Bill let me
borrow his “big boy” camera for two dives this morning. That is soooooo generousl. He set it up so that all I had to do was fire
a lever to take the shot and adjust the strobes for lighting.
On the first
dive, he put in an angled viewfinder.
OMG, it took me forever to find anything, even if the subject was right
in front of the lens. I’m told that it
gets much easier and you get used to it but I was spending five minutes just
setting up for a shot!
On the second
dive, he changed it to the straight viewfinder, but even that I found
challenging to put my mask right up to it and angle it just right and fire off
the shot. I much prefer the display
screen of my camera. I was also
challenged by the float on the camera keeping it in the horizontal mode – it
also messed with my buoyancy and was a bit challenging to get used to.
What do you
think of the image quality though? Any
different on Nudis 26 - 28? They were shot
will Bill’s camera, not mine.
I am totally in
the market for a new camera, so this was really helpful for me to try this
out! I am waiting for the housing setups
to get smaller though, not bigger!!!
26 - Thecacera
pacifica
27 - Sagaminopteron psychedelicum
This one is not only super cool, it has the best name. :) See how small it its? Those are grains of sand it is crawling around on. That's why I want a better camera set up.
28 - Glossodoris sp. 1
29 - Hypselodoris apolegma
30 - “Taringa” halgerda
31 - Hypselodoris bullocki
32 - Phyllidia varicosa
33 - Chelidonura amoena
34 - Chromodoris hintuanensis
35 - Marionia sp. 13
36 - Flabellina riwo
37 - Asteronotus spongicolus
The thing on the left is actually a flatworm, but the thing on the right is a nudi.
38 - Platydoris cinerobranchiata
There are two of these! I found them (or more like they found me, they were so big). I find it's even more special when I find ones on my own.
39 - Trapania cf . Euryeia
40 - Gymnodoris citrine
You can almost see through this one!
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