By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #58) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:46 pm: |
Here are some shots with the Canon G9 I purchased just before the trip. Fantastic camera, underwater scene mode is amazing.
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By Kobi in Virginia (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #6326) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:49 pm: |
TOTALLY awesome Thanks for sharing.............
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #59) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:49 pm: |
And some more..... Also, I meant Ikelite.
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #60) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:53 pm: |
And more.....
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By Debbie Babcock (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #7392) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 1:22 pm: |
Absolutely awesome! Love those burrfish shots!
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By Debbie Babcock (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #7393) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 1:22 pm: |
Oh and the turles too!
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #61) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 1:44 pm: |
Anyone know what the one in the middle of the last set is?
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #62) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 1:46 pm: |
Another favorite of mine.....
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By Debbie Babcock (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #7397) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 3:28 pm: |
Chris, I believe it is a smooth nosed puffer. Very rare to spot on Bonaire. Great catch. If I am wrong in my i.d., I am sure someone will correct me, but I have seen this fish and believe it is a puffer of some sort, maybe have the wrong first part of the name, I have seen this fish around Yellow Submarine area in the past.
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #63) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 3:36 pm: |
Thanks for the ID Debbie! Found a few of them cruising along the bottom in about 10 feet of water near Harbour Village. About 3 - 4" long with reddish eyes if that helps. Just seemed so unusual I decided to take a few shots of them. Unfortunately no frogfish graced my lens this time.
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By Carole B. (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #6736) on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 9:28 pm: |
Terrific shots, ChrisA!! That's amazing you were able to see so many great creatures in the shallows. We love snorkeling, too.
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #64) on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 9:08 am: |
Thanks! It is an amazing camera. Ikelite case excellent once you get comfortable using it. Not much skill, just luck and a lot of time looking at the LCD, which is huge and easy to see even in bright daylight. Excellent zoom and 12MP. I tried some of the custom settings recommended by cameraphiles but ended up using Underwater scene mode. No retouching at all! Only down side is battery life. Highly recommend buying a spare. Needed to recharge every night, sometimes running out of juice altogether at the end of the day. Hit at least 3 snorkel spots daily for 1.5 - 2 hrs each. I did take lots of shots. Filled 2x 8GB cards with the video too. Takes high res video. Had to delete blurry ones each night but ended up with over 1500 "good ones".
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By Traci (BonaireTalker - Post #16) on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 10:05 am: |
Your pictures are awesome! I'm the owner of a Canon G7/Canon housing and absolutely love it. I get really great pictures and video in the underwater setting also with its 10 pixels. Didn't Canon make a housing for the G9 or was the Ikelite a better deal?
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By Becky H - majorly into PBD (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1744) on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 2:22 pm: |
Awesome pictures!!
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By Evan (BonaireTalker - Post #16) on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 4:46 pm: |
nice pix
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By Denise K ** Bonaire trip June 08 (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1942) on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 5:10 pm: |
great pics .. thanks for sharing :-)
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #66) on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 8:46 am: |
Traci,
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #67) on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 9:28 am: |
And a few more.....
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #68) on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 9:57 am: |
And another question. What are those critters on the staghorn coral? I purchased a photo of them at Fisheye last year and when I spotted them, had to take one myself. Little did I know how hard the shot would be - surf was up.
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By Traci (BonaireTalker - Post #19) on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:42 pm: |
Chris,
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By ChrisA (BonaireTalker - Post #70) on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 1:21 pm: |
Traci,
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By Evan (BonaireTalker - Post #18) on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 4:36 pm: |
What I meant was that I'm not favorably impressed with the my results with the TTL function. Ikelite claims: "Special conversion circuitry built in to the housing provides true Canon eTTL exposure connected to any current model Ikelite DS Substrobe." I don't doubt that it's true, but mine gets fooled a lot. Maybe I'm on the steep part of the learning curve, since I've only done 14 dives with this set up.
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