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Review by: Rob and Joke Maller
Because we were one of the first in Holland to shoot with the
Sea&Sea DX-1G set, we would like to share and pass on our
experiences.
We are both diving for about 7 to 8 years now and have been underwater
photography enthusiasts for quite a while: one does want to show off to
family and friends right!?
Thus we started with the cheapest camera we could find: an
analog all-in-one set by
Sealife. After meddling around we managed to
get shots that still enabled people
to see what animal was on it, but it was not a major success.
Then we came in contact with divers who already owned a digicam and we
followed with a Sony P2 and the MPK-P9.
This improved our skills but the nudibranchs by others still surpassed ours! So we upgraded to better set yet again and went through a number of Olympus cams, the last being the 5050, before we now ended up with the Sea&Sea DX-1G.
The equipment
Our set consist of the following equipment:
- Standard DX-1G set, which is the Ricoh Caplio GX100 camera in a Sea&Sea underwater housing
- 2 Inon D2000 strobes, connected via Fantasea fiber optic sync cables
- The Sea&Sea wide angle lens for the DX-1G
- Fish-Eye tray and flex arms
- Fantasea Nano focus-light with clog shoe flex-arm on top of the housing
Some of the features and specifications of the Caplio GX100:
- 10 megapixel camera with a 24-72mm optical zoom lens (35mm equivalent)
- Macro mode: wide zoom from 1cm / tele from 4 cm
- Aperture: F2.5 - F9.1 (wide angle), F4.4 - F15.8 (tele)
- Shutter speed: 1 - 1/2000 sec
- Recording modes: RAW/JPG
- White balance: Auto, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, manual, bracketed
Let's translate this to what an underwater photographer will find important:
Most of the non-SLR cameras have an aperture limited to F8 (smallest opening). This results in a reduced of depth of field, and we wanted a camera that could do better.
Read the full review at Digifish.nl...
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