Wet
* Olympus C5050 (my 7th Oly Digital in the last 6 years)
* PT-0015 Housing
* Inon D180 Strobe with Fibre Optic Kit
* Fisheye Tray & Handle (forever grateful to Dee for the tip)
* Ultralight Control Systems Arms
* Olympus PCU-01 UW Close Up Lens
* 512 and 256 CF cards (and one useless 32 XD freckle)
*
PDT
Dry
* The Olympus C5050 (duh...)
* Modified Stroboframe Flip 350
* Olympus FL40 Flash (Lumiquest ProMax and Westcott mini-soft box... THE BOMB)
* Olympus 05 Flash Cable (shoe to shoe... FINALLY they make one)
* Raynox Lens Tube (41 - 52) with B+W 1.5 Skylight
* Filters (B+W & Hoya HMC mostly... ND's, Grad ND's, Circular and warm Polarizers, etc.)
* Gitzo Explorer Tripod w/ Manfroto Magnesum head
* Tons of Photoflex litediscs, multi discs and all that rot
* Lowepro & Manfroto bags
* A zillion Sanyo 2300 NiMH batts and a couple of
Lightning Chargers
Did I mention that eBay rules?
Still working out my transportation system for my Wet rig. I saw Dee's, and I like that set up. I'm not a big fan of Pelican cases for this stuff - too James Bond and simply too big. I may get the LowePro splash-proof backpack for this. I want to remain a one-take Jake and be able to get on and off a 3 day boat in one trip (Dive Bag, Tank, clothes) so a Backpack photo bag may be in my future. I've always used a top-entry shoulder bag for the Land rig.. but deployment isn't an issuse for the Wet rig - just transportation. I would love to know how you folks are getting your rigs to the dive sites.
This Sunday will be my first day in the water with the wet rig.
I'm in the process of setting up the 4 MyMode settings - 1 for land, and the other three for underwater. The improved menu functions on the C5050 are just smokin. Here is a good
site for some assistance and recommendations on setting up your MyMode settings. There is so much good stuff here you just need to go and explore... its great.
Another great site I found is
here. Not a lot of techie stuff...just some sound basics about UW shooting. Well, it sounded good to me.
I've emmassed a huge list of sites, references and URL's - it might be helpful soon for us to start a thread (like Saf did) where we can put our fav references and links into... so we can share the stuff we've found.
This is gonna be fun.
Ken
Wet Rig... quick pic the other night
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