Kevin Beaulieu

I bet something like gorilla glue construction adhesive would hold it together. Shoe goo may as well.

Thanks for the response. UWCameraStore also explicitly states that it works with "Sony TTL (HSS)" and maybe more importantly the backscatter HF-1 which uses the same protocol as the atom and MF-3.. So I'm inclined to believe it does in fact work without the added trigger. Frustrating that backscatter support wasn't more helpful and specific in answering the question. They probably spent more time emailing me an unsolicited sales invoice for something I was always going to buy from the web store, than they did researching the issue.

Hello, I'm upgrading my system and trying to get to the bottom of flash triggers. I will be pairing an AOI UH-A7CII housing with Backscatter Atom flashes. The atom listing says they accept Sony TTL signals, and the AOI housing manual under "Flash control" directly states "Sony TTL (Auto HHS)." So I asked AI if I needed the backscatter trigger for TTL, and it said yes. Then I asked Backscatter, and they said no. Then I asked Backscatter if the AI was wrong and they said actually no, their mistake, I would in fact need the Backscatter trigger. I'm just trying to understand why the housing would state Sony TTL is supported, and the flash would say it supports Sony TTL, but those two things wouldn't be able to talk to each other. Maybe it's a case of no good information existing publicly for some newer products, but I'd love to be able to save $500 and the added bulk of the BS trigger if it's not needed. Does anyone have a similar system that can confirm one way or the other?

Thanks for all the input, I really appreciate it! Being new to editing I'm mostly lost on the initial color wheel stuff. I'll automate that in Pixelmator pro, then automate the individual saturation/brightness and adjust those sliders to try and make something that doesn't leave the subject too washed or blown out. Mostly I'm guessing on how colors actually expose. My project file corrupted but here's an example of how the color automation was set early in the edit.

New to editing and open to all criticism!

Any idea what the purple fish are/will be, or the translucent shrimp?

Greetings, I'm primarily here to use the classifieds to try and offload some gear I'm upgrading from, but as I start to take this hobby more seriously I realize this is also probably a great resource for overcoming some of my current challenges! My wife and I started diving about two and half years ago and have made a number of dive centric trips since (Curaçao, Roatan, Cozumel, Belize, West Palm). Our next big trip is a north route live aboard in the Red Sea. I got started with photography after our first big trip to curaçao. I brought a DJI Osmo 4 with no expectations and no real knowledge and realized a few things: I'm never going to watch videos but I will definitely hang photos on my walls, and this shit is hard and I'll need some proper equipment for wall-worthy photos. I got an e-m10 mk iv with a couple compact AOI strobes and a wide angle wet lens and have been at it for our past three vacations. There's definitely times where I think "not much new and interesting to shoot today, maybe I'd just be happier leaving the camera and focusing on diving..." and then random magic happens. I know very little about photography but I have tried to learn some basics about exposure and framing, and I generally try to trust my instincts and take advantage of the opportunities I have. I think this is primarily a numbers game where you take as many photos as you possibly can, and if you're lucky maybe 1-2% of them will be worth sharing. My biggest struggle right now as I move on from an auto editing app into real photo editing software is with color correction and masking. Hopefully I can learn some of that through the resources here. Thanks for having me, Kevin