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iPhone 13 Pro with Waterproof Housing, vs TG6?

Started Jan 24, 2022 | Discussions thread
Barmaglot_07 Contributing Member • Posts: 633
Re: iPhone 13 Pro with Waterproof Housing, vs TG6?
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SafariBob wrote:

Really? Even at 1 meter depth?

At very shallow depth, in bright sunlight, you can kind of get away with white-balancing - water dives a blue/green tinge to your shots almost immediately, but near the surface it can be dealt with, although the resulting colors still tend to look somewhat off. Anything beyond that and artificial light becomes an absolute necessity.

Here, for example, are some of my early shots, before I got strobes:

Then I got a pair of strobes, albeit cheap SeaFrogs ST-100s, and hey, colors!

On larger scenes, however, they struggled to provide enough output

Then I got a pair of Retra Pros, and hoo, boy!

Note that all these shots are taken using the same camera, in a much-derided (by some) cheap SeaFrogs housing. The difference is in the lighting.

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