I'm struggling with photo's lately with the original site I used to host them collapsing and all pictures lost. So now I'm attempting to use the Google system. I don't easily see how to simply add photo's to a post as I have in the past. There only seems to be this link that is available?
https://goo.gl/photos/i6hu7wcxEAc5rBQbAAnyway, aside from the struggle to manage this, I wanted to share some dive pictures from a week ago that I took with the Olympus TG-4 point and shoot waterproof camera. I mounted this waterproof camera in an Ikelite waterproof enclosure. Yep.... I'm a paranoid sort and I know I will exceed 100 feet deep so I wanted the extra pressure protection of the Ikelite. I also have a tray on the bottom that holds both the external flash and the focus and video lights. These pictures were all between 35 and 67 feet deep, the water was 49-51 degrees and visibility was from very poor at 3-4 feet to just plain poor at 10-12 feet. The Black and white octopus photo is quite a lot like it would appear at 65 feet deep without a light. More or less invisible. Most color is absorbed and dies below 30-40 feet, by 60 plus it's dark and cold and blue grey. However a bright hand held light brings everything back to life like a magic wand. As you can see in the full color photo right next to it.
Neverthrless the pictures from this rather inexpensive little dive camera surprised me. The screen on the back is bright and clear and allows good visibility even with my dive mask on. The controls on the Ikelite enclosure are small but well laid out and easily usable even with the 5mm neoprene wetsuit gloves on. The really nice function of the camera is a single button to take video. So switching from video to photo is just a single press of the record button. Quite nice in the dark deep water of puget sound with thick gloves on!
The battery on the focus light runs full power for 80 minutes. Nice to have that spare battery for the two tank dives. New air tank and new battery. You don't need a seperate dive light. Just fin along with the camera focus light on the whole time. Now the problem is that the camera takes so much of my focus I need to be tenatious about checking my air pressure! Good thing my dive buddy wife can now dive with me so between the two of us at least one will pay attention to remaining air pressure!
Having this camera has added a huge new dimension to the scuba experience!
