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[Arnon_Ayal]

Any tips how to shoot in the night?
e.g. : how to hold the strobe & the camera?
I assume I need to use the strobe also to light the point I shoot so the camera could set the AF/WB....

[Andi Voeltz]

Hi Dede,

actually shooting at night is very easy with a simple dive light. If find it even easier than daylight shooting... It is just a little bit hard to catch fast moving objects... If you shoot in automatic mode, the camera will not be able to freeze fast movements without a strobe... But try shooting withour strobe first. A strong modelling light should deliver nice quality fort Lionfishs, Corals, Octopus etc. Trouble starts with a "dancing" spanish dancer... Also feeding sepia's can be a problem. The edges will appear unsharp.

That's some stuff for the start...

[davephdv]

In Cocos I set my 5000 as such:

Wide angle lens, one DS 125 set about 2 ft above the camera and set to F, Fixed manual focus set at 4 ft. F8.0, Aperature priority.

Camera fired first shot when buffer was empty almost instantanously. (i.e. no shutter lag!!)

Mix in about 500 white tip reef sharks in a feeding frenzy at dusk every night and you get some cool pixs.

[Arnon_Ayal]

[Arnon_Ayal]