Northwest Dive Club

very nice..thank you

Liked watching the tube worm open up. Lighting on the GOP was perfect I thought.

Thanks all! I seriously can't wait to get out with it again!!! sadly still catching up from the Chicago/Lollapalooza trip plus house guests coming to town and a wedding to shoot on Saturday, so getting kit ready for that takes priority... Darn adult-ing getting in the way of diving

I'll also write a review of the camera/housing/etc... If you have any interest in videography and have a moderate budget I would highly recommend taking a close look at this system.

Beautiful video! Thank you.

Can you see the video display well enough through the housing to frame things up and determine focus? I'm looking at the GH5 and am wondering if an external monitor would be required. Hopefully not!

Really cool. Love the 60mm Oly lens, very great lens for PNW. Thanks for sharing!

Stephen,

Yes and no... I'm used to shooting with a tiny viewfinder with regards to framing and with the peaking i can for see when things are generally in focus. Now I'm using an Atomos Shogun in Nauticam housing as external monitor and off board recorder (for prores footage) which makes finding focus etc MUCH much easier for macro work. I've shot a lot with the 100mm macro on a Canon 5DMK2 with and without a supermacro adaptor and i find the 60mm on the GH4 (with the crop factor for 4k being in the 2.3 range) that its a bit of a unique experience. It's not quite supermacro but its longer than the 100mm on a full frame (which is pretty much my all time fav. Macro lens around here). Basically there is no 'fudging it' you need your framing and focus right on. Nudibranch's have a tendency to crawl out of my shot if I'm not careful. Also there is pretty much no room for a quick off the cuff handheld, with the 100mm i could sometimes pull off a stable enough shot without the tripod hunkering down just using my arms/hands etc, with the GH4 + 60mm shooting video that is a no go. (Also keep in mind I'm only talking 4k video, i don't really shoot stills, with stills and standard non-4k video it is more forgiving)

Thanks Laura. I'll be shooting video and am used to using a tripod. I was just hoping I wouldn't have to layout the $ for a monitor. I"m trying to figure out an upgrade path from my current light and motion bluefin setup.

I pushed back against getting an external monitor for years after switching from L&M housing that had one integrated. It took me one dive to get totally addicted to it again . Now I'm just sorting out the cables to make what I have compatible with all my systems.