Hello everyone,
I've been reading these forums this past week and I decided to buy the Canon G11. I've been using other Canon P&S's for the past 4 years with the oem houseing and a small Sea & Sea strobe, but now I'm ready to move up and take my hobby to the next level.
After reading the Point & Shoot out on Backscatter, http://www.backscatter.com/learn/article/article.php?ID=80 I took their suggestions as well, but it was a tough decision between the Canon G11 and S90. Both excellent cameras but decided on the G11 for now and maybe the S90 later as well.
So I'm going to buy the Fisheye Fix G11 housing mostly because of the size factor. Although I'm a little disappointed that I can not change lenses underwater, but I'll get used to it. Now the question is which strobes to buy. The Inon Z240 is what the article suggests, but the Inon D-2000 looks really nice as well. I was thinking to buy 1 strobe for now, then add a 2nd strobe later. Most importantly is size and traveling light for now as I'm living in Arizona and I have to fly to all my dive destination. Although I'm planning on moving to Florida within 1 to 2 years so then perhaps I can move up to a SLR later.
I was also thinking of buying the Fisheye UWL-04 wide lens as well as the Fisheye element flip macro lens. Anyone else here using this macro lens? Is this a good option for this housing?
I've also been entertaining the idea of having my G11 and perhaps one of those Flip HD's video cameras on the same tray arm, perhaps 1 strobe for photos and 1 video light for movies. I hate the fact the G11 doesn't have HD video on it but hopefully that feature will come about in a compact size in the next year or two.
What are you guys thoughts on a setup like that? Or is the video on the G11 pretty good underwater?
Thanks
