Tales From the Camera Housing: a series designed to help you prevent mistakes that may ruin your dive, camera, or footage. Mistake #3:. Don’t forget to lubricate the stupid buttons What’s Wrong with The Focus? I preset all settings for the dive, before the dive. This included manual focus settings vs. auto focus settings as …
Tales From the Camera Housing: a series designed to help you prevent mistakes that may ruin your dive, camera, or footage. Mistake 2: Trying float an underwater camera housing by trying to beat the laws physics into submission. Physics Schmysics The first clue given by the underwater camera housing was the excessive amount of flotation …
Tales From the Camera Housing: a series designed to help you prevent mistakes that may ruin your dive, camera, or footage. Mistake #1 Charging and loading the camera..2 weeks before actually diving with it. The Problem Downtime brings curiosity and time to research interesting ways to improve underwater videography and photography. I had my “next …
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Razorfish Wrasse Shallow shore diving allows for great opportunities to see Razorfish Wrasse in many areas of the Caribbean. What sets the Razorfish apart from other Wrasse is their ability to cut into the sand for protection from predators. They are also not to be mistaken with the cuisine “Razorfish Clam” which is in fact, …
The Sharptail Eel (Myrichthys Breviceps): Native to areas such as Florida, the continental coasts of the Caribbean, the Bahamas and Bermuda. Sized anywhere from 1-3 feet in length Feeds on crabs Hangs out at 5-40 feet in depth Belongs to the “snake eel” family (Ophichthidae) Hunting Behavior The Sharptail eel usually hunts during twilight to …
The learning curve for camera equipment can be sharp once you start using that equipment underwater. The environment has many factors from depth and light, white balance and red filters, and today’s subject: Focus. I’ll Just Let the Camera Do Everything With something simple like a GoPro, this is a great attitude, provided you have …
Scuba divers watch as the elusive mantis shrimp jumps and works his way around the coral.
