I already have the nikonos lenes. the 80mm w/closeup kit lens really blows up the tiny critters where you can see the tiny feather gills on an arrow crab and the cyndopasts on fire coral
I got a lot better wide angle shots of the hammerheads in Cocos w/ out a strobe and using the asa800 film . was truley painless in 100+ fsw . even hand holding the strobe way up and to the left using a modeling lite to target the sharks, the shots had much less backskatter w/ no strobe. and w/no strobe I could shoot more frames as the hammerheads ghosted in and out of the dive area.I personally have come to enjoy using the nikonos 15mm not fusin w/ the strobe on panoramic type locatons. According to the literature, the sony nex 5 seems to be able to shoot well in low lite. that trip to Cocos it was often green w/suspended particulate matter on those locatons . The DMs said right at that mixing line of the blue water w/ the algae water actually brought more sharks in while in crystal clear water water fewer sharks covered the seamounts. Makes since as offshore fishing always is better if you are on the the mixing lines of the water. Clean Green particle water means flora and fauna ,which means little fish feeding and bigger ones feeding on the smaller fish and so on up the food chain. Theres not enough Beer to tell all the stories from the Cocos Island trip . It is quite an adventure into large schools of everything. THE place for big stuff .I found it is Great place for the 15mm lens
I got a lot better wide angle shots of the hammerheads in Cocos w/ out a strobe and using the asa800 film . was truley painless in 100+ fsw . even hand holding the strobe way up and to the left using a modeling lite to target the sharks, the shots had much less backskatter w/ no strobe. and w/no strobe I could shoot more frames as the hammerheads ghosted in and out of the dive area.I personally have come to enjoy using the nikonos 15mm not fusin w/ the strobe on panoramic type locatons. According to the literature, the sony nex 5 seems to be able to shoot well in low lite. that trip to Cocos it was often green w/suspended particulate matter on those locatons . The DMs said right at that mixing line of the blue water w/ the algae water actually brought more sharks in while in crystal clear water water fewer sharks covered the seamounts. Makes since as offshore fishing always is better if you are on the the mixing lines of the water. Clean Green particle water means flora and fauna ,which means little fish feeding and bigger ones feeding on the smaller fish and so on up the food chain. Theres not enough Beer to tell all the stories from the Cocos Island trip . It is quite an adventure into large schools of everything. THE place for big stuff .I found it is Great place for the 15mm lens
