TimG

Hey Orestis If there are areas of your scientific diving which you think might be of interest to Waterpixels members, we'd love to see an article.......

Hi James! Welcome to Waterpixels. The UK continent is growing nicely and it's great to have you with us!

Hey BigJeff! Great to have you with us. I think we have a few Welsh folks on board. Welcome to Waterpixels. We hope you really enjoy the forum.

I just watched the video and had a look at the Backscatter website. Hey, for $49/£42, compared to what you usually pay for any sort of u/w accessory, it's worth a go!

How are you triggering the strobes? If you’re using fibre optics and a third party trigger, is it possible the trigger batteries need changing or charging?

Hi Orestis. Welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us. I’m sure you’ll get lots of help when you’re ready with your questions.

Just re-reading this thread and was struck by Barmaglot's comment on 22 January: I moved back from a full-frame D800 to the D500. In terms of image quality, can you really improve significantly on what the D500 can produce? What realistically does it lack? Yeah, maybe there have been improvements to AF but, really, does it make that much difference? And it terms of size of system, all the various, impressive, studies I have seen people pull together, the relative difference when you add on all the bits, bobs and dooh-dahds is minimal. Yeah, if money is no object and you fancy a new system, go for it! But in terms of the images you will create,, are you really going to do better than you can can with the D500? Like Chip, I love helping people spend their money on this stuff: it's a guilt-free pleasure. But on this occasion.... hmmmm... spend it on a trip to take images. Two or three trips possibly!

Although I haven't tried the muck stick variation, I did try using a tripod to place a snooted strobe off-housing. After several dives and attempts I concluded that having the strobe/snoot mounted on the left-hand of the housing and learning to manipulate just worked better. Phil outlines the issue of getting the stick into the substrate sufficiently deeply. It was a similar but opposite problem with the tripod: finding somewhere it could sit without damaging corals or disappearing into sand - but near enough to the subject. I found it just more trouble than it was worth.

Hi Adam! Welcome to Waterpixels. We hope you really enjoy the forum. Good to have you with us.

Hey Atanas! Great to have you with us. We hope you really like the forum. Welcome!

Super end result! Thanks.

Alex, could you tell me what you used to connect the EMWL to your Subal housing?

Welcome PsychoSgt! We hope you really enjoy the forum.

Have you got a pic or two you could post, RomiK, of that shoot?

But Alex could probably pull off great shots with a milk bottle for a lens……

Really interesting question, Ido. My experience has been that the more I photograph underwater, the less distance I travel. I could see a use for a scooter when shore diving and the ability to get to a site using less finning energy would be good. But the downside is yet more gear to lug especially if using a largish camera system. Entry could be tricky too - I'm thinking somewhere like Bonaire. For boat dives, scooters can be a nuisance on a small boat and, quite often, you don’t actually need to travel far - or anywhere! - from the mooring to find subjects. Maybe a bit different if you are photographing wide-angle scenic, but for macro or general reef photography, I suspect a scooter would be more of a nuisance than an asset. Great fun though for zooming around with just a GoPro!

….. 12 months of LR……

Great to have you with us, RomiK. A warm welcome to Waterpixels.

Hey Tom You should be ok now to post. Just let us know if there’s an issue.

Really good to have you with us, Alex. You’ll know lots of folks on this forum!

👍🏼👍🏼

Tremendous setup on this shot, Chris. Dive light at the rear? The diver balances the image out really well and produces a super piece of storytelling.

Hi steviep! Welcome to Waterpixels. It’s excellent to have you with us. We hope you really enjoy the forum.

Hi Stevie Yep, nice pic, well done! Suggestions for pictures like this tend to be counsels of perfection so… I might be tempted to lighten the shadows a little in the bottom right hand corner to help set the manta slightly more clearly in it’s environment. Then, and this is a major Counsel of Perfection, a diver in the background to help with the story telling. In that case the manta would need to be slightly more off-centre, say to the left, with the diver behind it, say to the right, balancing out the image. Yeah, in your dreams, right? It’s a memorable shot capturing a memorable moment. Nice!

I think your 60% discount on older models is very realistic, Chip. Maybe even 70% 🤢