who are divers on CS?

[beivied]

Beivied, dun buy any more memory until you practice and shoot more!! No pt having the most-est and best-est equipment if you have no money left to dive & shoot. Otherwise you end up being an equipment collector. Always bring the TV cable so you can check pix on TV and delete blurred shots.

i thought about that, thats why i pulled back on the x drive thingie. friend was asking me to buy bcd reg and strobe. i told him i will become a well equipped diver who cant dive for the next two years :bsmilie:

 

[frisky]

If you stay at Pulau Sipadan Resort (PSR) or Borneo, you're right at the drop-off, so you can do unlimited shore dives - no need speed boat.

Same thing for Kapalai.

Beivied, dun buy any more memory until you practice and shoot more!! No pt having the most-est and best-est equipment if you have no money left to dive & shoot. Otherwise you end up being an equipment collector. Always bring the TV cable so you can check pix on TV and delete blurred shots.

Between buying equipment and paying for the activity, I think as far as possible always go for the activity (unless you MUST have the equipment to go for the activity). Alternatively, if you can get your hands on a laptop, can bring along (quite troublesome but useful). Also doubles as your x-drive........

Frisky, deep blue's got good deals - i went with them in Jan (DM called Ann Travis Siau?). Dun shy - practice yr PS, any questions just PM!!

Yea, will check with them again........Was dealing with Ann.........
Sure will do.....

 

[frisky]

ya. budget conscious diver like me need to save money to go dive dive dive! cannot foresee when's my next trip, after the coming LOB ... hai ... i wanna go sipadan leh. but from my calculations, that would mean no diving for the next one year liao.

i thought about that, thats why i pulled back on the x drive thingie. friend was asking me to buy bcd reg and strobe. i told him i will become a well equipped diver who cant dive for the next two years :bsmilie:

bcd, reg & strobe wait until you are sure you'll diving regularly before buying. camera and x-drive can still use if you don't dive. I would sure like to see you wearing bcd and breathing through the reg, taking picture with your uw housing and strobe at the next UW seed :bsmilie::bsmilie::bsmilie:

 

[lanxx]

ya. budget conscious diver like me need to save money to go dive dive dive! cannot foresee when's my next trip, after the coming LOB ... hai ... i wanna go sipadan leh. but from my calculations, that would mean no diving for the next one year liao.

dun have, then wait loh, like me, furthest I have done is Bali.
Then the rest all in West Malaysia, Singapore and only a few off bintan.
U say leh? I dive quite alot compared to other divers and have yet to even reach these places due to $$$.

So just go at the pace that is comfortable to you. Or not you will suffer long run.

Hoping to go Manado next yr (die die want to go)

 

[kng]

i thought about that, thats why i pulled back on the x drive thingie. friend was asking me to buy bcd reg and strobe. i told him i will become a well equipped diver who cant dive for the next two years :bsmilie:

Beivied, like Lanxx & frisky said, slowly save. Dun buy BCD/reg/dive equip until you are sure you intend to continue to dive for the next 5 yrs. Try to go on more trips first to build up yr experience. Use yr 512M CF until you cannot tahan the space shortage b4 buying anything else!

Lanxx, hope the cheap airfares to manado continue for next yr!! I also never been! ;p

 

[sehsuan]

and no one mentioned the tons and mountains of CD-Rs, and hard disks just to store the photos? :bsmilie:

 

[frisky]

and no one mentioned the tons and mountains of CD-Rs, and hard disks just to store the photos? :bsmilie:

Er.... can use your PC/laptop's hard disk. But PLS BACKUP to CD, another PC or use raid........

 

[beivied]

wa, so many response ... dont worry la. ^_^ i must be insane then i will go out to buy those stuff when i dont even have enough money to go on trips man. 512mb is really quite bo bian then i buy one lo. trying to experiment raw editing on photoshop,but somehow it cannot recognise my .orf files at all. i can only open the pictures on camedia..... anyone editing raw on photoshop now?
maybe i should post this qtn on a new non diver thread too....

 

[scotsman]

wa, so many response ... dont worry la. ^_^ i must be insane then i will go out to buy those stuff when i dont even have enough money to go on trips man. 512mb is really quite bo bian then i buy one lo. trying to experiment raw editing on photoshop,but somehow it cannot recognise my .orf files at all. i can only open the pictures on camedia..... anyone editing raw on photoshop now?
maybe i should post this qtn on a new non diver thread too....

U need the plug in for Photoshop to recognise the RAW files...

I think it should be found on the CD that came with the camera.

 

[lanxx]

wa, so many response ... dont worry la. ^_^ i must be insane then i will go out to buy those stuff when i dont even have enough money to go on trips man. 512mb is really quite bo bian then i buy one lo. trying to experiment raw editing on photoshop,but somehow it cannot recognise my .orf files at all. i can only open the pictures on camedia..... anyone editing raw on photoshop now?
maybe i should post this qtn on a new non diver thread too....

not found on the cd. u need a olympus raw plugin for raw.
think I have it and installed it. Cannot rem if it works, think so, coz I am still not uisng raw yet

 

[beivied]

having problems installing.. at first i thought installed liao le. trying again.

 

[lanxx]

Recommended custom settings for 5050

Hope this helps! :angel:

 

[beivied]

managed to install already ... guess what, i actually forgot to key in the product serial number, hahah..

 

[fastwatch]

all divers....

hope you don't mind me OT abit. i'm looking for your used seiko or citizen divers...if you are upgrading to a suunto or better dive watch...do drop me a pm.

thanks!

 

[beivied]

Recommended custom settings for 5050

Hope this helps! :angel:

sorry ah, now then have a bit of time to go through the website... quite helpful, but not so much becos you have already told me what settings to put, haha... but maybe need a bit of adjustment, cos one of my nemos was overexposed, looked like a holy nemo. otherwise than that, the rest are quite ok. how did you adjust the pic of your pigmy seahorse by the way? curious to learn ^_^

 

[beivied]

Recommended custom settings for 5050

Hope this helps! :angel:

i forgot to say. i was not able to install the raw plugin with adobe photoshop version 7.0 final. think need version 7.0.1. but i was able to install it with photoshop elements version 2.0, though the description of the plug in said only for photoshop version 7.0.1.

 

[beivied]

third post of the day, hahaha... now lunchtime ah can post i post liao ...

i wanna try a few things on my camera, which maybe lanxx or other divers with c5050z find it unnecessary ... i wanna try and see the effect of raw editing on pics with filtered light, and manual one touch wb (which means i need a clean white card when i dive).

being a diver in poverty ah, and stranded on land most of the time, i'd like to try how i can take uw pics with higher color accuracy without selling my blood and hair to buy a strobe.

what i wanna ask is, do you fellas have any suggestions on how to get the type of lighting condition uw 20-30m without having to go into the sea? i.e. so i can just do it in a pail of water etc.

hope non fainted or vomitted their lunch and blood out after reading this post.... :embrass: just curious to see if it can be done.

 

[kthan]

bcd, reg & strobe wait until you are sure you'll diving regularly before buying. camera and x-drive can still use if you don't dive. I would sure like to see you wearing bcd and breathing through the reg, taking picture with your uw housing and strobe at the next UW seed :bsmilie::bsmilie::bsmilie:

This being an underwater photographer forum, I would like to point out that you got to be pretty serious about diving to take up underwater photography. The reg (and maybe BC) is a life supporting equipment. wondering how you can trust rental gear (esp those from Malaysia and Singapore) since your life depended on it. I have seen some instances of rental equipment failure.

Strobes, extra CF card and X-drive can probably wait till you get yr reg and BC, since you prob don't need them as urgently as when u go diving.

 

[frisky]

This being an underwater photographer forum, I would like to point out that you got to be pretty serious about diving to take up underwater photography.

I guess it will boil down to whether the discussion is about divers taking photos underwater or photographers going diving :think:

I certainly belong to the 2nd category. And I suspect many others are. :blah:

It used to be that divers got pretty good and serious before they are taking photos, esp with the very high price of the older underwater flim camera. With the advent of relatively cheap underwater housing and the wide used of digital camera, even some photography enthusiast just completed their open water dives are bringing cameras like A70 and other consumer camera into the dives. All it takes is a underwater housing for their digicam, and the guts to risk it. :bsmilie:

The reg (and maybe BC) is a life supporting equipment. wondering how you can trust rental gear (esp those from Malaysia and Singapore) since your life depended on it. I have seen some instances of rental equipment failure.

Strobes, extra CF card and X-drive can probably wait till you get yr reg and BC, since you prob don't need them as urgently as when u go diving.

Sure, rental equipment do fail. So do personal equipment. Part of the open water training, the first training any diver has gone through, has already cover how to cope with that, although possibly not in as much detail as some would like.

We all know that regulator requires a substancial amount of skilled maintenance, and I would believe that the shop will keep their equipment in better shape than if I own a personal reg and not knowing how to maintain it.

If you are a serious diver that dive frequently and know your equipment well and just want to try photography, then the reg/bc would probably be a more important item, esp if you are those that like to push the limit.

If you are a photography enthusiast looking to bring your photography hobby/skill underwater, CF cards and X-drive becomes a much higher priority.

So decide if you are a photographer underwater or a diver taking photos and you should have your answer. :bigeyes:

 

[scotsman]

After reading all your postings on photographers who are divers or divers who are photographers. I have to make a comment.

I know quite a few newly open water certified divers, buy their underwater housing/camera and take it on their next dive. I would highly advice against it. Since diving do carry some serious risk, I think the best is to get your diving skills right First. Even if u do survive, doing it, the corals and underwater life may not. I've seen divers who can't get their buoyancy right and tend to bounce on corals and still wanting to take photos. Worse of all, I've seen these hold on to anything they can, to get that bouyancy without thinking that they are actually killing the coral or slamming into something.

My advice is to get your diving skills, particularly your bouyancy control right, and move about expertly in the water first before even attempting to do underwater photography.