Brian McHugh

Thanks Abi!

I would keep your aperture up around f8 to keep the image sharper around the corners and be more forgiving on the focus.  I shoot my D7000 at ISO 800 with minimal noise as long as you get the exposure decent.  I would not hesitate to push the ISO to 1600 if needed to keep the shutter speed up.

Pygmy Seahorse taken at Wakatobi last May. My first trip outside North America, will always be memorable.
Nikon D7000, 60mm w/1.4x Teleconverter, 2 YS110a strobes

Hi all, I just got a Nikon D7000 and would like to know if there is a very good quality all purpose lens to get me by until I can aquire a Tokina 10-17 and a 60mm micro. I would like one that is good at both W/A and has macro capability. Thanks for any and all advice.

If you are diving in murky water like Seatle I would suggest going with the 60mm as you will have more conditions that will produce decent shots. You have some great macro critters in the PNW. I love my Tokina but unless you have decent visibility your results will not be satisfactory. If you travel to warm clear water I would probably start out with the Tokina.

Brian
San Diego
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That is strange because Sea&Sea YS 110 alphas are dsTTL compatible with D7000 (and their dsTTL is very reliable) many people here use them that way (and I have tried it too)...

I have not been able to get my strobes to sync via dsTTL and expose properly, although it worked fine on my previous camera (Olympus E-520). I pulled this off of B&H's site description for the D7000 housing: The YS converter/N is not currently compatible with the Nikon D7000 in a DSLR housing. The DS-TTL function on Sea&Sea's YS-110a and YS-01 strobes is not compatible with the Nikon D7000 due to the camera’s TTL system. Please use these strobes in manual mode.

I know there was a firmware update on the strobes for the newer versions, mine were older versions purchased prior to the D7000's existance. Perhaps these newer strobes work in dsTTL? S&S recentley updated their electronic TTL converter to work with the D7000 as well as the previous version was incompatible. S&S still lists the dsTTL for the YS01 as incompatible but the newer YS-D1 as compatible via dsTTL2. It was unclear where the current YS110a falls in their list.

Brian