OMD-EM5 , wide angle ,Meditérranée

Hello

I own since one month the new Olympus micro 43 that I bought after having read Alex Mustard report , but I thought about this since I rode the announcement of this new camera on Wetpixel at the beggining of 2012.

I owned before a Nikon D90, that I've already sold .. .

I'm completely satisfied of this new rig , it's easy to carry everywhere including underwater . The Nauticam housing is extremely easy and pleasant to use when preparing the camera and taking picture as well .

Here are some pics I did take with it , most of them are wrecks as the weather is really nice since one month here so we can make deep dives , and some of our very popular groupers or other fishes .All the pictures have been taken with the Panasonic 8 mm .

I've not yet try macro , some pictures only , but it seems really promising .

Hope you'll understand my poor english ..and I apologize for that

Here are the pictures .

(Some more including macro tentatives can be seen at :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7189548@N05/sets/72157630758360172/ )

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Thank for your attention , all comments are welcome !

Very nice!

Well done Domi. i hope we can get you the 12-50 port and gear very soon.

Lovely shots Domi

Looking really great!

Alex

Excellent, what strobes are you using? Shooting in Manual or using TTL????

Thank you so much for your kind comments !!

I 've used the whole Inon strobes family for these pictures D2000 , S2000 and now Z240.

Z 240 mainly because they allow to change the position of the magnet allowing to permute from manual to TTL .

All the pictures have been taken with flashes on manual , I'm not used to TTL and untill now I've perform mainly wide angle shots .

Hello Sting Ray,

Thank You for sharing your great pictures!

I have recently bought the OMD EM-5 and ordered the Nauticam Housing for the 12-50mm lens with the zoom gear.

However I am doubtig about the flash. D2000 or Z-240...? Is Z240 worth the price difference comparing to D2000?

You mention you like making wide angle pics. there it is where enough light is pobably critical?

I have another question about the Under water mode of the OMD. Do you in your exprience use it? When I switch it on, I see that the camera automatically decreases in light and adjusts the flash intesity..

I would probably adjust the white balance to the 5500 Kelvin only. (The Inon flashes color temperature)

Thanks much for sharing your thoughts.

Ice bear.

Hello

Hello Sting Ray,

Thank You for sharing your great pictures!

 

I have recently bought the OMD EM-5 and ordered the Nauticam Housing for the 12-50mm lens with the zoom gear.

 

However I am doubtig about the flash. D2000 or Z-240...? Is Z240 worth the price difference comparing to D2000?

You mention you like making wide angle pics. there it is where enough light is pobably critical?

 

I have another question about the Under water mode of the OMD. Do you in your exprience use it? When I switch it on, I see that the camera automatically decreases in light and adjusts the flash intesity..

I would probably adjust the white balance to the 5500 Kelvin only. (The Inon flashes color temperature)

 

Thanks much for sharing your thoughts.

 

Ice bear.

The great advantage of the Z 240 upon the D 2000 ( if I'm right ) is that tou can change underwater the position of the magnet , so you can switch from Manual mode to TTL.

At the moment I have not yet to try TTL because I do mainly ( actually ) wide angle shots .

But I was very happy with my two Inon S 2000 too when I did used them with my Canon S 90 , but probably the more powerfull Z 240 will do a better job with the OMD .

Sorry but I never use any underwater mode ..

Girelle or Dominique as you like

Hallo Dominique,

Thanks much for your comments. The manual flash mode is indeed not a bad thing.

It will be my first time taking the OMD under the water. I took some pictures with the Olympus PEN E PL-2 and Z-240 in the past. The UW mode on that camera made quite a good job on the WB settings however the Photoshop light room 4 made the real work in the post-processing in my limmited UW photography experience.

As long as my gear will arrive I will be curious to use the WB settings in the color temperature of the flash used. I never did this so am curious if this will have a possitive effect.

To be honest I am not really sure what great advantages the UW mode brings (next to the WB).

Best Regards,

Michal