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They've finally announced the D7200 (still no D400). Is it different enough, or should people be snapping up cheap D7100's? New version uses the same sensor as the D7100, but has much greater low light capability, way more shots per second, new video performance, faster processor and things...

My wife bought me a Sola 600 Photo for Xmas in December 2010. It worked great for 3 years, but recently had some issues. When the charge lights wouldn't come on, I went online and read the very helpful L & M instructions for getting the light out of travel mode. When that didn't work, I...

We saw a new Jelly in Carmel last weekend. It's unlike anything I've ever seen and I can't find it in the Pacific Pelagic invertibrates book or on any web site. Hope someone can give me an ID. It was about 5-6 inches in diameter and didn't appear to have tentacles.

Is there anyway other than trial and error that I can test the ttl performance of a newer non film strobe on my F100? The Sea & Sea NX100 pro housing puts out a five pin signal with the F100 that my YS-110 responds to, but I have no idea if the output is adjusting or if it just flashes the...

My housing is down for the next 8 weeks getting a new shutter release shaft (oops! rolled out of the tailgate) so I've been playing with my Nikon F100 and NX-100 pro housing. Got my first 36 shots and....can't find anyone to develop them! Costco took their machines out a couple of months ago...

A few pics from recent dives. Vis has been ugly for months, but it's finally starting to open up some. Snails on Kelp Young Lingcod eating an Octopus for lunch. School of Young of the Year with Gorgonian and Metridium Ling with Giant Anemone and Metridium Sunflower star eating a squid...

Dropped down for a beautiful dive in stunning blue water in Carmel Saturday. Took my first picture to test my settings-a little dark, reset the aperture. Went to take my second picture and "Oh crud! (expletive deleted) Why is there a bubble in my viewfinder? Tapped my buddy on the shoulder...

Trying to find a replacement LH grip for NX-100 housing. Any NX or MDX will fit.

Well, it looks like Nikon is abandoning DX by going to FX with DX compatibility. The new D600 is smaller and lighter than their other FX, supports DX lenses and format. Full frame HD video in 3 different shutter speeds, 25,600 ISO, down to 50 ISO. Body seems to be completely redesigned, and...

I had my first ever camera housing leak this weekend. I noticed on our second dive that the port on my MDX-D300 was fogged up. Then I noticed fogging on the viewer window and the settings window as well. I wrongly assumed that I had left the camera in the sun too long, although it was in my...

Just got an ad from Adorama with J2 and UW housing (neither yet available) Nikon WP-N1 Waterproof Case (Camera Housing) for Nikon 1 J1 and J2 3689 Nikon 1 J2 Mirrorless Camera with 10-30mm (2.7x) Lens, Black 27573 Not much info. Looks like housing has a permanent port that really only allows...

Aargh! Three weeks to Alaska live-aboard and one of my YS-110's is dying. Halfway through the dive, the strobe just shuts off. I recharged the batteries, it happened again. It will restart later, but then die during the dive. I bought a new set of batteries yesterday, charged them to make...

Here are some recent pictures from Monterey Bay Dendronotus Iris (Rainbow nudibranch) swimming Biggest Cabezon I've ever seen Fred and Ethel Wolf Eel with their longtime house guest, a fast growing juvenile Blue Rockfish Blue and Copper Rockfish on Anchors 2&3 on the deep shale A...

So far this year, we've had an amazing variety of Jellyfish and Salps in the bay. Safety stops have been great fun, chasing around tiny, mostly transparent creatures and trying to focus on something akin to a piece of saran wrap under water. We've also had some bigger versions of some we've...

It's been a busy couple of months. Between Bali and the Channel Islands the first and last weeks of July, we dove every weekend in Monterey. About 2000 pictures that have taken me a month to finish processing and posting. Here are a few from July in Monterey. Juvenile Black & Yellow...

I've had some small scratches in my Sea & Sea fisheye dome for a while. Looking through the viewfinder, everything looks small and distant at 10mm, so I keep shoving it into rocks trying to get closer to subjects. Until now it hasn't been an issue. The scratches never showed. While in Bali...

These are from our last dive before we leave for Bali on Friday. Two dives, on Ballbuster where the vis was spectacular at about 75-100 ft. (of course I didn't bring my dome) and Steam engine 3 on the shale. China Rockfish Purple ringtop snail in a bed of corynactis anemone with an...

Just a few from last week. Yellow fin Fringehead (we saw three different ones on Shale Island-these two are the first and last of the three. Juvenile Olive Rockfish. This little guy was about an inch long. It was kind of green for WA, but here's a typical Monterey patch reef

Here are some pics from this month's dives. Conditions have been kind of sucky, but we've had some good dives anyway. Here's the evidence. Cadlina Flavomaculata Juvenile Bull Sculpin Dendronotus Iris munching on a tube anemone Permanent dive buddy Carol with a Sunflower star...

Another visit to the fringeheads on Shale Island A red Octopus on a Kelp frond Spanish Shawl hanging on Onchidoris Bilamellata