Northwest Dive Club

Did you ever do this dive?

Yes please -- any viz reports lately? I've been out of our waters a while and have no idea what it's like lately.

I am all about doing the open waters here. Makes a person a better diver, for one... and plus she does want to potentially dive here with her boyfriend after the trip.

Thanks for the responses! Including the link to the other recent discussion.

I know I may get a lot of replies to this question! A friend/colleague wants to get certified before a trip to Hawaii in November. So it's getting to where she's not got a lot of time to fit it in. Her boyfriend dives locally, so she wants to do her open water dives here so she may dive locally in t...

My new roommate moves in TODAY! Why am I getting a roommate after living alone for so many years? Um... this camera might have something to do with it.

After reading as many reviews as i could find, looking at level of control, lens options, etc, i have purchased the Olympus OM-D E-M5. It seems the best choice given what i want to be able to do. Can't wait to try it out! I will be getting the Nauticam housing. I will start with the 12-50mm and go f...

Thanks for the replies. After much agonizing, er, researching, today I'm leaning towards the Olympus OM-D E-M5. It has most things I am looking for... it's a lot more expensive than the Sony RX100, which is what I was leaning towards yesterday till I realized the manual controls I'd give up. I do wa...

Sorry, I mean mirrorless. DSLR versus mirrorless.

I've not had a lot of luck talking with people at shops. So maybe my fellow divers can provide some input! I'm considering upgrading from my G10... Right now I'm thinking of a Nikon D7100 system. But I would love for someone who actually has experience with both compact cameras as well as DSLRs to h...

Loading up my gear after a dive at Point Hudson on Saturday seemed to go just a tad too fast. A good hour later while about to head into the Port Townsend Brewery after getting tank fills at Octopus Gardens it dawned on me that I never put my camera in my car. I raced (well, okay, I crawled in the t...

Sorry to have started the thread then get silent. Mr. Lundy -- seeing your images, I'm convinced. Yet clearly I don't know how to use the tools... need to take classes or at least the tutorial. I do have Lightroom and plan to get Photoshop (or at least Gimp). Thus far nothing is easy or fast in Ligh...

I finally started shooting RAW, because that's what everyone says to do.
But it is a colossal amount of work to even view them, much less make them editable. And when I export them to jpeg, they look super grainy.

Going back to jpeg format. Unless someone can convince me otherwise.

Dan, Thanks for all your feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to provide more detail. I still think what others told me is what you are saying -- that for batch work, Lightroom is your pal. For individual work, it's Photoshop. And they are to be used in tandem. Which means I need to get Photos...

I actually have Lightroom. I bought it after talking to other divers. But after taking a short class in Photoshop i know the limitations of Lightrrom. You can do a lot more with Photoshop to individual elements of photos. There is no masking with Lightroom. After learning this i didnt understand why...

Ah, got it.
I actually have no post-processing software. Am about to get Photoshop... eventually.
I've also never shot in RAW, assuming it will slow things down. I suppose I could try.

I posted a few photos at this site. https://plus.google.com/photos/112064220569230407666/albums/5904173883522892241?authkey=CKOdy8vLs4f3zwE Some I am happy with, some look yellow to me. I am starting to think the yellow light is just because the rig only has a single strobe. Which I will be selling....

Thanks for the recent replies! I've been meaning to return here and post some comments and photos. I have now dived this rig three times and I've gone back and forth between it and my cheaper Canon housing with the Sea and Sea strobes. I have noticed that only having one DS51 seems to be a major lim...

Thanks, Scubie Doo! I have the ISO at 80, and yes to diffuser. The on-board flash does not actually fire when I have the strobe attached to the hot mount. But I will certainly give it a try in the water to see how it performs -- including backing off the strobe a bit.
Thanks!

Thanks, Mike. Yeah, I didn't mention I have been using Sea & Sea strobes for a long time. I love them. I may end up reselling this Ikelite set up. I bought it for the housing and the strobe came with. I had always thought that is supposed to be a good strobe. But perhaps positioning is one good ...

I just picked up a used Ikelite housing and DS51 strobe for the Canon G10. I am only testing it dry so far, but I have the f-stop cranked to 8.0 and the shutter speed at 1/500, and it looks like everything is still getting blown out. I have tried the manual setting of 2 stops of underexposure. I hav...

$625 with both wings, $525 with only one wing. Hell of a deal, and my lowest offer.

I also just posed an M1 computer on ebay if anyone is interested.

Okey doke. Going down to $650. And I'll post some links so you can learn about this system easily. Here is the WTX harness: http://www.oceanenterprises.com/scuba-gear/aqualung-apeks-wtx-harness.html Here is the WTX3 air cell, aka wing: http://www.apeks.co.uk/products/product_cats_results.asp?Lan=ENG...

Thanks for posting this, Don!!

It is brand spankin new and a beaut.

Now i just gotta sell that Apeks kit.

Dropping price. $750.

I bought this system used (used twice in freshwater, except the WTX3, which has been used a tad more I think), and it is a Medium -- swallows me up (I'm 5'2"). I took it out yesterday -- so it's been once in saltwater. Apeks WTX harness WTX3 wing (for singles) WTX4 wing (for doubles) Apeks Sure...