Come on. Make my mind up! Roll on Dec's Diver mag.

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Originally Posted by John Gulliver

Nice shots, but your wide-angle images are all from St Abbs, the Farnes and Westen Scotland, all of which I've also dived and had excellent visibility. These three areas probably have the most consitently good vis in UK waters. The eastern part of the English Chanel may have excellent vis occasionally but it's hardly famous for its visibility, surely?

John,

Au contraire. I afraid you are completely incorrect in that the Eastern part of the Channel is very famous for its underwater visibility. The fact that the fame is for it being crap vis is surely besides the point?

Bryan

[meathead_dave]

Hi ,

I have just been through the same loop and have spend hours looking at the various models from mainly Canon, Fuji and Sea & Sea. In the end after many discussions at the Dive Show I purchased the Sea & Sea DX-1G. I spent many phone calls to many suppliers - especially Cameras Underwater and Alan James - the answers were ALWAYS different depending upon who you talked to.

what sold me in the end was a chat with a BSOUP guy at the Dive show who showed me the pics he had taken with the DX-1G - stunning.

At the end of the day I decided I wanted a flexible system which would allow manual, point & shoot, support strobes and wet lenses. The DX-1G does all of this. It also supports RAW mode and the housing has a max depth of 55m. Take a look at the spec - it is a very flexible camera. It supports wet lenses and two strobes if you so desire.

At the end of the day you have to put a stake in the ground, I think the DX-1G should keep me happy for a few years. For me is was as close as I could get to SLR functionality without the huge cost costs involved.

Give heather a ring at Alan James, you wont be disappointed.

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Originally Posted by meathead_dave

Hi ,

I have just been through the same loop and have spend hours looking at the various models from mainly Canon, Fuji and Sea & Sea. In the end after many discussions at the Dive Show I purchased the Sea & Sea DX-1G. I spent many phone calls to many suppliers - especially Cameras Underwater and Alan James - the answers were ALWAYS different depending upon who you talked to.

what sold me in the end was a chat with a BSOUP guy at the Dive show who showed me the pics he had taken with the DX-1G - stunning.

At the end of the day I decided I wanted a flexible system which would allow manual, point & shoot, support strobes and wet lenses. The DX-1G does all of this. It also supports RAW mode and the housing has a max depth of 55m. Take a look at the spec - it is a very flexible camera. It supports wet lenses and two strobes if you so desire.

At the end of the day you have to put a stake in the ground, I think the DX-1G should keep me happy for a few years. For me is was as close as I could get to SLR functionality without the huge cost costs involved.

Give heather a ring at Alan James, you wont be disappointed.

I know what you mean, I keep putting my stick in and then pulling it out again because I'm not sure any more.

I am unlikely to do much diving before next year so I may even wait until LIDS before making up my mind.

Bloody technology. Stay still will you (for a while)!

[BJ]

Bryan

If you wait for the latest you will never jump in. Buy the latest in the knowledge that the next model has already left the Far East! Just get on an use it. All my photo and computer equipment is out-of-date. (Just like me!) I'm going to install that version of Leopard OS on my Mac soon. I bet it's now an old version.

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Originally Posted by BJ

Bryan

If you wait for the latest you will never jump in. Buy the latest in the knowledge that the next model has already left the Far East! Just get on an use it. All my photo and computer equipment is out-of-date. (Just like me!) I'm going to install that version of Leopard OS on my Mac soon. I bet it's now an old version.

If I could find the camera that 'ticked all the boxes' I would be a lot happier about making a decision so I'm sticking to my decision not to buy anything until after the Dec Diver mag camera review.

No pressure?

[aquayle]

Originally Posted by meathead_dave

Hi ,

I have just been through the same loop and have spend hours looking at the various models from mainly Canon, Fuji and Sea & Sea. In the end after many discussions at the Dive Show I purchased the Sea & Sea DX-1G. I spent many phone calls to many suppliers - especially Cameras Underwater and Alan James - the answers were ALWAYS different depending upon who you talked to.

what sold me in the end was a chat with a BSOUP guy at the Dive show who showed me the pics he had taken with the DX-1G - stunning.

At the end of the day I decided I wanted a flexible system which would allow manual, point & shoot, support strobes and wet lenses. The DX-1G does all of this. It also supports RAW mode and the housing has a max depth of 55m. Take a look at the spec - it is a very flexible camera. It supports wet lenses and two strobes if you so desire.

At the end of the day you have to put a stake in the ground, I think the DX-1G should keep me happy for a few years. For me is was as close as I could get to SLR functionality without the huge cost costs involved.

Give heather a ring at Alan James, you wont be disappointed.

Rang Camerasunderwater and asked how long the DX-1G takes to save a RAW piccy - have u any idea on focus-shot-save-ready for the next photo time? Mine (oly SP350)takes 8 seconds to save the file & about 2secs to focus & sort out its life, so a full shot takes about 10 seconds.

Andy

[StuartC]

Originally Posted by aquayle

Rang Camerasunderwater and asked how long the DX-1G takes to save a RAW piccy - have u any idea on focus-shot-save-ready for the next photo time? Mine (oly SP350)takes 8 seconds to save the file & about 2secs to focus & sort out its life, so a full shot takes about 10 seconds.

Andy

for the DX5000G I was getting times of 18-20s, and no change with faster a SD card
I've bought a Caplio GX for the same housing (it's the DX8000G after Sea&Sea rebadge it) and can get 13s from press to ready for next shot with a 150x SD card shooting macro.

Note: the file format on the 5000 and 8000 models is claimed to be RAW mode, but is in fact saved as non-compressed TIFF.

Photoshop doesn't recognise the file format of the files when copied directly from the SD card.
The software that comes with the camera does, and if you use that to upload and save then it does recognise it as TIFF.
However, Photoshop doesn't treat it as a Camera RAW file format.

I was a bit disappointed when I discovered this and have not bothered shooting in RAW due to the time it takes to save the shot.

However, if anybody knows of any free tools I could use to give RAW editing capabilities on this TIF file format, then please advise!

If going for the DX-1G and RAW is an important feature then I'd ask for a sample RAW file to see how you can import and manipulate it.