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Barmaglot_07 wrote:

bartjeej wrote:

I am only a novice scuba diver with open water license so the 18m rating suits me to a T.

General advice for new divers is to first gain some experience and only then bring along a camera. Photography adds significant task loading, and if managing buoyancy, breathing, team awareness, etc, has not become automatic, getting distracted by the camera can be plain dangerous. The venn diagram of 'divers with sufficient experience to be responsible underwater photographers' and 'divers not certified to go below 18 meters' has very little overlap.

Thanks for the sensible advice, Bermaglot so far I've only handled a camera underwater when the entire team was stationary and the instructor / guide was aware of it.

My team awareness in particular is indeed not where it should be yet (that whole 3D aspect and sound travelling differently makes a massive difference to our normal surface-bound way of experiencing our position relative to each other!), so I don't feel ready to strike out on my own yet.

Still, I have a pretty good idea of what I do and don't like in terms of a camera for diving (although, as you could probably tell from my previous posts, i am mostly looking for a compact, high quality, everything-proof camera, rather than a fully specialized diving set-up. I just can't afford to buy a different set-up for every activity, at least not without losing the budget to perform those activities in the first place ;-D )