Nicholas Seaman

Registrations and contact on Scubaboard was down for a couple of days and I see it's up again today. Thanks in any case!

Hi! I realize this is not really related to this forum but.. I've been trying to reach Scubaboard for quite a while on e.g. https://scubaboard.com/community/misc/contact or the registration page but can't since I get a "ERROR for site owner: Invalid site key" message there. I assume it's a site error that their admins might unfortunately not see as I suspect that everything works correctly for their members. Is anyone here a registered member on Scubaboard? Might I ask a favor to report this to their admin? I would be super grateful!

I've been thinking a lot about this the past couple of days but ultimately decided to get a strobe, even if I pretty much only take pictures of very slow moving critters.. The MF-2 seemed to be one most often recommended but I couldn't really find it used in the EU (I wish ebay worked well here but it's almost all about US, Japan, UK..). Instead, I bought a YS-01 for a decent price. Looking forward to trying it out on the next trip! Also got a tray, trigger etc. I might be able to get a good price for a used old sony a6000 with underwater housing, but then I'd have to purchase a proper lens and thread/port for macro (as I believe the current owner have done wide angle photography only), so it might still be a bit costly in the end. Also, it wasn't clear to me if it would get close to E-M10/R100/R50 image quality. Any ideas? In any case, thanks everyone for all the help you've provided!

First of all, sorry if this question already got asked here but I did a quick check and I didn't seem to be too many people were in my exact shoes.. I do mostly macro, photo only and travel with the camera setup to SE Asia. So far, my diving buddy has used one or two torches and I've been using the camera (so currently no strobes). I've been using the Olympus TG-4 with an underwater housing to do macro photography and been quite happy with it overall, however, it needs so much light to produce good picture quality so I'm thinking about upgrading. What's the "step up" from those TG-models? I've been thinking about Canon R50/R100 as some people write about them, but I'm hesitating as I worry that it will significantly more cumbersome, pricier (esp. if I choose to add a strobe or sth similar) and that it'll weigh a lot more. Are these concerns perfectly valid or a bit exaggerated? Also noticed the Olympus E-M10 but can't see if it would be a better choice than R50/R100. Would an upgrade to a TG-7 suffice? Wouldn't it have pretty much the same low light difficulties as the TG-4? Or is there a good middle road between the Olympus Tough and Canon R50/100? ps. I threw out this question on reddit but realised that people here on waterpixels seem really knowledgeable about cameras for uw photo..

Hi all, I'm doing mostly tropical diving in SE Asia, although I maintain a full set of diving in cold water (that always seems too cold even with my 7+7mm Mares wetsuit). I love looking at things both small and big, however, I'm mostly looking forward to improving my macro photo skills.