First video light with Olympus TG4 ... which settings?

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Hello,

since the Olympus TG4 cannot set shutter speed manually (only F stops) I struggle to find the right settings. I've been shooting for a year now without a light and set the camera to either auto ISO (shallow) or high ISO (deep water), everything else on Auto. Now I finally got a video light (Sea Dragon 2500) and tried in the pool (5 m depth, indoor, at night, low light). The results were not so great. I either overexposed the shot, got nice colors but a cyan colored backdrop (is that normal?) or the exposure dropped to 1/60 blurrying the whole thing :( Which settings would you use? The camera can only set F stops but not the speed. I'm also not sure about the white balance. Do you use the underwater setting or daylight?
 
There is a really good discussion of the use of video lights for the TG5 on the Backscatter website.
Bill
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/teric/

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