Diving

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Sony RX100 1st dive

1st dive with Sony RX100 camera

This is the first dive with my new sony rx100. configuration is:

Sony RX100
Recsea Camera housing
Ikelite Af35 flash

(fitted sync cord cover to recsea as if to fit sync cord , and the flash still works without the sync cord using the af35 normal sensor , so a very nice neat setup for flash)

Ikelite pro 2800 video lite

Bought the camera as the compact size , large sensor promised to be a just what i wanted in a camera.

Highly portable yet taking reasonable quality shots, with good dof etc.

The shots on land have been excellent and the shots from this first dive are outstanding (considering first dive and i am very much an amateur)

first things, the setup worked well, fits nicely in hand without being too big, (mounted video battery on bcd)

speed and ability to deal with low light was very good, although i did use flash for most, but had to dial down compared to s95 i used to use.)

Video was excellent (see sample at bottom) as was the ability to take a still during video recording), can see the difference the bigger sensor and 20 meg pixels vs 10 on s95 make.

Next is the i-dive fish eye and macro lens to try out.

Note: conditions at Blairgowrie were good , but still reasonable amount of silt in water

note some images more for camera than interesting.