Rune Edvin Haldorsen

Last Friday, there were loads of zooplankton near home, so I tried 100 mm and +10 diopter for filming. It is a bit difficult , but it is the first time I have documented a dead mans finger (soft coral) trying to catch something.

It's a really cool film showing lots of behaviour where the changign point of view helps telling the story.

Looks really cool. Nice exposure and just soft enough use of strobes.

Thanks. The film was a good inspiration dfor making a local gobie-film :)

The plan was originally to take pictures of a wolf eel, normally living under a rock in the area, but it seems like it has taken a winter holiday in a local aquarium. The local aquarium keep some of the wolf eel inside for breeding and release them again later. They do the same with the small spotted cat shark, which as been quite successful in increasing the number of local sharks.

Even if you won't recommend the diving operator, I thhink you've made a good recommendation for the area :) .. Nise shots with lovely compositions.

The TG6 is a good place to start. It looks liek you've made some photos before bringing your camera into the sea. The compositions work well and you seems to be controlling the highlights well. Congrats with a good start.

It was a quite hughe lift in the technical quality from the camera you used a few weeks ago. Next time we'll struggle together with 100 mm macro and manual focus.

It's a bit slower than the MK iii, but the largest difference is up to MK IV, so my conclution while using my MK II was that it wasn't worth the money to change before the next camera model. Good focus light and high quality lenses will give you more than a slightly upgraded autofocus. If you use it, the auto color ballance seems (in my oppenion) better in MK II than in the following models. By the way: The reason why noone sell the MK III underwater housing is becauce you use the same housing for MK IV, so If you want to upgrade for a MK IV, it will be wise to buy a MK III kit. .

Sometimes, I still use an old 5D MI II and 7D (even if I hav a 5D MK IV), and they are still making really good photos compared with the newet cameras. You will lack a bit on the color depth on higher iso and the quality when filming is a bit lower and the autofocus is a bit slower, but the digfference is not enough to be significant for a non commersial user. I'd say 5D MI III is still good enough for all underwater photography.

Beautiful scenes and light.

Thanks. I used manual focus. I wouldn't manage to do this one with AF.

I was allowed to try a z-cam in nauticam housing with a 100 mm macro at an underwater video workshop today. I kept it simple and it was quite fun.