Mike Saunders

I have a salted line housing - I'm not sure if this is the same as a sea frogs aluminium or not its not bad. Its cheap relative to nauticam and it is quite small compared to my old ikelite 35mm nikon housing Controls are ok but a bit fiddly flooded twice. once a dodgy new macro port from the manufacturer that just leaked once when I was distracted by an alluring dive instructor and forgot to check that I had closed it properly I tend to buy quite cheap cameras to put in it (second hand 6x alphas) and I'm reasonably pleased with it Ideally I would like a full frame with a larger viewfinder but its not a deal breaker

good advice thank you. I'm not sure persuading her to get that close the the sharks will be straightforwards but including her as a model would probably be quite an attractive idea to her. Then of course some images will have to be deleted because I have got her wrong side or her eyes are closed 😊

that's helpful thanks. When we have friendly dive leaders they can sometimes be persuaded to take her along while I fanny about. Are there many of you on here who would solo dive so you can spend say 30 minutes in one spot getting the perfect photo? If in good vis with no current and say at 5-10m max this sounds reasonably safe although I realise that PADI et al would disagree

I'm a relative amateur at UW photography. I tend to holiday dive with my wife who isn't a photographer and we normally trundle along in the group and my photos tend to be rather rushed and very much in the 'drive by shooting' style. On a number of occasions I have tried to spend a few minutes positioning only to find myself detached from the rest of the group I have been looking with some awe at the photos on here. Would it be fair to say that most of you are able to just concentrate on taking photos on a dive? - and if so how do you manage this with buddies and the rest of the group - if you are with a group? My recent trip to the Similan islands was hilarious - as well as being with a group we had a lot of surge underwater so trying any from of macro was quite sporting Mike S

was in Similan Dec 2025 I didn't see any specific policing of this although the dive leader may have stopped me using my camera if he knew I had under 40 dives. there are rangers that go round in boats but I think they mostly check that people have paid for the park fee. The dive leader told me that other boats carrying Thai divers are very trigger happy in reporting other divers to the authorities for touching coral etc because they see it as 'their' coral and not tourists

Hi from the UK I'm an experienced warm water diver who loves photography of all sorts. Currently using Sony alpha 6000s in a salted line housing with two strobes. Not expert level but small and lighter for travel. lenses include the 16-50 kit lens , Sony 90mm macro, 35mm 1.8 Sony OSS and just ordered a viltrox 9mm f.28 to use in a dome port Next dive trips Tenerife in the Summer and then Komodo national park and Nusa Penida in the autumn in the interim I am investigating possible blue shark doves off Cornwall and seal dives off Lundy over the summer I wish I could spend more time underwater taking pictures but my trips tend to be holidays with my wife and she gets bored if I spend a whole dive concentrating on photographing one fish. As a result my photos tend to be of the 'drive by' shooting variety. The Sony macro is an amazing lens but doesn't lend itself to 'drive by' shoots. Just went to Similan islands in Thailand and there was a lot of surge and current which made macro really tricky.