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From: K W Hart on 5 Aug 2010 11:22 "Stuffed Crust" <pizza(a)spam.shaftnet.org> wrote in message news:4c596667$0$4963$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > In rec.photo.equipment.35mm Superzooms Still Win <ssw(a)noaddress.org> > wrote: >> only making matters rapidly worse. Like I've always said, anyone using a >> DSLR for any reason has never proved to be very intelligent. > > Duno about that. DSLR can make pretty good flails in a pinch. They > also make excellent paperweights, and occasionally a good doorstop. > Sorry, but I must respectfully disagree with that. Most modern cameras are lightweight, making them poor candidates for paperweights or doorstops. Give me a solid, heavy 35mm mechanical SLR from the 1960's to use as a doorstop, weapon, or even to shoot photographs that will beat the pants off the output of any DSLR, at a much lower price.
From: George Kerby on 5 Aug 2010 12:05 On 8/4/10 7:43 PM, in article gm0k561te6d821cv8dn22aht7290d86ojh(a)4ax.com, "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:54:40 -0500, George Kerby > <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> As I recall, there were extra certificaion needed for cave diving. I must >> admit, I never had any interest is such things. Hell, I get weird in a MRI >> machine! I just wanted to blow bubbles and take pictures on pretty reefs. I >> have been to Flower Gardens in the Texas Gulf and Cozumel. Bonaire, I >> understand, is a destination that ant diver should add: It's on my 'Bucket >> List'. How do you like the Pennekamp Park? We're planning a trip to the Keys >> in January. > > Depends. If it's a family trip and there are non-divers in the group, > Pennekamp is a good destination. Non-divers can swim and snorkel, and > divers can shore dive. There's a reconstruction of a Spanish wreck > about 100' offshore. For a group of divers, it's too crowded with > swimmers and snorklers. It is a good compromise for a family group. > > The divers will want to go out on one of the many boats based in Key > Largo. Many of the boats will take both divers and snorklers if you > have family members that do snorkel but don't dive. The better > diving and snorkeling is a few miles offshore. I usually go to > Islamorada instead of Key Largo. However, there are good dive outfits > all down the Keys. A little pre-trip research on dive sites, > especially wrecks, is the way to go. > > January can be cold. Not cold like you have in the north, but > uncomfortably cold for snorklers and divers. Skins are a good > investment, and trap enough body-heated water to add to your comfort. > Not a dive suit, but a Lycra skin like: > http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-44/148276/Neosport-by-Henderson-Unisex-Sport-S > kin-Jumpsuit.html > About $30 in most dive shops in the area. > > I wear a full skin on every dive because I get a highly allergic > reaction to Fire Coral. I have to get shots after or the wounds swell > and fester. I have scars on my hands from Fire Coral when I forgot my > dive gloves. My wife, a non-diver, wears a skin when snorkeling to > keep her back from being sunburned. > > Here I am in a skin at Sting Ray City in the Caymans: > http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/skins.jpg > Note the "Dilbert's boss's hair". > > Thanks for the info, Tony! Sorry that this lead into a trollfeeding session :-( BTW: Are those prescription lenses built into your mask? When I started, I didn't need such, but now I would imagine it would help.
From: tony cooper on 5 Aug 2010 12:54 On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:05:52 -0500, George Kerby <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> Here I am in a skin at Sting Ray City in the Caymans: >> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/skins.jpg >> Note the "Dilbert's boss's hair". >> >> >Thanks for the info, Tony! > >Sorry that this lead into a trollfeeding session :-( > >BTW: Are those prescription lenses built into your mask? When I started, I >didn't need such, but now I would imagine it would help. Yes. I sent the mask, and my prescription, off to a company that made the lenses and glued them into the mask. Makes quite a difference. You can buy masks with corrective lenses, but only standard plus/minus corrections. My prescription is a bit different. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
From: George Kerby on 5 Aug 2010 14:18 On 8/5/10 11:54 AM, in article r1rl565npbb6d2qgc3dqccnmsbis8mvl77(a)4ax.com, "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:05:52 -0500, George Kerby > <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> Here I am in a skin at Sting Ray City in the Caymans: >>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/skins.jpg >>> Note the "Dilbert's boss's hair". >>> >>> >> Thanks for the info, Tony! >> >> Sorry that this lead into a trollfeeding session :-( >> >> BTW: Are those prescription lenses built into your mask? When I started, I >> didn't need such, but now I would imagine it would help. > > Yes. I sent the mask, and my prescription, off to a company that made > the lenses and glued them into the mask. Makes quite a difference. > > You can buy masks with corrective lenses, but only standard plus/minus > corrections. My prescription is a bit different. Gotcha. I can probably do that thru my local dive shop, I bet.
From: Peter on 5 Aug 2010 17:19
"tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:2h6m56pdto11igkulrr8ecs20pciprlssv(a)4ax.com... > > That photograph of mine was taken on slide film with a Canon AS-6 > underwater camera. The AS-6 was truly a "point-and-shoot". There > were no settings. The only choice was what ASA film to load. It had > an onboard flash, but it was for fill and not illumination. I standardized on Ektachrome for all my underwater work. It emphasized the blue background and the colors brought out by the storbe would really pop. I used a Nikkormat in an Ikelight housing, usually with a 20 or w28mm lens. Athought the strobe and its housing are gone, the housing needs only new "O" ring seals. The Nikkormat is curently in the posession of my daughter. > > The link was to a scan that I made from a print from a slide. That > "reflection" what's-his-name thinks he sees is some anomaly created > somewhere in those conversions. Those artifacts look very much like particle dispersion. It just may have been emplasized in the conversion process. > > I got some good shots with that camera in water up to 30 feet or so, > and in some deeper water in very clear conditions, but the deeper I'd > shoot the more blue the image would be. Photo labs, though, could > push those very blue images and bring in some very decent color. You > had to ask. The bottom at Sting Ray City is white sand with very > little coral, so on a sunny day shooting at 30 feet was like shooting > at 15 feet. > -- Peter |