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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?

Craig,

Those are good tips.

About the packing, I would add that I try to stay with a small backpack for the primary and backup camera bodies; a roller carryon for the housing, regulator, and lenses that I could not do without; and a checked duffel for the dive gear, chargers, housing tray/arms, and strobes.  The carryon is no problem when I depart and make connections to large airports; but when the planes get necked down to once-a-week island transports, the roller carryon needs to get checked for a fee ($50-100).  I can live with that, but would not want to push it to $400 with another bag for both directions.

My switch to a7RIII is a long, torturous story having to do with many tradeoffs besides image quality.  So was the search for strobes which also ended this week with two Inon Z330s.

I would greatly prefer to stay entirely in Lightroom except that Photoshop offers the Filter>Noise>Dust&Scratches tool for eliminating particulate reflections which I have not been able to replicate in Lightroom.  I'm going to investigate that black slider some more, as you describe.

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