let's see ... the second photo has divers in silhouette, a sunburst, schooling reef fish, an anemone, and Nemo ... yup, that's the whole checklist ... GREAT PHOTO ... WELL DONE!
EXIF added below the pics
Nice shots. Love the second one. Great visualization. Too bad you couldn't tell the divers to stop right there. Then tell the anemone fish to move a little more to the front of the anemone.
Not bad for Sigma lenses
Herb, you're shooting an A300 without the ICU?
I'd be interested to know how you felt the DigiReb handled. The shots look nice and sharp in web form - how do they look at 100%? Also, I don't think I saw any kit lens photos - did you not use it, or did they just not turn out as well as the 15mm and 50mm ones?
Not bad for Sigma lenses
Herb, you're shooting an A300 without the ICU?
I'd be interested to know how you felt the DigiReb handled. The shots look nice and sharp in web form - how do they look at 100%? Also, I don't think I saw any kit lens photos - did you not use it, or did they just not turn out as well as the 15mm and 50mm ones?
No ICU. Manual strobe control.
As I mentioned elsewhere, using a viewfinder took some getting use to, but other than that I thought it handled well. It would be much better to have independent button controls for the shutter and aperture, but all the camera maker's gone to the &*#@$ thumb wheel.
DId not use the kit lens at all, and only two dives with the 105mm. Most shots were done using the 15mm or the 50mm. Images look sharp, I post some full size crops later.
100% Crops
Not bad for Sigma lenses
OK. Judge for yourself
Scaled, Uncroped
Focal length : 15.0mm
Exposure time: 0.0080 s (1/125)
Aperture : f/4.5
ISO equiv. : 100
100% crop upper left corner
100% crop center
Hopefully we will be posting Herb's review for the Aquatica 300D housing soon..;-)
Cheers
James
Herb,
Thanks for pointing us back to this thread. If you still have the RAW files, and I trust you do, can you try re-converting them and adjusting the CA sliders until the lines are "aligned" in the corners? I think you may be able to get a better result. This assumes of course, that you didn't do this already.
CA correction has power to incredibly improve some wideangle shots. Something film shooters simply can't do.
Cheers
James
Love the jellyfish with the juvenile fish hiding inside. Far and away the best shot there.
Herb,
Thanks for pointing us back to this thread. If you still have the RAW files, and I trust you do, can you try re-converting them and adjusting the CA sliders until the lines are "aligned" in the corners? I think you may be able to get a better result. This assumes of course, that you didn't do this already.
CA correction has power to incredibly improve some wideangle shots. Something film shooters simply can't do.
Cheers
James
I use Capture One and there are no CA adjustments. I just checked again.
Do you see CA in the photo?
I'm not sure if it's CA or motion blur in the 100% crop from the upper left corner Herb. So it might be worth a try.
