Beautiful images, Mark. Thanks for sharing them. How was the flash unit
protected from the water? Did it have its own housing?
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Mark Dapoz" <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] underwater photography
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, WayneS wrote:
>>
>> Also the reason to have a responsive camera underwater with good low
>> light capability. Since looking though a viewfinder is also not easy,
>> the back panel LCD with live view would be great. One of the reasons
>> I think todays digitals might be worth trying. If the micro 4/3rd's is
>> decent
>> that would be a perfect candidate to also use underwater.
>
> Way back in the 80's when I was into UW photography my standard kit was
> a Nikonos V with the massive SB102 flash. It's a wonderful system and
> even today it probably gives better results than most of the UW digital
> stuff. Focusing was simply pre-set and framing was very easy using the
> little plastic frames that slid into the top of the camera. Forget the
> viewfinder, it's useless. Even macro focusing is dead simple, use a macro
> framer which is basically a bent square frame that sticks out and tells
> you the plane of focus. Here are some sample UW macros I took with the
> Nikonos V using Kodachrome 64:
>
> http://olympus.dementia.org/misc/uw_macro1.jpg
> http://olympus.dementia.org/misc/uw_macro2.jpg
> http://olympus.dementia.org/misc/uw_macro3.jpg
>
> Some day I'll have to get back into this stuff.....
> -mark
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