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Or a broken-leg rescue scene...:-)
Hey that's not nice. From my conversations with Herb I know he skis well. Been 2 years since I have been out. Tough to have that hobby and diving and fit that all into one budget and holiday time. Must love diving as I used to work in a ski shop.
I was joking of course. Anyone that's willing to drive 4 hrs to tahoe to ski on the weekends EVERY weekend is probably pretty good. It must have been the jealousy kicking in - I used to live in Berkeley and drive to Kirkwood when they had the $21 "young adult" passes back in the 90's
Cheers
James
Na I knew you were joking, I too am jealous!
Even topside I would be curious. Like a mountain scene...
Mountain pics with the 10-22 taken last weekend.
I change the CF card after every dive and I do 5 dives a day.
Wow, you change your card after every dive? Do you use a 512mb?
I use a 1 gb card and always can get at least 2 dives on a card shooting RAW (compressed D70 ~6Mb ea). I can't justify diving more than 2/day with my wife and kids there. As soon as I hit the dock I'm in full on sand-castle mode.
I agree that its a bad idea to open the housing on the boat. The way I work I don't open the housing except on land. I wouldn't want a solution that would require me to open the housing after every dive. If you want to switch lenses for a specific purpose, then you have to open the housing anyway.
I think the best solution would be to look into a larger card. Weather or not you have to open the front, back loosen screws etc. if you have to open the housing after every dive something is wrong. Unless you are on a liveaboard you don't want to deal with laptops or storage devices on the boat either. So going for a bigger card really isn't an expense over multiple smaller cards since the cost per megabyte is about the same.
Every housing has its pros and its cons--Ikelite is no different. I just think you get a lot of value out of Ikelite housings--price, TTL, security etc. I think to say that the port selection is limited is a misleading. Except for the 10D/Sigma 12-24mm, I don't think there is one critical lens missing. And even that may be corrected soon with either the Sigma 10-20 or the 8" dome port.
Besides the poster was asking about the 20D not the 10D. For this camera you have lots of choices with Ikelite ports. Sigma or Canon macro lenses 50-100mm, Sigma or Canon WA 15mm FE and Canon 10-22mm and a midrange zoom with the two Canon kit lenses. Ikelite has ports for much more, but I think that covers the critical UW list.
The eTTL2 of Canon 20D is a drastic improvement over eTTL of earlier models and works extremely well............
Hi Newbie,
Perhaps you don't understand the reasons for changing the card between dives. I'll try to explain my thinking and maybe you'll want to try this too:
1) Shooting Raw+Jpeg w/ a high megapixel camera, you can fill a big card on a single dive
2) View and download your photos in between dives.
3) Just switch out the cards. It's better to have at least 2 cards and pull one after a dive, and put in a fresh one. Then you can dl/backup the previous dive and get a fresh card in there.
Maybe it's a throwback to the film days, but I just don't like to make a dive - where ANYTHING can happen - with a card that is 2/3 full.
I think your perspective will change when you do a liveaboard trip with 4 or even 5 dives a day. Or worse (knock on wood) when you flood a camera and lose 4 dives worth of photos, especially that whale shark you saw in the morning...
Cheers
James
Obviously, two schools of thought on changing cards between dives. Personally, I like to use a high-capacity memory card and shoot with it all day. Once the housing is sealed, and proven secure, I'd prefer to keep it that way as long as possible. At the end of the day, when I have plenty of time, I swap out cards and batteries and carefully re-seal the housing for the next day. I feel like every time I open the housing and re-close it, I've created a new opportunity for error ... and a flood. So I prefer to minimize the opportunity for error. Of course, swapping lenses and ports from time to time during the day also injects a new opportunity, but it's just one seal. Today, it's easily possible to shoot through a day of 4-5 dives on a single memory card and camera/strobe batteries.
Dove with the Canon 10-22mm today in Aquatica 20D housing with dual Ike 125 strobes, marginal
conditions, but a heck of a lot warmer than those snow scenes on this thread!
Jury is still out, first time I've used this lens. I'm not convinced that on the 20D it's as wide in
coverage as the Nikor 16mm. on film. Intend to try them both side by side.
Tom Stack
Tom,
Maybe we need to know actual focal lengths to the nearest 0.1 mm? The marked FL’s are generally a rounded value. 1 mm makes a bigger difference now with such short FL's in use for the newer smaller formats.
Tom
Tom,
Good point, but my thinking is that it has to do with the sensor. I'm sure that someone
more knowledgeable on this subject will shortly fill us in!
The Nikor 10.5 sure looks a heck of a lot wider on a D-70!
Tom
Tom.
Read the Topic title "Fisheye for Canon" on page 2 of this forum.
As I thought, it is Canon's "cropped sensor" that apparently makes the difference.
Just as we're switching from Nikon back to Canon after 15 years of shooting!
No wonder our UW Photo Workshop participant Don Kincaid's work with the Nikor 10.5mm.
was so impressive and we cannot match it with Canon lenses!
Tom
Yup, if you want the full 180 degrees you will need a lens specifically designed for camera's sensing area. Therefore Canon needs to develop FE's for for both the 1.3 AND for the 1.6 crop factor cams if they want to keep everyone happy! Probably ain't going to happen. I understand the 15mm Canon FE works rather well with the FF sensor unlike their prime or zoom rectilinear WA lenses.
Or worse (knock on wood) when you flood a camera and lose 4 dives worth of photos, especially that whale shark you saw in the morning...Cheers
James
I would think that while the camera would be toast, the CF memory would survive the saltwater bath. I checked the Internet and found the CF memory module surviving washing machines and an incoming tide. No reports of what happened if the memory was in powered camera at the time of submersion. Maybe someone could perform a little experiment for us ... 
Maybe someone could perform a little experiment for us ...
Hey, I have an old 16mb card that came with my point and shoot, but I never used it because it holds only about 15 photos. I will try to give it a quick bath!
I would think that while the camera would be toast, the CF memory would survive the saltwater bath. I checked the Internet and found the CF memory module surviving washing machines and an incoming tide. No reports of what happened if the memory was in powered camera at the time of submersion. Maybe someone could perform a little experiment for us ...
I had a CF card survive a flood. The camera was on with a sync attached. The camera is toast, of course.
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