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Sony A6500 or A7iii to photograph whales underwater?

Started Dec 19, 2018 | Discussions thread
daveco2
daveco2 Contributing Member • Posts: 953
Re: Sony A6500 or A7iii to photograph whales underwater?
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The big challenges for me underwater are framing moving targets and their backgrounds, water clarity, and backscatter with strobes.  I've solved the framing problem by cropping to some extent with a high pixel count A7RII (soon to be A7RIII in a week).  Water clarity and backscatter I tackle with varying success in Lightroom and Photoshop.  This all depends on how I display the results.  I like large prints.  On a computer screen or DVD on TV, there's a lot more latitude.

Chasing optical image quality as I do in land photography has not been very productive.  For me, under water, most important are ease of use, equipment bulk,  and framing versatility (zoom lens).  Packing dive and photo gear for air travel is another matter.

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