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Equipment for Underwater photography?
I will be going snorkeling with sea turtles in the Great Barrier Reefs in a 3 weeks (exactly 21 days lol). i have a Canon 40D that i will be bringing, a long with an underwater camera bag and various lenses. Im kind of new to the filter stuff, and i just found out about the underwater filters. Are the underwater filters necessary for taking pictures underwater? If it is, is there a place where i can get one quickly, before i go on my trip? thanks guys. I live in Hong Kong by the way.
A camera bag for that camera? I’m not a fan of those things. Especially if you’re putting an SLR in one. The plastic port on them distorts your image somewhat not to mention the risk you’re taking using that bag unless you don’t care much for the camera. There’s also the issue of using your camera functions. As you descend, the air in the bag compresses. It will compress to the point where the bag sides collapse against your function buttons, pressing them and suddenly all your cameras settings change, modes, switch and even shutter releases.You’re better off to pick up a cheap amphibious digital. You’re images will be better even with just a 5MP amphib since it’s not shooting through a bag and it’s light metering reflects real world conditions, not that inside the bag.. Pixel count won’t help you when it comes to things like backscatter (light bouncing off suspended particles in the water column) or capturing a true image that hasn’t had ambient colours washed out by depth. Red is the first to go and that happens at 15 feet. Because of water depth’s ability to absorb the spectra increasing with depth, filters can be a bonus to a scuba diver, but chances are, you aren’t going past 15 feet snorkeling.
Filters will just alter your true colour to make for a “normal” looking pic. By “normal”, I mean what the average joe blow expects everything to look like underwater, namely a beautiful blue. Sometimes it just ain’t that way in reality and is not natural at all.
If you really want to experiment with filters or expect to descend below 15 feet, try using one of the Magic filter cards. It’s a “disposable” card you cut your filter out of and can temporarily insert it into the lens housing, where if you’ve cut it correctly, it’ll stay. They’re cheap. Ask around at local dive shop. The dive shop will definitely be able to at least point you to someone that sells it or something similar if they don’t stock it themselves. I’ve found that all you get are blank stares if you ask anything about underwater photgraphy at a camera shop, as a rule. A dive shop on the other hand, will have someone on staff that probably even offers courses on underwater photography, since it’s actually a diving specialty you can earn a certification for.
Bottom line here though…I wouldn’t even consider taking that camera down 1 foot in a camera bag. A proper housing, yes, bag no. The cost is what’s going to make or break it for you. An excellent housing for that camera would retail for at least $450 Canadian. That’s 4 times as much money as you’d spend on a cheap 5mp digital hcsd amphibious or twice as much as you’d spend on a good 8mp amphib that doesn’t require a housing because they already come in one. One minor problem with that camera bag you intend on using and it’s game over for that 40D. A minor problem with a cheap alternative and it’s a cheap loss versus that expensive 40D replacement.
This is what I use:
The camera is a Canon A720IS http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=183&modelid=15657
The housing is Ike LIte (even though Canon makes one, it isn’t rated deep enough for the diving I do) http://ikelite.com/web_two/can_a710.html
I also use that housing’s dual strobe set because I’m sometimes diving dark and deep.
I personally do not use filters. You can use your white balance to overcome a lot of what’s thrown at you and that’s as far as I go to manipulate what the eyeball truly sees.
Total cost of that rig, minus the strobes was about $700 canadian.
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