Mrs Fic
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Hey guys. Back from an awesome live aboard with just 'the girls' on Cat Ppalu to Exuma Cayes, Bahamas. BUT, flooded my camera on 2nd day!! 
I guess I was in such a hurry to get out on the dive deck after replacing the lithium battery between dives, that I didn't get the housing latched properly. If you are not careful, you can latch it all the way down without 'catching' it properly before flipping over the cam and snapping it down into place. No debris or pinching was found on the o-ring or it's matching counterpart on thd lid. I don't think I put it in the rinse tank this time, went straight to diving area for DM to pass it down to me after entering the water. Upon descending to about 10 ft, I started turning it on when I noticed 1/4 inch of water in the bottom of the LCD window. After a choice expletive, I ascended quickly and gave it to the DM, who dried it off, took it out and laid it all out to dry immediately. But it was of course too late.
The redeeming thing was my friend having the same camera but with the digital (yellow) strobe. She felt task loaded already, fiddling with her new canister light, and that my photography skills were better to date, anyway...so, she let me use her camera the rest of the week in my own housing (which BTW went without incident).
Got some good shots, but waiting to have time to edit them (or to talk my hubby into editing them with PS, with which he is getting proficient and can do a better job than I ever imagined). Can't wait to show you my shots of rays, sharks, the blue hole, etc! My biggest limitation with the setup was trying to get the strobe aimed effectively into dark holes in the coral heads, and getting shots on night dives. For the night dives, I had to hold a small light aimed at the subject to get the camera focused, then move it away and depress the shutter button while trying to hold it steady enough! Any ideas on night UW photography with this camera? There has got to be a better way!!!
I guess I was in such a hurry to get out on the dive deck after replacing the lithium battery between dives, that I didn't get the housing latched properly. If you are not careful, you can latch it all the way down without 'catching' it properly before flipping over the cam and snapping it down into place. No debris or pinching was found on the o-ring or it's matching counterpart on thd lid. I don't think I put it in the rinse tank this time, went straight to diving area for DM to pass it down to me after entering the water. Upon descending to about 10 ft, I started turning it on when I noticed 1/4 inch of water in the bottom of the LCD window. After a choice expletive, I ascended quickly and gave it to the DM, who dried it off, took it out and laid it all out to dry immediately. But it was of course too late.The redeeming thing was my friend having the same camera but with the digital (yellow) strobe. She felt task loaded already, fiddling with her new canister light, and that my photography skills were better to date, anyway...so, she let me use her camera the rest of the week in my own housing (which BTW went without incident).
Got some good shots, but waiting to have time to edit them (or to talk my hubby into editing them with PS, with which he is getting proficient and can do a better job than I ever imagined). Can't wait to show you my shots of rays, sharks, the blue hole, etc! My biggest limitation with the setup was trying to get the strobe aimed effectively into dark holes in the coral heads, and getting shots on night dives. For the night dives, I had to hold a small light aimed at the subject to get the camera focused, then move it away and depress the shutter button while trying to hold it steady enough! Any ideas on night UW photography with this camera? There has got to be a better way!!!
You'll have to send your friend a nice bottle of wine to enjoy with a little slideshow of the images!
of course I'm going to flood it when it's new and I'm not used to dealing with it!
