Jasoncassanova

Happy New Year everyone I just want to have another person's point of view in my situation right now...

I have a G11 Ikelite underwater set up with a single DS 160... Now I'm planning to move on to DLSR and I got myself a D7000, my dilemma right now is that, if I should get another DS 160 strobe together with a Ikelite housing for the D7000 or if I should get a Nauticam/Aquatica housing, sell my previous set up and go for a pair of YS 110 strobes.

The reason for going with the aluminum housing is...

a. weight of the Ikelite housing
b. from what i've noticed is that Sea and Sea strobes give a sharper lighting compared to Ikelite based on the pictures i've seen (I could be wrong)
c. ergonomics of the Ikelite housing


The reason for going with the polycarbonate housing...

a. cheaper by half the price
b. i already have one DS 160 strobe and I just need to get one more
c. financially practical

what do you guys think?



Neil.

Whenever I attach my two stacked 165 Inon Macro lenses into my Ikelite housing, I have to adjust the zoom to avoid vignetting but I recently discovered that when my G11 is on macro setting, I don't have to adjust the zoom to my lenses whenever I place the super macro lenses in the port.

well usually we set our ISO at 100 as standard, although I have a question, what is i have two 8 in. arms holding my DS 160 Ikelite strobe and I have set it to TTL. Since my light is kinda strong and I'm still new in taking pics, the pic kinda comes out brightly lit, would it be better if i'd take it a notch down to 80 ISO? I know I can still do adjustments on Aperture and Shutter Speed, but I'd like to know if putting my ISO to 80 would make a better result?

So here it goes, well I a G11 in an Ikelite housing, I bought an Inon 165mm macro lens, the first time I used the lens I learned that you need to zoom out the lens so that the shot I take doesn't make that James Bond 007 kind of circle in my photos. So I zoomed it out all the way to the line that I see in my bar on the top part of the lcd when I zoom the lens, then I bought another Inon 165mm macro lens and stacked it on the first one that I bought. now my question is, do I have to zoom out the lens all the way to that line on G11's zoom "bar" (?) or just zoom it enough so as not to create that barrel look in my photos?

I know somewhere down the road some of you have encountered this once or twice, so maybe i'm hoping someone can help me with this. I recently purchased a pelican case with padded dividers and the dividers have this funny smell, how can I take out the smell without leaving chemical compositions that can ruin my gear?