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Yesterday was a bad day for me!
It started out ordinary when I was approaching the site which is a conservation zone to see a pair of free divers spearfishing in the protection zone.
So I took some photo's of their vessel to report them to the marine park authorities, that's when I noticed the camera lens was in the manual focus setting so I hastily open her up and set it to A, and replugged in the hydrophone jack in my Aquatica housing (it's a fantastic housing, this was my fault!!!).
Well after anchoring and suiting up for the dive, I get my lady to pass my rig to me. I lower it into the water to see bubbles and then the alarm......HOLY FREEKIN SHEET!!!!!!
I quickly passed it back up to my girl, stripped my bp/w and tank, got into the boat pulled off the port to let it drain the camera housing while keep it port down.
I noticed that the mic jack flap was jabbed in between the housing shells, but not sticking right thru, only on the inside of the housing to the o-ring in the centre of the sealing surfaces.
So in my hasty inspection it appeared to be OK, it wasn't the case it flooded thru quickly.
So the lesson in this Catastrophe is- if you own this camera in this particular housing(I still love my housing, it's perfectly cleaned out and sprayed up with some Inox), is either remove or tape your hydrophone jack to the inside of the housing somewhere it won't interfere with the any of the left side controls and leave the mic jack flap nicely shut or be super careful you slip that flap forward into the front side of the housing as you side the camera into the front half on the locating rails (maybe tape that flap forward onto the camera body??????)
What I usually do at home the night before my dive, along with checking/greasing the O-rings and housing closing surfaces, battery installation and a new one now for me is to turn the camera on to see if it's functioning fully and correctly.
This has slowed my plans for my next phase of being an amateur underwater photographer not stopped me, I was going for a new tokina WA lens and a big dome port early next year, now it's back to square one to buy the camera and 60mm nikkor lens again
The tragic irony is that the factory in Thailand which made the camera is now flooded also.........so many dead D7000'S
Safe diving to all,
Ozzydamo ps- to top it all off the water viz was a pea green 7m!
Yesterday was a bad day for me!
It started out ordinary when I was approaching the site which is a conservation zone to see a pair of free divers spearfishing in the protection zone.
So I took some photo's of their vessel to report them to the marine park authorities, that's when I noticed the camera lens was in the manual focus setting so I hastily open her up and set it to A, and replugged in the hydrophone jack in my Aquatica housing (it's a fantastic housing, this was my fault!!!).
Well after anchoring and suiting up for the dive, I get my lady to pass my rig to me. I lower it into the water to see bubbles and then the alarm......HOLY FREEKIN SHEET!!!!!!
I quickly passed it back up to my girl, stripped my bp/w and tank, got into the boat pulled off the port to let it drain the camera housing while keep it port down.
I noticed that the mic jack flap was jabbed in between the housing shells, but not sticking right thru, only on the inside of the housing to the o-ring in the centre of the sealing surfaces.
So in my hasty inspection it appeared to be OK, it wasn't the case it flooded thru quickly.
So the lesson in this Catastrophe is- if you own this camera in this particular housing(I still love my housing, it's perfectly cleaned out and sprayed up with some Inox), is either remove or tape your hydrophone jack to the inside of the housing somewhere it won't interfere with the any of the left side controls and leave the mic jack flap nicely shut or be super careful you slip that flap forward into the front side of the housing as you side the camera into the front half on the locating rails (maybe tape that flap forward onto the camera body??????)
What I usually do at home the night before my dive, along with checking/greasing the O-rings and housing closing surfaces, battery installation and a new one now for me is to turn the camera on to see if it's functioning fully and correctly.
This has slowed my plans for my next phase of being an amateur underwater photographer not stopped me, I was going for a new tokina WA lens and a big dome port early next year, now it's back to square one to buy the camera and 60mm nikkor lens again
The tragic irony is that the factory in Thailand which made the camera is now flooded also.........so many dead D7000'S
Safe diving to all,
Ozzydamo ps- to top it all off the water viz was a pea green 7m!
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