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Scuba Forum / General / August 2007Born Again, Chris is my Savior!
Thank you very much Chris Guynn for your insight into my hard drive dilemma. You have saved my Grand Cayman pics. At first it was touch and go. I needed the S-ATA hard drive enclosure for the drive that crashed on my trip and I figured I'd order an IDE enclosure for the two other laptop drives I have sitting around to see if I could get anything off them as well. Unfortunately, the shop that you had linked to only had the IDE flavor of the Sabrent enclosures. I found another shop that sold both and placed an order, but that seemed to disappear into vapor since I never heard back from them after getting the auto-confirmation e-mail reply. So I tried with a third company, at twice the original price but still worth it if it worked, and got confirmation that they shipped the two enclosures. Unfortunately, what arrived was two IDE enclosures. I let them know of the mistake and meanwhile went to work on on of the the old IDE drives. The IDE drive didn't work. I plugged it in and got an Unknown Device instead of the USB Storage Device that was supposed to appear. Not a good omen. The second shipment arrived Friday and I finally opened it today. It was the correct S-ATA enclosure, a good sign so far. Popped the drive in and voila, success! I've now backed up the photos to two desktops and I'll start working on them, hopefully having something to post by tonight. Thank you again. I sincerely owe you lots of beers whenever we meet. Naw, forget that. If any of the recovered pics are halfway decent, I owe you and the wife a steak dinner. "Whoo hoo!" -- Doug "Popeye" Frederick (c. 1990s) > Thank you very much Chris Guynn for your insight into my hard drive > dilemma. You have saved my Grand Cayman pics. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > "Whoo hoo!" -- Doug "Popeye" Frederick (c. 1990s) So much for all those who say rec.scuba is a total waste of time, huh? We not only have fun trading insults, but some here actually have little bits of arcane knowledge stored away that comes in handy once in a while. Good stuff. JF > Thank you very much Chris Guynn for your insight into my hard drive > dilemma. You have saved my Grand Cayman pics. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > "Whoo hoo!" -- Doug "Popeye" Frederick (c. 1990s) Can't wait to see the photos, Greg! gc > > Thank you very much Chris Guynn for your insight into my hard drive > > dilemma. You have saved my Grand Cayman pics. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Can't wait to see the photos, Greg! The first batch is ready, from the very first dive with the new housing. I wasn't having much luck getting the exposures right in the shallows using the housing's ROC strobe control, but realized after the dive that I had forgotten to program the housing for my particular strobe type. No wonder. Also, I thought I had programmed the camera to max out at ISO 400, but apparently this was reset to the default, as I noticed that the ISO jumped to 1,600 at the deeper part of the dive, introducing lots of unwanted grain. Finally, the housing kept crashing every time I stopped using it for a minute or so, and I'd have to reboot it and reset my aperture and shutter speed again each time. I later found out from my camera guy, after I returned home from the trip, that Light & Motion had left a crucial part of the instructions out of the manual: a required setting for the camera to not automatically shut the metering system off after inactivity. So, with those caveats, here you go: They're the Grand Cayman UW 1 collection: www.kodakgallery.com/mossman > > > Thank you very much Chris Guynn for your insight into my hard drive > > > dilemma. You have saved my Grand Cayman pics. [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > > www.kodakgallery.com/mossman Greg, excellent compositions, and way to get close. The barracuda is outstanding. On most of them, there's probably enough detail in the highlights to salvage, so they're not totally blown out. As you know, it's usually better to be underexposed than over. I hope you'll post the rest soon. gc > >www.kodakgallery.com/mossman > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > it's usually better to be underexposed than over. I hope you'll post > the rest soon. Thanks. I have to give lots of credit to the high-res camera and the macro lens - it gets me close without having to get too close. Even close enough to shoot fishies while they're being cleaned, as you can see from the last pictures in my set from the second dive, which I just posted as Grand Cayman UW 2. I can't wait until I get the macro port upgraded to handle my 105mm VR lens, but Light & Motion is still working on it. As for overexposed vs. underexposed, I'll scrap a lot of pics if so underexposed that they get grainy, unless the grain doesn't detract too much like in the barracuda. On the other hand, it's hard to avoid overexposing whites and silvers, so sometimes you gotta live with a little. The diamond blenny (#15 in UW 2) is way too overexposed, but since it was my only shot of it before it disappeared, I blew it out even more to try to make it "artistic". That's it for the macro. Now I have to see what good came out of my two wide-angle dives and that's gonna have to wait until tomorrow. Greg Mossman <mossman@qnet.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :As for overexposed vs. underexposed, I'll scrap a lot of pics if so :underexposed that they get grainy, unless the grain doesn't detract [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] :since it was my only shot of it before it disappeared, I blew it out :even more to try to make it "artistic". You could always go natural light for the whites and silvers. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > :As for overexposed vs. underexposed, I'll scrap a lot of pics if so > :underexposed that they get grainy, unless the grain doesn't detract [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > You could always go natural light for the whites and silvers. I believe this was in natural light, but in shallow water (15' or so) under direct sun. It's the ironshore/sand flat that leads from the Cobalt Coast dock to the miniwall, perfect for juveniles and small critters, but very bright on a cloudless day and a bit surgey. I should have waited until the sun went down a bit or increased the shutter speed and/or narrowed the aperture. That's the learning process. Greg Mossman <mossman@qnet.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :They're the Grand Cayman UW 1 collection: : :www.kodakgallery.com/mossman Cudos on image 8. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > Greg Mossman <moss...@qnet.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting > in: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Cudos on image 8. Thanks. I've put Grand Cayman UW 2 up now, with two more queenies at #1 and 2. Greg Mossman <mossman@qnet.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Thanks. I've put Grand Cayman UW 2 up now, with two more queenies at :#1 and 2. 16 is nice. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > Greg Mossman <moss...@qnet.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting > in: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > 16 is nice. Thanks. I love shooting fishies and the 60mm is perfect for that, but there's only so many Carribean fish you can shoot before you've shot them all. Unfortunately this is about the only type of shooting I've done. Now I have to work on my wide-angle technique and that's a much different game for post-processing as well, I'm quickly finding out. Cropping a fish is pretty straightforward. Sometimes you include a bit of background if it's pleasant. But cropping a section of reef or wall takes a bit more time since there are so many options. You may expect a long wait before Grand Cayman UW 3 is ready for prime time. Fortunately I only shot the camera on a few dives. My last camera only held 80 shots on a memory card, so I was conservative in my shooting, and the crappy autofocus ruined most shots anyway so it was easy to cull them. This one takes 234 on a 4GB card in RAW mode, and I just bought a couple 8GB cards for the future. With 468 potential shots on each dive, most of them in focus, it will take a lot longer to wade through them. If I do 25 dives on my Palau trip in March, I could potentially end up with 11,700 shots to Photoshop. If I spend an average of 5 minutes on each, that adds up to 975 hours, or 40 full days and nights, the same time that Noah spent outracing the great flood. > You may > expect a long wait before Grand Cayman UW 3 is ready for prime time. UW 3 is up now: the wide-angle pics. These were all shot at f5.6 at 1/250, but I would have benefited by slowing the shutter speed to 1/125 or 1/60 and letting in more light. Also, the north wall isn't very fishy, which is why you don't see very many fish in the pictures. I prefer shooting fish, or at least reefs with fish. Maybe next time. >>You may >>expect a long wait before Grand Cayman UW 3 is ready for prime time. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > pictures. I prefer shooting fish, or at least reefs with fish. Maybe > next time. Great pics, Greg, - did you get any eels eating??? Been awhile since I have been in the water - love to go now - it is super hot here in st louis - with very high heat index - my car read 107 at noon > Great pics, Greg, - did you get any eels eating??? Actually I didn't see any on my one boat dive or any of the shore dives I did. I think Janna reported seeing a few on her boat dives, but they weren't too plentiful. I'd like to shoot some eels with my new rig. My last camera had such a long shutter lag, it was a real feat to be able to time the exposure with an open mouth. You gotta have the open mouth. No one likes a close-mouthed eel. With the new rig, I'll be able to not only shoot its open mouth, but shoot inside its open mouth. I can't wait until the port is ready for my 105mm macro. I'm going to have a whole series of eel mouths. > Been awhile since I have been in the water - love to go now - it is > super hot here in st louis - with very high heat index - my car read 107 > at noon Sounds horrible. St. Louis is bad enough without the heat. We had our 100+ days for a couple weeks in a row, then it cooled to the mid-90s for the past couple weeks, yesterday only 88, and today was a very cool 83. It's slowly going back up starting tomorrow, though, to an expected 95 on Saturday. But that's what I get for living in a desert. You in St. Louis have no excuse. You wouldn't have liked the water in Cayman. Too warm to be refreshing. The Galapagos, on the other hand, will be very refreshing. Come on down and meet me next week. You're on your own finding a boat, however. I think ours is full. >>Great pics, Greg, - did you get any eels eating??? > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > refreshing. Come on down and meet me next week. You're on your own > finding a boat, however. I think ours is full. Don't think I would like the Galapagos - I like calmer water. I've never been all that impressed with the Caymans - but I Would certainly welcome it. St louis is certain a hell hole - don't actually live there - just a short distance to the SSE. But I can see it from here. What makes it so bad is very little breeze and brutal heat indexes > St louis is certain a hell hole - don't actually live there - just a > short distance to the SSE. But I can see it from here. What makes it > so bad is very little breeze and brutal heat indexes That's why you need to wear a beanie with a propeller. It keeps you cool all day long. Is "heat index" the new PC way of saying "humidity"? I've noticed that the places that get high humidity are pretty much the same places that a modern God would want to destroy with a 40-day flood: St. Louis, the rest of the midwest, NYC, Florida, the rest of the east coast, the rest of the south, Texas, etc. Maybe it's a sign. On the other hand, we dry Californians are subject to premature aging. By the time I turn 80, I'll probably look 85. >>St louis is certain a hell hole - don't actually live there - just a >>short distance to the SSE. But I can see it from here. What makes it [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > On the other hand, we dry Californians are subject to premature > aging. By the time I turn 80, I'll probably look 85. we don't flood here - heat index has been around for quite awhile at least since the late 60's early 70's - sorry you missed that. I can understand why you would think this area would be a place that you think God would like ot destroy with all the hell you have gone thru - torrential rains, earthquakes, droughts, raging forest fires, rock slides on to highways, coastal highways washed away, and don't forget illegal immigrants and road rage. You should be here in God's real country >> On the other hand, we dry Californians are subject to premature >> aging. By the time I turn 80, I'll probably look 85. By the time I turn 80 I'll look 100. Does that mean I've really got it good here? >I can understand why you would think this area would be a place that you > think God would like ot destroy with all the hell you have gone thru - >torrential rains, earthquakes, droughts, raging forest fires, rock >slides on to highways, coastal highways washed away, and don't forget >illegal immigrants and road rage. I assumed that stuff was just so the rest of the country wouldn't be too envious. >You should be here in God's real country Yer in northern Ontario? JF Joe English <joeenglish2@wisperhome.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Don't think I would like the Galapagos - I like calmer water. I've :never been all that impressed with the Caymans - but I Would certainly :welcome it. Galapagos had calm water when I was there. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > Joe English <joeenglish2@wisperhome.com> pounded away at his keyboard > resulting in: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Galapagos had calm water when I was there. I thought in Greg's last trip he did experience some days of very rough water - that what I was referring to But nice to know they do have calm water > Dan Bracuk > Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- <snip> >So, with those caveats, here you go: > >They're the Grand Cayman UW 1 collection: > >www.kodakgallery.com/mossman Some excellent photo's Greg. Rick Simms > <snip> > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Some excellent photo's Greg. Thanks. Now it's time to get back in video mode for the next trip. I'd love to bring the still camera stuff to Galapagos, but it's "luggage embargo" time, so I have to pick and choose. Instead I'm going with a newly serviced video housing that had better not flood, newly serviced video lights that had better work this time, a redundant video camera just in case (which will also come in handy for videoing land action), and 25 or so blank tapes that I can fill up and add to my evergrowing pile of unedited video tapes. I wish it were as easy to do something with video as it is to quickly PS a photo, but I'll get around to editing someday whenever I finally learn what I'm doing and then it will be DVDs for all loyal rec.scubans. My new experiment will be "one hour in the life of a whale shark", whereby I grab onto one when no one is looking, then hang on for the ride of my life for one hour, videotaping all the while. I'm not sure if I should use suction cups or barbed hooks to hold me on, but I'm working out the details. This will get me on Shark Week for sure! > > <snip> > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > I'll get around to editing someday whenever I finally learn what I'm > doing and then it will be DVDs for all loyal rec.scubans. http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/JVC-Everio-GZ-MG505-30GB-Digital-Camcorder/ 2263824/product.html?cid=25608&fp=F Plus http://store.aikotradingstore.com/newjvcwrmg88.html Should get you all the footage you want. For video editing, this is what I use: http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/S tudio+Family/, but you may want something a little more powerful like http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/. If you've really got money to burn, you could go with the JVC GZ-HD7. It's basically the same camera but it comes with a built in 60 GB Hard drive and shoots in 1080i resolution. Video editing has never been so easy. http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/JVC-Everio-GZ-MG505-30GB-Digital-Camcorder/ 2263824/product.html?cid=25608&fp=F Scratch that... I meant to send a link for the 555 instead ofthe 505. The difference is the 505 has a single CCD and takes (IIRC) 1.3 MP stills while the 505 has 3 CCDs and takes 5 MP stills. (Word is that the 555 has better picture quality in video mode as well). > Video editing has never been so easy. If it's easy, what's the fun in it? I already have the cameras, the housing, and lots of tapes. I also have a MiniDV "VCR" that lets me interface the PC with the digital tapes without using the camera. And I have editing software, Adobe Premier Pro, that we bought at the student price while Janna was still in school. I even have the "Classroom in a Book" to teach me Premier Pro. Now I just have to put it all together and that's just a matter of devoting enough time. Time is what I never have enough of. > They're the Grand Cayman UW 1 collection: > > www.kodakgallery.com/mossman Where's the flying gurnard? > > They're the Grand Cayman UW 1 collection: > > >www.kodakgallery.com/mossman > > Where's the flying gurnard? On video. Supposedly I'm allowed to post a few video clips on the kodakgallery website. I'll dig out the tapes from T&C when I start to pack my video case for the Galapagos this weekend - I think they've still been in the case since September - and if I can figure out how to upload a few seconds of video, maybe I will. It's not a very exciting gurnard. Basically you see it sitting there, doing nothing. Then a bit of camera shake while I transfer the camera to one hand and try to push the gurnard along with the other. Action! The lame fish waddles for a couple feet then stops. And begins to do nothing again. My upcoming shark footage will be much more exciting, even the whale sharks which don't do much of anything but cruise by. You should want to see that footage instead and stop bugging me about lazy gurnards. Gurnards are thoroughly overrated. > > > They're the Grand Cayman UW 1 collection: > > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > to see that footage instead and stop bugging me about lazy gurnards. > Gurnards are thoroughly overrated. You asked me about it, so I asked you. :^P > Thank you very much Chris Guynn for your insight into my hard drive > dilemma. You have saved my Grand Cayman pics. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > "Whoo hoo!" -- Doug "Popeye" Frederick (c. 1990s) I have had nightmares about not being able to do my underwater photography, and I rarely have bad dreams. Good show! Good that it worked out. For the K's we spend on some of these vacations, if you don't have your UW pictures it can really make a difference. George > Thank you very much Chris Guynn for your insight into my hard drive > dilemma. You have saved my Grand Cayman pics. Glad I could be of assitance. I enjoyed seeing the pics. > The second shipment arrived Friday and I finally opened it today. It > was the correct S-ATA enclosure, a good sign so far. Popped the drive [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Naw, forget that. If any of the recovered pics are halfway decent, I > owe you and the wife a steak dinner. I look forward to collecting someday. Whether that's beers or steaks, I'll happily consume my share. Had a little play with one pic, hope you don't mind, would love a full res copy but as I am on dialup that can be entertaining. I'm just starting to play with a few uw pics to see what can be done and get some practise for if I do get a housing for my camera. http://gracemere.tripod.com/Temp/fishy.htm  SignatureBrad Leyden 6° 43.5816' S 146° 59.3097' E WGS84 Music has many forms, it can be found in nature as well as man made. Music to my ears is my Tiagra 50W screaming when towing a Wombat from Pakula. To mail spam is really hot but please reply to thread so all may benefit (or laugh at my mistakes) "Brad" <bradleyden@spammail.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Had a little play with one pic, hope you don't mind, would love a full res :copy but as I am on dialup that can be entertaining. :I'm just starting to play with a few uw pics to see what can be done and get :some practise for if I do get a housing for my camera. : :http://gracemere.tripod.com/Temp/fishy.htm tres cool. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. |
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