Everything posted by TimG
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Me too. With or without the booster. I've got about 16 which are 3 years old and 16 at 4 years old. I just bought 16 new Eneloop Pros as I thought it about time...... and I'll retire the 4 year olds to light duties. I've puzzled though, Landvogt, why you don't want to go with the Boosters and just use 8 batteries at a time. They do make a significant difference both its terms of the number of flashes you get plus the psychological effect of knowing you can easily do several dives without a change. My favourite thing about them is how little extra length they add to the strobe. It's insignificant. And they are relatively inexpensive compared to the cost of an u/w system. I travel with a total of 32x AA batteries and 2x 4xAA battery chargers and on liveaboard trips and have never have a problem keeping a complete battery change available for each strobe. -
I’m an Inon dive light fan too having switched from a Sola. Mine is relatively pocket sized, uses 3x AA batteries and has a bracket to mount on the housing as a focus light. The size and ease of charging makes it an excellent backup dive light.
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Great to have you with us, Marc. A warm welcome to Waterpixels. We hope you really enjoy the forum. Best wishes
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Chris is spot on. Shooting in water adds all sorts of complications which impact on the overall impression created. Whilst non (?few) of us want to create the image in post-production, it does have a critical element especially, I'd argue, in wide-angle shots where increases in things like Clarity, Dehaze and Vibrance can have a huge impact on the crispness, punch and wow-factor. MP is not the issue. As I wrote earlier, for many years I used a 24MP D300 and sold A3 printed images that were really sharp and could, I'm sure, have gone to A2. You need a good RAW file for sure but also good post-processing. As Chris suggests, and you may already be doing, shoot RAW, make adjustments to create the style of image you like, re-size to whatever you need for output - then take a look at the critical sharpness issues.
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Not a problem. No worries.
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Guys, we are starting to approach the amber line in terms of the tone of recent posts. Let’s not get too personal please.
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Subject matter aside, what size prints are you trying to achieve? A 24MP camera should be able to produce a good A3 print without too much difficulty. I used to do this regularly with a Nikon D300. If you’re not using strobes at all, it’s almost inevitable that images could look flat and lifeless. I’d argue it’s impossible to light a reef scene but by lighting a small, featured element of the reef, you can create, vibrancy and image depth.
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Hi Edy! You made it finally! Good to have you with us. We hope you really enjoy this now relatively new forum. Best wishes.
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It’s the EVF review facility which I find really appealing in switching to mirrorless. Terrific not to have to switch between the viewfinder and the screen to review.
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Yay! Good Man!!! Thanks.
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Hey Martin Like Dave, I like Stix floats. They seem indestructible, a reasonable price, easy to change on the arms - and not too heavy. On arm lengths, I go with 1 x 20cms plus 1 x 13cms for each of my two strobes. I have tried 26cm arms too with a 13cm but found these a bit floppy and hard to lockdown. I've always found the 20+13 combination good for macro and wide-angle.
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Wow, that’s quite a landmark, Alex. Congratulations.
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Goby on coral in the Lembeh Straits© Timsimages.uk
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.... and you get two reusable wine corks too. Essential for any home. Cheers!
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The team at Waterpixels are delighted to announce that our 1000th member, @Grega joined the Waterpixels community on 15 March. An especially warm welcome to Grega! Thanks to all those who have signed up since we started in Dec 2023. We reached our 500th member in February 2024 and have seen a continuous stream of people signing up since then. We'd like to thank members for continuing to engage so positively and in a great spirit of willingness to share and be helpful. We're especially delighted that unpleasant exchanges continue to be few and far between, sadly a rarity on an online forum. It's the contributions to the forum from members and their willingness to share experiences, ideas and advice that has allowed the site to continue growing so positively. We look forward to everyone's ongoing contributions and to many new members coming onboard. Great to have you all with us! -
Hi Martin! A warm welcome to Waterpixels. We hope you really enjoy the forum. Best wishes Tim
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Good to have you with ups, Johan. Welcome to Waterpixels. I've just read your strobe issue. Annoying, especially with a trip coming up. Sorry, I'm not sure I can be of much help (my only thought was a trigger battery issue) but I'm sure others will weigh in. Standby! Best wishes Tim
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As brightnight says, a sharp blade is important to get a clean cut especially if you are thinking of using TTL. A box cutter is ideal.
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Fair enough, Chris. I'm sure all system are not alike. It could be, too, that I'm just too lazy to make the changes....
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Over the years I’ve found that a change of lens/port doesn’t usually make such a dramatic change of buoyancy that it’s worth endless shifting of floats, adjusting of buoyancy arms etc. If you get reasonably neutrally buoyancy for a 60mm macro setup, I’ve found that to be about a reasonable average. Changing port and lens from that will increase or decrease buoyancy slightly. But rarely enough to be troublesome.
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Ouch
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Hi Dave I get nothing when clicking on the link. May be better to upload a copy of the image to your post?
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As Barmaglot says: luggage scale. Works a treat.
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Hi Pescha Welcome to Waterpixels! It’s very good to have you with us. We hope you enjoy the forum. Best wishes Tim
