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The hazards of wet lenses (Bonaire)

09 November 2012 - 01:23 PM

So I am in Bonaire for a week of diving. We do our check out dive and and couple of other dives the first day. That evening I get my camera gear set up. I am going to get my UK Germany LX5 housing wet for the first time since Uwe sent me a wet lens for it. We do the first dive and I take a few photos. As I enter the water for the second dive I wake the camera up and I see a water line in housing!!!! Ahhhh!! I swim like hell back to shore all the while watching the water line and waiting for the camera to die. Just as I reach shore I notice that the camera has not died. What the hell?? I look at the front and see water in the lens. Then it becomes clear - literally and figuratively. The wet lens was filling with water :-)))). I laugh at myself and then explain to my dive partners my irrational behavior as I swim back out.

I will up load a few photos for folks to critique here soon. In the mean time please laugh at my anticts :-).

Strobe arm - grip vs 45 degree mount

19 March 2012 - 08:55 AM

I am curious to know the pros and cons of how one mounts their arms to a tray. For instance, currently I have a grip one the left side of my tray to which a focus light is currently attached. On the right side I have a 45 degree mount that comes directly off the tray that has a 6" strobe arm connected to it (which is then connected to another arm and strobe). I am looking at getting a second strobe and was wondering about using a second grip rather than the 45 degree mount. The nice part about the 45 degree mount is that it moves the arm out a bit further which is nice when shooting with a single strobe. But with the grip on the right I can wedge my hand between the housing and grip when shooting which makes it a bit easier to hold the housing. So I am curious to what folks prefer and why. I know many of the DSLR housing do not use trays and the arms go directly onto the grips.

Single bulkhead - two strobes - sync cables?

15 January 2012 - 11:08 AM

Now that Uwe has made a wide angle wet lens adaptor for my LX-5 I now get the true 24mm of my lens I am thinking about adding a second strobe. Given that I have single bulkhead I have three options - dual sync cord, t-adaptor, or a slave. I am leaning towards buying a t-adaptor because my strobes come with a sync cord and I was thinking that it would be better to have two single cords and an adaptor rather than a single and a dual. The pit fall more connections to foul things up. Before going that route I thought I would check with others.

Aye Curumba - that is an expensive housing

15 December 2011 - 04:29 PM

I was going to post this link in the housing forums but could not resist putting here for more exposure:

http://cgi.ebay.com/... #ht_500wt_1201

I guess if you have a Leica you can afford it :-).

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