thespoons
Contributor
I've been reading thread after thread here and am quite overwhelmed. I have an e-pl2 and a pt-ep03 housing on the way. I'm looking to get a tray/arm and a strobe. I'm just getting started in serious underwater photography (last trip was a disposable) but I can't afford to drain the bank account this year. I need to ease into it and start out with the basics. I'd love stuff like the Zen dome, the wet macro, the nice strobes and focus lights, etc. But that's going to have to be a multi-year project since it's OUR bank account and not MY bank account.
So I'm hoping some of the nice folks here might want to give me some suggestions on what to start out with for a tray/arm and a strobe. We're vacation divers, as we live in Minnesota and my wife doesn't do cold water or wrecks. That means until we hit the jackpot we're likely to get at most one scuba trip a year. Last time we went to Bonaire and plan to go again many times in the future. This year it's going to be Key Largo, though.
I cringe to say this, but I'm trying to get the tray/arm/strobe all for under $500. Hell, under $400 would make the marital sales pitch much more feasible. Is that even remotely possible? I want to get stuff that will work for now but may also be stepping stones in the future. It'd be best not to buy something that is a dead end. But, again, I don't know if that's even possible on a budget.
What do you folks think?
So I'm hoping some of the nice folks here might want to give me some suggestions on what to start out with for a tray/arm and a strobe. We're vacation divers, as we live in Minnesota and my wife doesn't do cold water or wrecks. That means until we hit the jackpot we're likely to get at most one scuba trip a year. Last time we went to Bonaire and plan to go again many times in the future. This year it's going to be Key Largo, though.
I cringe to say this, but I'm trying to get the tray/arm/strobe all for under $500. Hell, under $400 would make the marital sales pitch much more feasible. Is that even remotely possible? I want to get stuff that will work for now but may also be stepping stones in the future. It'd be best not to buy something that is a dead end. But, again, I don't know if that's even possible on a budget.
What do you folks think?