Fix s90 question

Hi,

I have the s90 and just ordered the Fix housing. I don't own any other equipment or lenses. I primarily want memories. I'm not looking for pro quality. I dive mostly in the CA kelp beds with occasional warm water trips. Any suggestions for a simple beginner set up? Also , any idea why the 2 lens flip Macro is more expensive than the 3 lens?

Thanks, Hilary

Hi,

I have the s90 and just ordered the Fix housing. I don't own any other equipment or lenses. I primarily want memories. I'm not looking for pro quality. I dive mostly in the CA kelp beds with occasional warm water trips. Any suggestions for a simple beginner set up? Also , any idea why the 2 lens flip Macro is more expensive than the 3 lens?

Thanks, Hilary

Hillary need to know more? You imply that you want macro memories? Are you going to add an external flash? BTW the S90 will give you all the way up to pro quality photos its only a matter of what you shoot and the camera's settings.

I shoot a lot of macro as a fine art photographer so I assume I will do some macro but I also want "snapshots". I will probably want external strobes eventually and a wide angle lens as well. On land, I'm used to shooting everything, even at night, without flash and using a 28mm to 250mm macro zoom lens and point and shoots with much better macro ability so I don't really have a feel for the underwater set up at all.

Thanks, Hilary

Hilary, IVO what you said I would start with a good small u/w flash like the Inon S2000. One must have a good strobe to render colors correctly u/w. Some folks use high powered flashlights to paint the picture, but they may scare off your subjecst and need to have high wattage & lumens.

Fisheye FIX has several options for adding close-up adaptor lens which you could look into.

A tray and handle to link it all up is IMHO a necessity.

As far as technique goes the hardest thing to get right will be lighting the subject properly since I assume you are already good a composition. Next skill will be shooting since even in the S90 there will be some digital delay. I notice in the S90 manual that Canon repeatedly mentions shooting from the half cocked position, that is an essential technique. Pratice it and do what I always tell newbies, shoot, shoot, shoot! The advantage of digital over film is that its hard to run out of image space

Hillary, where in CA are you located?

As Lee said, the Inon S2000 is a fantastic, compact strobe for this set up. That, and the Sea & sea YS-110a are my recommendations for the S90 set up. S2000 is smaller...110a is more powerful.