C-60 + housing - any tips?

[lostinspace]

Hi folks,
we've just got a C60+housing (so please dont tell us we shouldnt have! :11: ) and Sea&Sea strobe.
Does anyone have this or a similar set-up and or can give any advice about general settings to use u/w?
cheers,
lostinspace

 

[Travisc]

Hold real still when you take the photos. I previously had the C50 and had some blurry photos, but then moved up to the C5050 but the learning curve got a lot higher.

Travis

Hi folks,
we've just got a C60+housing (so please dont tell us we shouldnt have! :11: ) and Sea&Sea strobe.
Does anyone have this or a similar set-up and or can give any advice about general settings to use u/w?
cheers,
lostinspace

 

[ReyeR]

Hi folks,
we've just got a C60+housing (so please dont tell us we shouldnt have! :11: ) and Sea&Sea strobe.
Does anyone have this or a similar set-up and or can give any advice about general settings to use u/w?
cheers,
lostinspace

I'm not sure which S&S strobe you've got with it but a good place to start with strobe photography is:

• first thing you do is turn the 'All Reset' OFF so camera doesn't reset all your settings back to the factory defaults everytime you turn it on
• ISO 64
• SHQ
• use an external focus-assist light (like a diffused dive torch) to avoid out-of-focus pictures
• for close-up work (about 20 cm - 50 cm) use macro mode
• Auto White Balance
• M (manual shooting mode)
• Flash ON lightning SLOW)
• a good setting to start with is a shutterspeed of 1/125 and F-stop of 5.6
• use the shutterspeed to control ambient light and motion blur and
• F-stop for the Depth-Of-Field and strobe exposure

If you don't want to use M shooting mode then for P and A set the flash to Fill-in lightning symbol) which will give you better shutterspeeds (and better apertures in P). Use lightning SLOW) for S shooting mode.