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  1. Chris Ross

    Sea & Sea Strobe ys-110a not firing

    With the link this time: Sea & Sea YS-03 Issue
  2. Chris Ross

    Sea & Sea Strobe ys-110a not firing

    This post has reset instructions for YS-D3 - it might be adaptable to a YS-110
  3. Chris Ross

    Question Sea and Sea YS D3 Mark 2 problems

    There was a similar report on wetpixel a few weeks back
  4. Chris Ross

    TG6. Not firing external strobes in microscope control sub-mode

    The TG-6 has a manual flash mode it should fire without pre-flash in that mode, other modes are TTL so will have pre-flash. The strobe will work just fine in either pre-flash or no pre-flash mode no matter what the camera does with a limitation. It just fires a burst at the manual setting you...
  5. Chris Ross

    Can someone explain the microscope settings at a kindergarten level? :-)

    I'm not really sure what you are doing with the zoom, but digital zoom should be turned off in the menus all it is doing is cropping for you. You might as well do that later on. As Bill says anything beyond f6.3 is using the ND filter which just sucks up light. Only reason to use it is reduce...
  6. Chris Ross

    Learning the TG-6

    There's nothing wrong with the Oly housing - it is weighted to be perfectly neutrally buoyant. If you have M67 accessories you can always get an M52 to M67 step up ring to attach to the Oly housing. BTW diopters are not much use on the TG-6. Diopters work by allowing you to focus closer but...
  7. Chris Ross

    TG 6 Flooded with Water

    Unfortunately I think it's toast - if it was powered on when it leaked then it has likely destroyed components. Repair is not an option - repair shops will not touch a camera with water damage as even if they get it working they know from experience it will be back withing the repair warranty...
  8. Chris Ross

    Learning the TG-6

    I would suggest housing any TG series camera - they are OK within their depth limits, but it's not if but when the seals are going to fail. In particular all the buttons rather than the card and battery covers. The buttons seem to use a membrane seal which fails eventually and the camera stops...
  9. Chris Ross

    Silica bags for PT-058

    Even opening your housing for a battery change, you have to watch the little droplets of water that end up on the o-ring, if they end up inside the housing, (and they usually do if they are not wiped away) they can cause fogging later. This is where the myth that leaving your housing in the...
  10. Chris Ross

    Inon S2000 Diffusers

    The 4600 and 4900K diffusers are used to warm up the flash light. If the camera is on auto WB it will shift WB towards being cooler to compensate. Because the strobe only light the subject, the background water becomes a deeper blue. Really only useful in clean blue tropical waters.
  11. Chris Ross

    [Seeking Advice]: Deliberative Terrestrial Photographer Seeks Robust First Underwater Rig

    If you are worried about expend ability of your cameras, get a housing with a vacuum system - you still need to service your o-rings meticulously , but the vacuum system tests out the seal for you. If you are getting started something in the way of a micro43 systems gets you many of the...
  12. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    I think the only realistic scenario is something that leaks when you move the controls, o-rings seal better at depth due to more pressure pushing them into the sealing surface. It is certainly possible to set off the water alarm without the vacuum alarm, one drop of water will set it off - but...
  13. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    Sounding more and more like a problem with a control - if you don't soak and work the buttons after each trip salt crystals will form inside the button well as the housing dries out - so it's possible one of them is damaged. Maintenance should include soaking for an hour in fresh water and...
  14. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    This is the vacuum system manual: http://fotografit.eu/upload_dir/pics/Nauticam/Vacuum-system/25611~25613%2C25621~25623-Vacuum-Check-and-Leak-Detection-System-manual.pdf
  15. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    Firstly, it's hard to trouble shoot long distance, so bear with multiple questions. If it's holding vacuum, it seems like you are getting a few drops of water in somewhere. You didn't confirm you were replacing cap over the red button. There's two components to the vacuum check: First you...
  16. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    It seems there is a damaged o-ring somewhere - if I recall correctly you've got the Sony A6300 in Nauticam housing using flat port/CMC-2 and 180mm dome with 60mm extension for the Zeiss 12mm lens. So you need the check main housing door o-ring and the o-rings on the port and on the adapter -...
  17. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    The other part of the spacing equation is the camera mount, mostly those mounts don't leave room for error - but it may be worth fiddling with that a little to be sure it is seated properly . Apart from that all I can suggest is fiddling with the port knob- it should be pulled back to mount the...
  18. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    They probably specify a flat port with focus knob for a reason and you need to mesh with the gear on the port. Do the teeth end up about 5-6mm forward of the gear attached to the port knob? Reading further it appears the zoom ring on the lens converts to a MF ring if the lens is in MF so there...
  19. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    It would be helpful to post a shot of the camera/lens with the zoom gear installed - the gear teeth should situated very close to the camera body to mesh with the teeth on the zoom knob on the housing. It would probably also be helpful to post a parallel post asking someone to show a photo of...
  20. Chris Ross

    Not a huge fan of my GoPro

    AF will work regardless of what type it is, the virtual image is not there it just appears to be there because of the optics, it comes from the dome acting as a negative lens. There is really no complete explanation about what goes on without getting into optical formula. If you want to try...
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