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White balance on Sony a6300 insufficient?

Started May 8, 2017 | Questions thread
nafik Contributing Member • Posts: 922
Re: White balance on Sony a6300 insufficient?

Oleg L K wrote:

Let me disagree; using a camera with reasonably large sensor (instead of _any_ compact) is never an overkill, neither underwater nor on the ground. You do get nicer perspective (e.g. 3-d look), better dynamic range, etc.

It's true that for underwater stills photography Sony A6300 doesn't bring much over, say, Sony 5100, but this is up to each specific person and the usage patterns.

By the way, the camera needs to cope with enormous contrast when shooting at shallow depth in sunny day.

Regards,

Oleg.

You are right on absolutely all points except it is all about compromises, and to me personally also about the end user.

The end user of my UW photography 99% of the time is somebody who has never been underwater or is not a photographer. For them what I produce with any camera UW is fantastic. They always will look at my UW images on their smartphone or a crappy terminal at work, so IQ is almost irrelevant.

Also, I do not dive enough to have enough practice.

However when I shoot in hopes of making a sale or on paid assignment, that is a different story.

If you're curious you can look at what can be done with cheap compacts underwater.

Although not exactly David Doubilet

https://michaelzphoto.smugmug.com/Underwater

P.S. Hope you use a retina display

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Nice camera...now show me the pictures.

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