Sealife DC500

[EcoDiving]

Has anyone used this camera? Can you please tell me how the results are and if it has a good price vs quality evaluation?

[Papa Bear]

I teach people who buy them often, they now have the D600, which has a better layout and more functions. The Elite kit is very nice for the money about $1000.00 and has all you need. The following picture was taken with the older D310 with single Flash.http://www.twotankedproductions.com/images/600_IMAG0009_AC_shark_and_Skindivers.jpg

[EcoDiving]

I bought the DC600! I'll start using it next sunday during a dive in our Dutch Grevelingen. Maybe I dare to show you some pictures here afterwards ...

[Netdrum]

Hello there,

Have just discovered this forum today while reading some posts on rebreather world. I am very new to the whole idea of photography on land or underwater. A while a ago I got myself a DC500 and just point and click at evrything I see and hope I get good results.

Since I stared reading the fourm I have learned so much already about manual white blance and tips on imporving the quality of my photos.

Anyway here is a link to some of the photos I took with my sealife camera just a few weeks ago in the Red Sea

Red Sea Oct 2007 (http://picasaweb.google.com/netdrum/redsea2007)

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can improve that would be great. Find the Red Sea a great place to take pictures compared to shooting in Irish waters cause of the brighness and clearity of the water.

[sorvju-f]

Hello there,

Have just discovered this forum today while reading some posts on rebreather world. I am very new to the whole idea of photography on land or underwater. A while a ago I got myself a DC500 and just point and click at evrything I see and hope I get good results.

Since I stared reading the fourm I have learned so much already about manual white blance and tips on imporving the quality of my photos.

Anyway here is a link to some of the photos I took with my sealife camera just a few weeks ago in the Red Sea

Red Sea Oct 2007 (http://picasaweb.google.com/netdrum/redsea2007)

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can improve that would be great. Find the Red Sea a great place to take pictures compared to shooting in Irish waters cause of the brighness and clearity of the water.

Wellcome to member Netdrum!

Nice collection of memories you have! It looks like you visited anyhow Thistlegorm. Other wreck I did not recognise ( the upside down one ).
And you dived with Nitrox!

I have visited Red Sea already ten times and maybe after couple of week No 11 is realizing!

Taking picture underwater (as well as top side ) is playing with light..sun..strobe...ambient...torch and adjusting in camera shutter speed...white balance...apperature..sharpness. Just play these different way and you will learn more.

You can see yourself that your most impressive like a picture ( maybe not like memories ) are very close to subject like the masked buterfly fishes ( the yellow ones ). Stay at the beginning close and when making more pics, where the object is more far it might be time to invest to exteral adjustable strobe.

Jukka

[Netdrum]

Wellcome to member Netdrum!

Thank you Jukka

Nice collection of memories you have! It looks like you visited anyhow Thistlegorm. Other wreck I did not recognise ( the upside down one ).
And you dived with Nitrox!

Yeah dived the Thistlegorm including a night dive, which was the best night dive I ever done. The other wreck which was upside down is called the Dunraven, great dive and drift along kingston reef after the wreck

I have visited Red Sea already ten times and maybe after couple of week No 11 is realizing!

Enjoy; will be going back too, but think scappa flow will be my next trip to help build up hours and experience on my rebreather. Scappa can be dark and will be challenge to take photos there.

Taking picture underwater (as well as top side ) is playing with light..sun..strobe...ambient...torch and adjusting in camera shutter speed...white balance...apperature..sharpness. Just play these different way and you will learn more.

You can see yourself that your most impressive like a picture ( maybe not like memories ) are very close to subject like the masked buterfly fishes ( the yellow ones ). Stay at the beginning close and when making more pics, where the object is more far it might be time to invest to exteral adjustable strobe.

Jukka

I can see ok that the closer I got the better the results, looking forward to my next dive and playing around with some of the manual camera settings, using the strobe is fustrating at times as some of the time the photos end up getting over exposed or just too dark, but I am improving slowly. I have read a lot here about shooting in RAW mode whats you thoughs on this?

Thanks for the advice and help

[sorvju-f]

Thank you Jukka

I have read a lot here about shooting in RAW mode whats you thoughs on this?

Thanks for the advice and help

I am not shooting anything else than RAW...you are able to adjust whitebalance little bit with that and your pictures will keep unchanged in raw mode. usually I shoot RAW+JPG to see if there is reason to delete something immediately.

When you are shooting RAW you need program to finalize pics.
Most used are photoshop or lightroom. Usually cameraproducers delivers cd for doing that with their own programs.

Jukka