Everything posted by TimG
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If you'd like to see more about Boot 2025, there's now a video. You'll see a separate embedded video for the scuba part of the show. It lasts 2.20 seconds but I'm not sure it'll tell you much.... https://www.boot.com/en/Media_News/boot_Media/Videos_boot_2025?utm_source=boot25 besucher&utm_medium=email&utm_content=video&utm_campaign=vi en#impressionen -
As Chris writes, it's much simpler to have two strobes the same. Unless there is an overwhelming reason to use one strobe in particular, I'd also recommend going with two the same. Much easier for muscle memory changes to the settings, less faffing about, not yet another set of batteries/o-rings/spares to deal with; and as Chris so rightly says, less Murphy's Law of having the wrong strobe on the wrong side at the wrong time.
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The annual German "Boot" show took place on 18-26 January. I visited on 25 January to see what might be new in the dive and underwater photography world and met up with other Waterpixelers. I was also tasked with tracking down the new unicorn of the underwater photography world, the Inon Z-xxx Boot is a massive show spread over 13 exhibition halls. It wouldn't be hard to spend a few million euros there - assuming you had them in the first place. Diving was maybe one and a half a halls with displays of wetsuits (lots of weird camouflage suits - what is that all about?) and posters showing muscled combat scuba divers, fast-roping from helicopters carrying waterproofed weapons. I'm yet to see one of one of my dive trips but who knows. Quite a few rebreather stands around as well plus the usual suspects, Scubapro, Cressi, SSI, PADI. Lots of resorts: Raja Ampat, Lembeh, Egypt etc etc. And, as always, a few sellers of the critical doo-dads that we all need: clips, hooks, fancy tags etc etc. Slightly disappointingly there wasn't so much to see from an u/w photo perspective: Nauticam, Seacam, Easydive and Divevolk either had a small stand or shared one with a distributor but that was pretty much it. Nauticam had their housing for the Nikon Z6III which, I thought , surprisingly big for such a small camera body. But, no, sorry, not a sniff of an Inon Z-xxx. It was very good though to meet up with three other members, Maria, Hans and Chris. One thing I did notice which might be of interest was the growing number of dive propulsion vehicles (DPVs) including some very cool tiny ones. I'm off to the Dutch dive show next Saturday and will report back from there too. -
Hi Alicia Great to have you with us. A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Great news on your mum. A celebration indeed.
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Doh! Ok, those are now removed. No worries. I look forward to that beer! Best wishes, Miguel.
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Miguel, I’ve deleted the images.
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Good question. Happily I've never actually had to deal with the issue but understand entirely where you are coming from. The solution I developed for myself was to use two carabiners with detachable connectors (see photo). I clip a carabiner onto a D-ring on either side of the shoulder straps of my BCD; and the round snorkel retainers are fastened onto my strobe arms. If I need to free my hands, clipping the connectors together leaves my system (a D500 with Retra strobes) hanging from my BCD and reasonably manageable.
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With Monnehpenneh, of course.
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🤣 No sweat, Marcin. I spent a whole career doing pretty much that.
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Hey Byron! Great to have you with us! Welcome to Waterpixels. Iceland eh? Hmmm, that sounds like it'd make for an interesting feature article. Fancy a go?
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I've got the Nikon Z6II and the Nikkor 8-15. It works very well with the FTZ. No problems. Add the Kenko 1.4 and make sure you get the right version. I've got two DG and DGX Nikon Z6III + FTZ + Nikkor 8-15mm + "N-AF 1.4X TELEPLUS PRO 300 DGX Kenko" will not focus or find an aperture Nikon Z6III + FTZ + Nikkor 8-15mm + "1.4 TELEPLUS PRO 300 KENKO N-AF DG" works fine, will AF and finds the aperture
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It does work well though!
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David. I'm pretty sure the Nikkor 10.5 DX lens has the same problem as the Tokina: it won't work on the FTZ.
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Hi Jin! Welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us and we hope you enjoy the forum. Best wishes
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Hey Geir! A humble guy from Norway, fabulous! Welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us.
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Hey Tim Great to have you with us. A warm welcome to Waterpixels.
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This is horrendous and raises so many questions about the operator.
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Great to have you with us, Ellen. I'm sure you'll recognise lots of familiar names. A warm welcome to your new home.
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Assuming there's something to photograph! 😄
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I’m going to Boot so will keep an eye out. I don’t recall seeing Inon though on the list of manufacturers attending.
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Great to have you with us, thejaguar. Welcome to Waterpixels. We hope you enjoy the forum.
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Interesting thought. Where did this come from?
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Yep, changing the shutter speed does indeed let you change the colour of the background water. The faster the speed, the less light gets to the sensor and the darker the background. The slower the shutter speed, the more light gets to the sensor and the lighter the background. So you can to a fair degree control the "blueness" of the background to suit the image you are trying to create. As Wolfgang sets out, using the LR Tint and Temp sliders changes the whole image WB unless yuu confine the adjustment to areas isolated through a Mask(s). Masks and WB can be tricky compared to using a Mask to, for example, remove a distracting element. But if its only the background and nothing which is a prime element of the subject is excluded, a Mask can do this quite well I find. I used to use diffusers with the Inon Z240 strobes. But now with the Retras, I just can't see any real difference with or without diffusers.
