bvanant

I am shooting an OM-1 in an AOI housing, mostly (well almost all) and have all the macro lenses (30,45,60,90) and the 12-50 and 14-42. We are doing a Banda trip to Manuk and Guning API to shoot snakes. I would like a wide angle solution using some water contact lenses (not a dome port). What should I buy. thanks Bill

Thanks no rush. BVA

Phil, I was guessing you might be someone who has one. Let me know Bill

We took a portable defibrillator to our friend's resort in Bali. We tried to take it on as a carry on and the crew said it couldn't fly. We pointed out that it was identical to the defibrillator in the cabin above row 6. Finally they agreed (after much discussion). Bill

Hopefully the later one, but either would be OK. Bill

Looking for an Athena Ringflash. I know you have one somewhere in your closet. thanks BILL

Must be new at DEMA, nothing yet on the Scubalamp website Bill

I am pretty sure that all of the multi-strand fiber is in fact PMMA (the Asahi 613 core certainly is). As Dave points out, the 613 core has a minimum bend radius of 1 mm or so while a 2 mm single fiber has a bend radius of like 25 mm or so. Bill

I hear the term "quality of light" all the time with particular emphasis on "wide beam" and "good color temperature". Does anyone have a real world example of similar subjects with "crappy" light and with "good" light. I suspect a bit of this is very subjective, and a bit of "I spent a lot of money so the light must be good". We just got off a Komodo trip where a friend had 2 of the new Backscatter Hybrids on a Z9, and I was shooting with 2 smaller strobes on an OM-1. Looking at pics during a slide show it was not obvious which shots were from which setup; we shot a lot of the same stuff. A couple of illustrations of good vs not so good light would be helpful (to me at least) Bill

Square space also www.blueviews.net Bill

Also for us. At Mainit point historically there were tons of nembrotha of all types. We dove there twice and saw a total of 3 nembrotha. The Rhino only showed up after the Backscatter macro guys all left. Bill

If you are looking for some dives in SOCAL, let me know. We dive a lot on the Giant Stride (mostly Palos Verdes and occasionally Catalina and Farnsworth) and getting on for a weekday should be pretty simple (weekends might be tough). Let me know if we can take you diving. Bill

We just got back from 2+ weeks at Crystal Blue. We did 2 BW dives a few nights, got back to the resort 11PM or so. Conditions were pretty murky and the BW dives were pretty slow but the day dives were pretty good. Saw the same Rhinopias as above (after a few days of hunting for her). January/Feb will have cooler water but BW can be awesome then. Bring a boat coat to stay warm between dives, the pangas have no shelter. Bill