Josh,
Lessee now. Here's a checklist of mine --
Replace all o-rings, even if they look good.
Housing underwater @ the max depth you're gonna hit if you can -- without
camera. At least the 1st time you use the housing.
VERY lightly talc the rubber -- it'll keep it from sticking to itself &
housing and starting leeeetle tiny tears in the rubber
Sea Drops or spit on the glass/plastic in front of the lens. While the
camera isn't creating heat like your face in a mask does, spending enough
time at one temp/depth to equalize the housing interior temp with the water
temp and then moving to a different depth/temp can fog it up. Nice for
soft focus portraits, but somehow that effect doesn't look good on a blue
tang...
Check your computer (if you have one) or your watch (if you use dive
tables) to ensure you're not exceeding your limits depth-wise or time-wise.
While I'm sure your pics will look great even post-mortem, I'd rather keep
you around to pay for the processing. <g>
If the housing + camera has any positive buoyancy at all, one hand on the
shutter release and one on TOP of the camera rather than underneath. This
will help stability a bunch.
Lots of flash + high guide numbers = smaller apertures and sharper shots
and a wider coverage area. Remember that unless you're diving somewhere
like Cozumel where the viz is 300 yds, the water is gonna
reflect/scatter/mess up your exposure -- do what you can to use the OM OTF
feature -- the sensors on the flash are useless in murky water.
Have lots of fun!
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua_Putnam [SMTP:josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 10:00 AM
To: Olympus Mailing List
Subject: [OM] Any scuba divers on the list?
Last month, under pressure from an impending tax refund, I
splurged on a used Ikelite housing for OM-1 and 1n. This seemed
like the perfect way to combine two hideously expensive habits :-)
I've been told for years that I'm nuts not to buy a modern AF SLR
system -- am I even more crazy to do underwater photography with
manual focus and exposure? (Makes me think I should get a cheap,
disposable OM-10 body if it will work in the housing. If some
day I see salt water pouring in, I'd rather see it hitting an
OM-10 than an OM-1 :-)
Any other people on the list using their precious Olympus gear
underwater? Any advice for a new underwater photographer, other
than obvious things like replacing all the O-rings on a used case
so it doesn't flood the first time I use it?
--
Josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx is Joshua Putnam / P.O. Box 13220 / Burton, WA 98013
"My other bike is a car."
http://www.wolfenet.com/~josh/
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