ScubaBC

Yes, doing the white balance while holding a card and trying to hold the housing was impossible, lol... Here is a photo of the setup. It's just a cheap selfie stick off Amazon that had a 1/4 - 20 threaded hole in the bottom for the ball mount. Now taking custom white balance is easy as pie and it has made a noticeable difference in my footage. I used aquaseal to attach an old dive slate to the back of the whitebal card to stiffen it up a bit too.

Yes, that is what I thought. It looks like a great camera to me.

Is CWB still a big deal when you're shooting in 16 bit raw as the FX5 does? I currently shoot with a Sony A7SIII and use CWB all the time but I have a selfie stick with a whitebal card on it mounted to my Ultralight camera sled. I set my lighting, push the selfie stick down, take a white balance, and then I am good. Super easy as a one man show.

This was filmed over nearly 80 dives in the kelp forests near Browning Passage off northern Vancouver Island (God's Pocket area). Sites include Daphne Point, Hardy Bay, 7 Tree Island, Rock of Life, Browning Wall and Andy's Reef. This was filmed on my Sony A7SIII using both a Sony 16-35mm F4 lens and my Laowa 10mm F2.8 wide angle lens.

I have an Aquatica housing for my A7SIII and have over 600+ dives with it. A few little quirks with the buttons sticking but switching to the deep water spring kit seems to have solved my issues. Overall I am happy with it.

I shoot 60fps for most things and will switch to 120 for macro dives and/or where I have a lot of light. Shooting in 120 cuts out a lot of available light and increases file sizes substantially.

That really depends on the conditions, here in the pacific northwest we can have a nice sunny day where it's bright down to 100 feet or it could be cloudy with an algae bloom and it's pretty much pitch black at 60 feet. For wide angle I'll typically go with the native ISO of 12,800 which gives a nice clean image and I have my aperture set to 6 to 8 and it looks pretty good. If it's a darker day I have cranked it up to 32,000 with minimal noise and it can be corrected in post.

Thank you! Yes, I use 3 lights. I attached a photo of me with my camera rig. The 3rd light is positioned in the center and pointed either straight or slightly angled upward or down if the water is fairly clear... I find it works really well as a fill light with my two primary lights angled slightly outward to decrease backscatter. I am shooting in SLOG3 and using the lowest ISO possible so I need a lot of light to get the exposure right.

I've made 7 trips to Browning Passage over the last 4 years and have done about 70 dives in the area. This video is a compilation of the scenery and marine life at the different dive sites. Some quick timestamps if you want to see specific dive sites. 0:00 - Intro and Aerial Footage Of Browning Passage 0:53 - World Famous Browning Wall 32:22 - Hardy Bay Hooded Nudibranchs 40:00 - Barry Islet and Gorgonian Corals 52:09 - 5 Fathom Rock Schools Of Fish 01:00:55 - The Grotto 01:18:18 - Coolio's Dream 01:26:06 - Gangsta's Paradise 01:33:28 - Rock Of Life 01:40:55 - 7 Tree Island Filmed with a Sony A7SIII + Sony 16-35mm f/4 lens in an Aquatica Digital housing with 3x18,000 lumen kraken video lights. Shot in SLOG3 (10 bit 4:2:2) and graded in Davinci Resolve.

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it. Thank you Maria! Yes, you are more than welcome to share and play it anywhere you like!

Thank you! Yes, that's the full video, the teaser is on reddit, I just copied my post from there.

Filmed over hundreds of dives around Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea, this is a 1-minute teaser for my full 2-hour film featuring wild Pacific octopus and Ruby octopus. From babies the size of a pea to full-grown giants. No narration, no captions—just octopuses doing octopus things in the cold, emerald waters of British Columbia. You’ll see them hunt, change color, fight, crawl, vanish, and interact with their environment in ways that might leave you with a new appreciation for these incredible creatures. Great to play in the background—or just zone out and watch them move.

This video is a collection of footage from hundreds of dives over the past 3 years around Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Dive sites include Nanaimo, Nanoose, Gabriola Island, Campbell River, Barkley Sound, Port Hardy, and Browning Passage. It’s set to relaxing music—no narration, no captions, no divers—just marine life and cold water scenery. Perfect for background viewing or whenever you need a moment of calm. Hope you enjoy it!