On my recent Bali trip I had horrendous fogging from a few minutes into the first dive of the day and, as I'd already lost my strobe to a sensor flood, I was pretty sad. But, hey, I was in Bali and knew the critters would be fabulous so settled in to enjoy a photo free dive...but then I thought, why not see what would happen if I tried to take photos anyway. Fully expecting blur blur blur.
Imagine my happy face when my photos turned out pretty dang good, even finding focus on tough subjects like skeleton shrimp in current. Wide, super close-up and "regular" macro shots all worked. I'm sharing to let others know that all may not be lost if you get big fog; just keep smiling & shooting! I did two dives with the rig this way; the left shot shows how bad it was & the right hand shows one of only two frames that didn't hit the subject. Ideal, no. Pleasantly surprising, surely!
Olympus TG5 in Oly housing
