Hi all! Just wondered if anyone has any tips about the best film to use with
a small very basic 'Sealife Reefmaster' camera. Pics usually come out 2
blue/green no matter wot the developers do ... I do get a lot of pics of
blue/green water but that's more down to my underwater photography technique
( or lack of :-) ) than anything else LOL Am going diving in
Fuerteventura (Deep Blue) in a couple of weeks so grateful 4 any advice ...
Thanks in advance
Kathi
Ken - 22 Jul 2006 16:05 GMT
> Hi all! Just wondered if anyone has any tips about the best film to use
> with a small very basic 'Sealife Reefmaster' camera. Pics usually come out
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> Thanks in advance
> Kathi
External flash. No film will register light that is not there. The hue you
describe is a shortage of reds. The only way to alter this is for you to put
red light there when you take the pic - flash. The internal flash is
generally too weak to do this, and in any case is mounted too close to the
axis of the lens.
Sealife do a dedicated set of guns for this camera, which may be useable
with other Sealife or other brands of camera shouod you decide to ditch film
in favour of digital at some point.
Ken
DoobieDo - 22 Jul 2006 22:30 GMT
> Hi all! Just wondered if anyone has any tips about the best film to use
> with a small very basic 'Sealife Reefmaster' camera.
I remember film..... we did it in history a few weeks ago ;p
Chris Quinn - 23 Jul 2006 12:45 GMT
> Hi all! Just wondered if anyone has any tips about the best film to
> use with a small very basic 'Sealife Reefmaster' camera. Pics usually
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> grateful 4 any advice ... Thanks in advance
> Kathi
For shallower water, you can use a colour correction filter (different ones
needed for blue water such as the Med or Egypt, and green water such as the
UK), but this will only reduce the other colours by similar amounts,
restoring (nearly) the normal balance - ie they remove even more light, so
it needs to be bright in the first place.
For anything deeper, or in lower light conditions, get an external flash
(cover up the unternal flash if it has one) and get in CLOSE!
Chris Q