus a white balance adjustment. Shooting RAW unfortunately removes the option of the UW presets, so you have to manually adjust your camera. I'd suggest practicing for a while with adjustments before you do this. The other issue with RAW is you'll get about 81 pics per gig, compared with about 500 in jpeg.

 

[LindaBluedolphin]

Nice show Barry, and some good first attempts.....

 

[bfisher]

Hey Larry. Have you seen Magic Filter yet? This might be worh a look IMO.

 

[Larry C]

If you're diving tropical, at less than 40fsw and you are shooting in available light, they can work miracles. They filter out the blue and give you more natural color. Check out the examples on the website.

 

[AndyT]

According to Alex Mustard they are working on a green water version too !!!! Can't wait .

 

[shark.byte.usa]

Well I went diving last night with the intention of trying out the video capabilites with the camera; which I kept forgetting to try out previously. So I drop down to about 20' and look for leaks, looks good, I proceed to my intended depth 30-35'. Turn the camera on and it's already set on video. I set the WB and I can't see anything through the LCD it's on but black, so I fiddle some more with the settings and WB, still nothing, after about 5 minutes I realized I never took of the frickin lens cap :11doh:

So once I have picutre, I push the shutter button to start recording and it's fine for about 5 seconds and then the camera just freaks out; LCD turns off, the amber light by the viewfinder is blinking, it won't let me do anything, it's totally locked up. I'm trying to power it off, nothings working...Finally it shuts off, I don't know if was me or it shut off by itself.

So I turn it back on and I get a message about the xD card, I choose to format, I think my only other option was to turn off or something. I had meant to format the card prior to the dive, it had pictures on it, but forgot. So it does it's formatting card/busy screen and then the LCD says xD Card Error. I try one more time, turning off and formatting but to no avail. So I have a nice hour dive with no pictures or video, but am worried something is wrong with my new baby.

So after another night dive without the camera and getting home very late, I pop out the xD card and put it in my USB card reader, I turn on the camera and erase the pictures from internal memory, the camera seems to be working fine at this point. I erase the xD card from my PC and put it in the camera and format it, all works and seems OK now.

I think what happened was my internal memory was full and the xD card had a corrupt file on it so the camera was having a hard time accessing and formatting the thing, and with no available memory it wasn't happy.

I'll be getting it wet again tomorrow and give the video another shot.

Garrett