Well done, Keith, a great experience too. I recall - it was a landmark camera in 2004, the one that finally put paid to film in the small format. The EF 15mm is not the best fisheye and certainly the 5DIV would produce a much cleaner image. "Stunning" maybe a bit of an exageration and I wish I could see a side by side comparison of the same shot with 5DIV and 8-15mm lens. #Astrodslr canon 1ds mark 2 iso#So if you can keep the ISO down, 1Ds2 isn't too bad, even today. I was looking at used camera gear, and I'm sure it has other advantages, but the Nikon Df is only 16mp, and is recent. That's interesting, I didn't realize that this camera predated the 5D, but it does. Just a bit more latitude and less grain higher up the ISO range.Ĭool stuff. Low and low-ish ISO image quality really hasn't changed much since then for modest enlargement. Thanks! It's not the going underwater part thats hard, it's coming back up. But still impressed with the 1Ds II!Īnd for the record, it would take a death threat (gun to my head) to get me to even consider going under water. I have a 5D IV that clearly would have yeilded even better results but I don't have a housing for it. It also helps that the water is very cold at this depth so less stuff is adapted to grow there. Note the texture of the shipwreck, it is literally, covered in muscles, every square inch. 30 years ago the visibility would have been maybe 20 feet. You can thank the non-native, invasive zebra muscles, that moved in over the last 30 years. I don't get to dive often enough to go with a DSLR. My underwater rig is just a P & S with a pair of old strobes. Here was my best shot of the 5 day trip of divers exploring the "Florida" a wooden steam ship sunk in 1897.Ĭanon EOS-1Ds Mark II 15.0 mm lens 15mm f/5.0 1/50s 1250 ISO 0.0 EVĪs a diver & 1Ds2 shooter I'm impressed you had that much light at 200 feet. This was exceedingly challenging as a photogrpaher managing a rebreather (not regular scuba gear), handling a large underwater housing by todays standards and capturing usable shots in just 20 minutes of actual time spent on the wreck. This summer I did a trip to Lake Huron and the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary to dive on historical shipwrecks in the 38 degree water, 200 feet deep. A few years ago I sent my 1Ds Mark II to Canon for service and was told they no longer would repair it due to its age so since then I only use it underwater and baby it. In underwater photography one of the main issues is removing as much of the water between the camera and subject so the 15mm fish eye is the goto lens for shooting wide angle underwater. #Astrodslr canon 1ds mark 2 full#This was critical for me shooting underwater because I needed a 15mm fisheye to not be cropped beacuse of a less than full frame sensor. The 1Ds at the time, was the ONLY full frame DSLR on the market. I purchased a 1Ds Mark II and underwater housing some 15 years ago.
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