https://alphamarinephoto.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1564935833105-H341AGJMK0F4OKOS0ZLE/Alphamarine-Photography-Ltd-%2872dpi%29.jpg Alphamarine Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1586599001231-FUON2HO5EE3P836LHT8Q/anne-kingston-wreck.jpg Alphamarine Photography - Underwater Photography Equipment And Training Image of a diver (Anne Medcalf) with an underwater photography setup in front of the wreck of the Kingston in the Egyptian Red Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1725813628797-EYCMLHBAC3KR4GUS968G/phil-capers.jpg Alphamarine Photography - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1565252821393-IW5YE9RJ2IFHF6TEGMOB/philgopro.jpg Alphamarine Photography Phil trying out a SUPE light with an old GoPro 3. Because our customers come from all levels of underwater photography we do the best we can to test what we sell with a range of cameras. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1534158620796-EH0KZ5SW1WECDHX5NMFQ/Anne-048550.jpg The Alphamarine Blog https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2026/2/22/go-diving-show-offers-and-competition monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2026/1/2/using-the-built-in-flash-on-your-tg6-or-tg7-camera-to-take-underwater-pictures monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/a0cc3f93-7e2a-4d9f-85fc-4c2da0407288/bluedragontg.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Built-in Flash on Your TG6 or TG7 Camera to Take Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out Using just the built-in flash as your light source doesn’t give the same ability to creatively light subjects as a strobe on an arm system. But as a low cost way of getting marine life images for ID it’s very effective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/fd30a93f-cf67-4b3c-921d-54947a86ae9b/81J6k-TVQWL._AC_SL1500_.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Built-in Flash on Your TG6 or TG7 Camera to Take Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out The PT-059 housing will fit the TG5, TG6 and TG7 cameras. It’s made by AOI who have produced Olympus branded underwater housings for many years along with Fantasea, Backscatter and their own brand products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/2da9711a-1c57-4f20-94f9-54ef422ba1ea/gobyTG6.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Built-in Flash on Your TG6 or TG7 Camera to Take Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out With aperture set to its highest f number and the camera lens zoomed to its longest focal length you’ll get an f number of 18. That cuts out a lot of light and along with some empty space behind your subject and a fast shutter speed to reduce the ambient light even more, will help you achieve a black background as in this shot of a goby on a sponge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/2346920d-25fe-427a-aa23-ce24ea919cc2/frogfishbelowTG.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Built-in Flash on Your TG6 or TG7 Camera to Take Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out This picture of a frogfish perched on a sponge was taken with camera turned so the flash was at the bottom left lighting upwards. Aperture was set to the highest option but the lens was zoomed out to just slightly less than its widest giving an f number of 9. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/71dc953f-85a9-4496-818a-f761c959b60e/mantisshrimptg.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Built-in Flash on Your TG6 or TG7 Camera to Take Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out This pink eared mantis shrimp was really tolerant of me and my camera and let me keep close to it and get a series of shots. Being close to your subject reduces depth of field which is why the background will often be out of focus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/78a32d76-90b3-4202-88af-5d1e834d2bf8/dwarfgobyTG6.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Built-in Flash on Your TG6 or TG7 Camera to Take Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out In this picture of a yellow dwarf goby, one side of the fish is in shadow because the camera is very close and the flash coming from the top left corner is blocked by the fish itself. Positioning the camera in portrait position would’ve lit the fish a bit more evenly with more shadow below rather than to the side. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2026/1/21/alphamarine-photography-at-the-go-diving-show-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-21 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2025/11/1/a-guide-to-wet-lens-holders-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/667d9945-ca3a-4d39-a6ea-d5512df3b0b8/20-21_s_xds.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Wet Lens Holders For Underwater Photography - Make it stand out INON lens holders are small enough even for their XD bayonet mount that one will fit on a quite short strobe arm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/9fd4b9cd-b592-4645-9a77-0bf67378a874/29_float-mega_float.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Wet Lens Holders For Underwater Photography - Make it stand out All INON float arms can be fitted with two lens holders but bear in mind that if you have them as the arms closest to your strobes or video lights the extra weight and bulk of the lenses may make it difficult to position your light source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/aed5d8de-398c-4ba1-8405-24e6d3914df5/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+19.01.19.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Wet Lens Holders For Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Nauticam lens holders for their float arms attach using a ring made to fit a specific diameter. If you have other brand float arms of the diameter you could use them on those. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1fd95fa3-dfb7-49bb-a412-326e3815427b/Screenshot+2025-10-29+at+14.34.14.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Wet Lens Holders For Underwater Photography - Make it stand out One advantage of using cold shoe lens holders is that usually they are close enough to your housing port that you can have a lanyard attached between the lens and the housing without needing to unclip the lens when moving it from the port to the holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/6c881505-530b-4f0a-a4f1-353705639827/lens_holder_adapter_d5_setup1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Wet Lens Holders For Underwater Photography - Make it stand out The Lens Holder Adapter D5 fits under a Direct Base III ball mount on their Grip Base D5 tray handles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/5b3d1d85-6640-46d7-a701-c57e4d96a137/lensarm_set.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Wet Lens Holders For Underwater Photography - Make it stand out The INON M67 Lens Arm in a configuration as it was originally designed to be used. In theory it can also be used just as a lens holder for an M67 lens and I have heard of people using a lens on this mount instead of a magnifying glass when muck diving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/ddaa352b-afb4-46bd-baf2-cb15d364bc7f/apimss639__31867.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Wet Lens Holders For Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Flip adapters are definitely the fastest method of swapping from either using a macro wet les and not or in the case of the double adapter pictured changing between two different power lenses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/2f905293-99ca-41c0-ae72-5e92d175890f/Screenshot+2025-11-06+at+09.25.05.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Wet Lens Holders For Underwater Photography - Make it stand out If you have a Nauticam housing for a Panasonic LX100, Canon G5XII or Sony RX100 MkVI or VII there is a single flip holder to fit the rectangular port that comes as standard with those housings, for a cost of £238 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2024/3/28/why-the-inon-uwl-95-s-xd-is-the-wide-angle-wet-lens-i-recommend-most-often-to-customers monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/dce66ed8-7114-4ab6-afb7-37901b6c2ab0/Screenshot+2024-03-28+at+15.59.03.png The Alphamarine Blog - Why the INON UWL-95 S is the wide angle wet lens I recommend most often for underwater photography - Make it stand out The flat fronted lens without a dome fitted is very compact and still in most cases gives an angle of view greater than from a so called air lens or air dome such as the Backscatter Wide Air Lens or Weefine WFL-11 & 12. But it is more expensive and a lot heavier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593772250668-R1SXN6GKBIXBTIR0BLDZ/G7Xvignette.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Why the INON UWL-95 S is the wide angle wet lens I recommend most often for underwater photography - Make it stand out This is the vignetting that occurs when using a conventional wide angle wet lens like the UWL-95S with the Canon G7XII camera in a Fantasea housing with the camera lens zoomed out to its widest. Unfortunately you lose a lot of angle of view by zooming past this. This problem is less severe when using wet lenses with wider glass elements but these are bulkier, heavier and more expensive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/a27cc212-6ae8-40fd-a99a-6dca6ee0502e/anemonefishUWL-95S.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Why the INON UWL-95 S is the wide angle wet lens I recommend most often for underwater photography - Make it stand out The ability to zoom in with the wide angle lens in place allows you to reframe a scene more closely without having to take the lens off. This shot was taken using an Olympus TG6 with the UWL-95S XD, on the house reef of Dive Into Lembeh resort where we ran a workshop in 2023 and are running more in 2025 and 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/0c5b0a8f-ff09-40bb-bc7b-23232fa5267c/05_xd_lens_holder_shoe_base_setup.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Why the INON UWL-95 S is the wide angle wet lens I recommend most often for underwater photography - Make it stand out The Inon shoe base lens holder is a good way to keep your lens secure when not in use and is especially helpful if you are using multiple lenses for wide angle and macro. It’s also great if you are keeping simple and shooting using available light and don’t need strobe arms. Cost is only £23. The XD mount version of UWL-95S comes with an attachment ring and a securing lanyard which is long enough that you can take the lens off the housing port and put it on the cold shoe holder without unclipping it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/c523b7ac-32db-4802-b69f-95917c210146/turtleUWL-95S.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Why the INON UWL-95 S is the wide angle wet lens I recommend most often for underwater photography - Make it stand out I’ve dived recently in the Bunaken National Park in Indonesia with an Olympus OM-D EM10 MkII camera fitted with a 12-50mm lens combined with the UWL-95S fitted with a dome and two different strength INON macro lenses which gave me the ability to change from shooting wide angle shots of turtles down to macro shots of pygmy sea horses. To do this I used two lens holders on strobe arms and one on my housing cold shoe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/d325861a-4027-4606-a182-439df09822d1/05_dome_lens_setup.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Why the INON UWL-95 S is the wide angle wet lens I recommend most often for underwater photography - Make it stand out The UWL-95S XD lens with Dome Lens Unit in place shown with the XD mount fitted to an Olympus housing for a TG camera https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2025/7/2/red-sea-workshop-and-roots-red-sea-resort-offer monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/b48f79a1-428f-4261-b523-7b6f730c78ca/redsea-2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Red Sea Workshop and Roots Red Sea Resort Offer - Make it stand out Coral groupers and several species of shrimps can be found on the house reef at Roots https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/5aca1c55-0af7-4e60-813e-150ba385b766/redsea-4.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Red Sea Workshop and Roots Red Sea Resort Offer - Make it stand out During our workshops there’s opportunity to try out wet lenses such as the INON UCL-67 macro lens used to take this image of a goby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/e21198bd-2e36-4760-a138-af2ab2f52949/redsea-1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Red Sea Workshop and Roots Red Sea Resort Offer - Make it stand out The unlimited house reef diving allows you to revisit subjects such as anemones with anemone fish to experiment and perfect different techniques https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2025/2/18/news-were-partnering-with-the-marine-biological-association monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/e6176483-cb05-484d-a6f9-e44642fa8bf8/MBARGB.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - NEWS: We're partnering with The Marine Biological Association - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2025/1/22/using-the-olympus-30mm-f35-macro-lens-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/31965f22-5bb0-46f0-b8b6-c988b6bb3562/unicorngoby.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Olympus 30mm f/3.5 Macro Lens for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out The 30mm focuses extremely close for dealing with tiny subjects such as this unicorn goby. But that can cause problems with lighting. For this image I used an Inon S2000 strobe fitted with a narrow snoot. This wasn’t to make the surroundings black but just to fit the light source in the gap between the lens and the fish to prevent it being in shadow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/8b2c6bf6-59cc-452c-b779-85ce8497cc6e/catfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Olympus 30mm f/3.5 Macro Lens for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out For such a budget friendly lens the results it gives are very good and having a wider angle of view offers opportunities to create compositions that might not be available when shooting macro with my other lenses. In this case a wider angle allowed me to fit in more of this shoal of catfish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/68a02cf4-db0d-43a7-93c4-8a6bf5081118/porcelaincrabs.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using the Olympus 30mm f/3.5 Macro Lens for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Like any lens you’ll find your results with the 30mm will improve as you use it more and get a feel for the focusing distance and the angle of view. Being able to get so close and still focus means that you’ll seldom have the issue that sometimes occurs where the photographer gets too close to the subject to still be able to focus. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2024/12/7/the-backscatter-mini-flash-2-strobe-for-underwater-photography-video-and-extra-info monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2024/11/20/the-marelux-apollo-s-a-video-about-mareluxs-mid-priced-strobe-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/05a06094-e67c-402e-b548-2be3cdaf4e56/Screenshot+2024-11-20+at+19.41.32.png The Alphamarine Blog - The Marelux Apollo S : A video about Marelux's Mid-Priced Strobe for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out The Marelux SOFT Lite weighs 600g in air but is neutrally buoyant in the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/5149d786-ada1-41f3-9a53-f1ffa5c25eea/Screenshot+2024-11-20+at+19.36.11.png The Alphamarine Blog - The Marelux Apollo S : A video about Marelux's Mid-Priced Strobe for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2024/10/25/the-s220-strobe-a-video-about-inons-current-underwater-photography-strobe monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/dfd70779-e1b7-4487-b8d6-2013022022ba/021_s-220.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The S220 Strobe: A Video About INON's Current Underwater Photography Strobe - Make it stand out This is one of the two temperatures of filter that are sold separately for the S220. You can see the bayonet design of the filters in this image along with the four ridges that allow the strobe to be stood face down on a flat surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/c084df29-10f8-4244-aac9-415ab6445f94/optical_d_cable_type_l.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The S220 Strobe: A Video About INON's Current Underwater Photography Strobe - Make it stand out This is INON’s 43cm cable with a coil section and the fitting for their strobe sensors. Strangely on the longer cables the coiled sections are no longer nor is the section from the coil to the strobe fitting. Instead you get a long straight section from the coil to the camera end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/32246a82-dd00-4c68-b7e2-a5317e0b4547/INON+Mounts.001.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The S220 Strobe: A Video About INON's Current Underwater Photography Strobe - Make it stand out The INON Z Adaptor II on the left and the Direct Base III on the right. The Direct Base III can also be used as a ball mount on the handles of INON’s Grip Base D5 tray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/58c8785b-57fa-471f-9d7d-747419d5fe08/Screenshot-2024-01-20-at-14.51.27-600x589.png The Alphamarine Blog - The S220 Strobe: A Video About INON's Current Underwater Photography Strobe - Make it stand out Marelux’s SOFT Lite is still a very substantial snoot to add to a diminutive strobe like the S220, even though it is the smaller model to their original. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2024/8/1/video-how-to-clean-the-o-ring-on-your-underwater-housing monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2024/4/30/taking-close-up-pictures-with-the-olympus-amp-om-system-tg-cameras-which-focusing-distances-do-you-get-in-different-modes monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/0d1697c9-ec1a-49ac-a5c8-a770aa92bb83/urchin.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Taking close up pictures with the Olympus & OM System TG cameras. Which focusing distances do you get in different modes? - Make it stand out Close up of a common sea urchin taken using a TG-6. While this was taken from closer than 10cm I certainly wasn’t as close as the camera would focus as I didn’t want to get spiked by the urchin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/df47a9d5-78ad-444f-9fce-98de75768759/Lizardfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Taking close up pictures with the Olympus & OM System TG cameras. Which focusing distances do you get in different modes? - Make it stand out This shot of a lizardfish in the Red Sea was taken using a TG-5 in Microscope mode using the camera’s built-in flash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/7e0459bf-ff56-45c0-925b-58e174957b5c/Screenshot+2024-04-30+at+15.40.06.png The Alphamarine Blog - Taking close up pictures with the Olympus & OM System TG cameras. Which focusing distances do you get in different modes? - Make it stand out To set your TG6 or TG7 to Super Macro Focusing press the OK button while the camera is A or P mode and then scroll across to the tulip symbol with AFS. The default on the camera is normal Auto Focus as chown in this picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/ef6c9263-b55e-4422-952e-eacad278a3a0/polypsTG.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Taking close up pictures with the Olympus & OM System TG cameras. Which focusing distances do you get in different modes? - Make it stand out Being able to control the aperture settings is a fairly substantial plus for me when shooting very close up. The dark background in this picture was achieved by setting the aperture to its highest f number with the zoom at its longest to get the equivalent of f/18. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2024/3/12/march-underwater-photography-equipment-offers-and-competition-to-win-a-course monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2024/2/28/trip-report-bunaken-oasis-dive-resort monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/af025926-4a58-4553-88dc-8a86e1627571/bunaken-turtle.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip report: Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort - Make it stand out The majority of the turtles seen on dives here are green turtles but hawksbills are quite common as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/127b4d40-e569-4be1-8a0b-9a0b04d517d8/bunaken-trainees.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip report: Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort - Make it stand out Three very happy dive guide trainees, who were nearing the end of their training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/5fd07b90-9df7-45b9-b12a-2a6d5a3ee430/bunaken+drinks.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip report: Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort - Make it stand out The infinity swimming pool is a great place to relax after the diving is done and especially nice to have one of the bar staff bring us iced tea. While many diving resorts give guest reusable drinking bottles to help cut down on plastic waste, Bunaken Oasis provide flasks to keep your water cool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/ec6fb8b8-a309-4c02-b58e-31714ea9a944/bunaken+view.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip report: Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort - Make it stand out Every room has a nice view but our room at the top of the hill the resort is on had a particularly good one over the beautifully kept gardens and out to sea from the balcony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/b17c1675-ee5a-4016-a08e-ca9f3666bfce/oasis-tools.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip report: Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort - Make it stand out The selection of o ring grease, tools and Nauticam vacuum pumps available for guests to use in the air conditioned camera room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/a0da1189-1dc7-4c07-8b2c-789277ec41da/bunaken-crab.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip report: Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort - Make it stand out A porcelain crab perches on the edge of an interesting spotted anemone. On most dives I took a mirrorless camera fitted with a kit lens or a compact camera so I could use both macro and wide angle wet lenses. This gave the ability to get pictures of whatever size creature I encountered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/26b1d2b7-b359-4f9e-8420-f47392ab2059/pygmyseahorse.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip report: Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort - Make it stand out Pontoh’s pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus pontohi) is named after a dive guide who discovered it who now works at the resort. In an impressive bit of guiding my guide Ilham found this on the same morning I was introduced to Pontoh at the dive centre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/26981d25-ab8d-45c1-8998-10eb7155ee8d/bunaken-shark.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip report: Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort - Make it stand out A small white-tip reef shark turns to face the camera. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/12/21/trip-report-2023-lembeh-underwater-photography-workshop monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/da109e49-53d7-47de-baa3-2907ec8ce2e9/Lembeh-emperor.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip Report: 2023 Lembeh Underwater Photography Workshop - Make it stand out Emperor shrimps living on large sea cucumbers are a fairly common sight on dives in the Lembeh Straits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/5306f114-6ddd-48de-8c6d-d9db3b3d1b53/DILCameraroom.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip Report: 2023 Lembeh Underwater Photography Workshop - Make it stand out The resort has a camera room with plenty of spaces to prepare your gear, power sockets for chargers, towels and air guns for drying equipment and two large rinse tanks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/9c193b64-31d7-4142-94bf-ebfb3d940c0e/porcelain-crab.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip Report: 2023 Lembeh Underwater Photography Workshop - Make it stand out Anemone porcelain crab on the underside of its anemone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/2246306e-6a8d-4562-9930-4a8bf638b3b6/DILBeach.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip Report: 2023 Lembeh Underwater Photography Workshop - Make it stand out The view across the beach at Dive Into Lembeh showing the straits and Lembeh Island in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/f3574993-1289-4cfb-acd7-796d6549f940/anemonefis-DIL.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip Report: 2023 Lembeh Underwater Photography Workshop - Make it stand out The house reef at Dive Into Lembeh was home to an impressive number and variety of anemones and their resident anemonefish. This pink anemonefish (Amphiprion perideraion) is host to a tongue biter parasite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/02a3084d-b639-41d1-b668-2fd1c70e1e4a/mimic-octopus.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip Report: 2023 Lembeh Underwater Photography Workshop - Make it stand out This mimic octopus was one of several species of cephalopod we encountered on the dives. Anne lit it using a Backscatter Mini Flash 2 strobe fitted with an optical snoot which as well as using ourselves was tried out by several of the workshop attendees along with other equipment we brought with us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/f011b758-3af1-4aa9-815c-459812f229ab/DILPool.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Trip Report: 2023 Lembeh Underwater Photography Workshop - Make it stand out The pool quickly became part of our post dive routine https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/10/20/a-guide-to-trays-and-handles-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/0ad65df5-60bc-408e-864b-0cc449196074/amandacamera.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out A guest on one of our Red Sea Workshops using a demo strobe setup. The tray is a Nauticam one with a single handle while the arms and strobe are Inon and the clamps are also Nauticam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/20e6dede-5991-44f4-84d9-5a3f44b5479f/001_grip_base_d5.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out The position of the handles on the Grip Base D5 can be adjusted to accommodate different sizes of underwater housing. The base plate can be used without handles and have ball mounts attached to its underside. Combined with clamps and ball ended arms you can turn it into a simple tripod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/b364bd66-42ca-4a6b-873c-3dd539c9d6c3/Screenshot+2024-01-22+at+17.27.55.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out The more adjustable Flexitray II and Flexitray II W give you more scope for using larger housings while still having those comfortable Nauticam handles. The W also has two tripod screw holes for mounting your whole setup on a tripod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/707c0ce7-ca75-4304-8656-1a9b9066115f/annecamera.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Anne with her Nauticam setup including the housing for the Olympus OM-D EM10 MKII fitted with an Easitray and adjustable right handle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/90f93e88-0c2e-4b65-8d1a-9c388c9100c5/19.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Side view of the Kraken Sport TR08 Dual Handle Tray showing the handle shape and cut out style. The width of this tray can be adjusted from an 8inch gap between the handles up to 11.25 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/8592d34c-a23e-43ec-ac3a-1e49bf2e6403/5531-DivePro-Double-Handled-Extendable-tray-with-Ball-Mounts-Z-10.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out The DivePro Z10 is a substantial tray that has mounting points in front of strobe mounting ball. while these allow you to take off a handle and use it on its own with an action camera you could also mount an action camera as addition to your main camera without needing a cold shoe mount. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/2783d18e-8c9d-4b20-abf2-05c9cd18cc3b/Screenshot+2024-01-22+at+18.20.40.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Weefine trays come with a range of coloured o rings to use on the handles. So you can give your tray a more personalised look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/99f15810-d536-4574-ba3f-6d25c3f4ceea/Screenshot+2026-02-21+at+15.01.55.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out The AOI dual handle trays have simple grips reminiscent of the ones on early INON tray handles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/75dcd091-6d86-440a-979c-f5fe9b8484a2/Screenshot+2026-02-21+at+15.08.35.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Trays and Handles for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out One nice feature on the Deepshots blue tray, that you don’t see as standard on a lot of are attachment points for lanyards on both handles. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/8/3/white-balance-on-the-olympus-tg6 monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/01d999bf-95a2-4bd2-a4fb-378c9c00c2ee/Screenshot+2023-08-03+at+12.06.42.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to White Balance on the Olympus TG6 and TG7 - Make it stand out To bring up the white balance options press the OK button while in a shooting mode and then scroll up or down in the menu on the right hand side of the screen. The currently selected white balance mode will be shown in the right hand menu. Once you reach the white balance mode it will be highlighted yellow and the WB menu will be displayed across the bottom of the screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/d7a608d6-3e07-4f29-a323-140bf444c3f2/Screenshot+2023-08-03+at+12.06.42.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to White Balance on the Olympus TG6 and TG7 - Make it stand out All the options available won’t show on the screen at once so you’ll have to scroll across. From left to right in this shot are the symbols for Auto, Sunny, Shade, Cloudy, Incandescent light, Fluorescent light and Shallow Underwater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/3a838e70-6f15-4d10-b029-194ecee2f54a/Screenshot+2023-08-03+at+12.24.47.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to White Balance on the Olympus TG6 and TG7 - Make it stand out In this screenshot are Deep Underwater (I’ve missed out Medium Depth Underwater but it is in the menu), Flash, four Capture White Balances and Custom White Balance in Kelvin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/bef15fb5-040a-4a1d-9241-6b5c5b969d75/Screenshot+2023-08-03+at+12.42.53.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to White Balance on the Olympus TG6 and TG7 - Make it stand out Interestingly the three underwater modes aren’t just based on taking out an amount of blue or adding warm tones. There is some level of automation in how they work. This shot was taken using the deep underwater setting and I’d expect the image to have a lot of red in it if the white balance was just removing blue tone. But even though there is a variation in the light levels across the picture there doesn’t seem to be a difference in tone from how it looked on Auto white balance or in fact on either of the other two modes. Presumably the camera software will look at the overall tone in a shot and reduce it if the tone is predominately blue or perhaps green. I haven’t actually tested this in water as I tend to use Capture White Balance or colour correct with software. Both of which will do better jobs than the camera software. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/c7d14744-4e16-4b36-9b7a-93cfa714f228/Screenshot+2023-08-03+at+13.03.56.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to White Balance on the Olympus TG6 and TG7 - Make it stand out When one of the four Capture White Balance settings is selected in the white balance menu you’ll see this. Then press the Info button to start the process of setting a new white balance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/bbc6c921-1060-451d-a35a-aa7f1c2c4a37/Screenshot+2023-08-03+at+13.06.49.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to White Balance on the Olympus TG6 and TG7 - Make it stand out This is the instruction you’ll get next. Once you have your white object lined up press the camera shutter button https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1304f42d-5c79-48d2-a5b1-9c8029df871c/Screenshot+2023-08-03+at+13.07.08.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to White Balance on the Olympus TG6 and TG7 - Make it stand out You’ll then get this shown. If you are happy with the result press OK when Yes is highlighted yellow. You’ll notice that the view on the screen is a lot lighter than the previous screen capture. That’s because this is generated as an image would be using the camera’s exposure setting while the previous view was just what was being shown on the camera screen (I hope that makes sense). Unlike with many other cameras when you set white balance this way you aren’t creating an actual reference picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/7414daf8-7345-427d-b410-b7794fe26100/TGCustomWB.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to White Balance on the Olympus TG6 and TG7 - Make it stand out This shot of Anne was taken using Capture White Balance at about 5 or 6 metres depth in the Red Sea. You can see that there was enough red light still available for her nail varnish to show up nice and clear and while there is a slight blue tone in places where less sunlight reached, the overall colours have come out well with a nice tone to the blue in the background. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/7/7/strobe-arms-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/2433eefd-39b3-449d-904c-fd9ad6a64a77/philflexiarm.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Strobe Arms for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out A picture of me from ten years ago with my first strobe and arm setup using a flexi arm that cost £25 on a Nauticam tray. Definitely a false economy. After this trip I bought two lengths of Nauticam ball ended arm and three clamps and have never regretted it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/cf8aaf0c-2dfb-4603-bc81-e8320bf863fe/Fg7x.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Strobe Arms for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out If you can afford them Nauticam arm systems will give you a robust and reliable setup that will last you a long time. This is a typical arrangement using 125mm and 200mm lattice arms with three standard clamps. The tray is a Nauticam Easitray II and adjustable right handle with a Fantasea FG7X II housing mounted on it and the strobe is an Inon S2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/392c407b-a903-4b27-8d47-951e7ed1a73e/5518-DivePro-250mm-Arm.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Strobe Arms for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out DivePro’s arm range. These arms don’t suit having lens holders fitted to them compared to the more traditional lattice arms as the bolt for the holder may not fit through the cut out lettering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/4a67ffc2-55cd-40dd-8520-f9566271fdb9/arm-s.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Strobe Arms for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out If you want the full INON get a 150mm arm. The cut out lettering is deliberately wide so that unlike the DivePro arms they can easily be fitted with lens holders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/6d110e49-2085-42ef-959e-cac6d76e6088/ysadapter.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Strobe Arms for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out INON’s YS Adaptor even has o rings around the socket to help ensure the correct fit without your strobe being loose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/0fb547f9-e411-4793-b8b8-84d51e7134d7/Screenshot+2023-07-27+at+18.13.04.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Strobe Arms for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Nauticam short arms have a ‘stick’ that is the same diameter as the ball stem on their longer lattice arms, making them as robust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/f113408d-235b-4b68-bec7-169d44446767/multiballarm.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Strobe Arms for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out A common use for an Inon Multi Ball arm is for mounting a small focusing light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/845ea444-b82c-426d-ad55-cf1564fd221c/CarbonTelescopicArm_TelescopicImage_X-2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to Strobe Arms for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out INON’s suggested setups for using their telescopic arms with strobes is to just have one arm for each strobe and two clamps and adjust the arm length. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/5/21/cold-shoe-mounts-for-underwater-camera-housings monthly 0.5 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1c17cb70-956a-4b25-bc88-525cacf33c49/Philwithgoproohousing.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Cold Shoe Mounts for Underwater Camera Housings - Make it stand out This is me with a GoPro mounted via a ball & clamp system to the cold shoe of an Olympus housing. I started doing this after a dolphin came to check me out on safety stop when I had a macro lens on the camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/13831fcc-4843-4ee3-930a-77f43fd0822c/nauticamhousing.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Cold Shoe Mounts for Underwater Camera Housings - Make it stand out If you have a Nauticam housing you will usually have the option of mounting a ball mount directly to the housing using an M10 screw hole. This is more secure and sturdy in my view compared to cold shoe mounts and is what Anne has her focusing light attached to in this picture. A standard M10 ball mount is £35 and one with a lanyard hole is £42. Nauticam still give you a cold shoe mount to use as well so a mount you got for a previous housing may still be useable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/aa835386-140d-4a1f-892e-11a85d1f533f/shoebase2_usage1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Cold Shoe Mounts for Underwater Camera Housings - Make it stand out Inon’s little S2000 strobe on their Shoe Base Ball II mount makes for a simple option for lighting macro and close up pictures. Inon produce short fibre optic cables specifically for this type of setup. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/2a295d78-eefa-4a91-9479-1463e2237714/shoebase1-4-20unc.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Cold Shoe Mounts for Underwater Camera Housings - Make it stand out Inon’s Shoe Base 1/4-20UNC is basically a tripod head with a cold shoe mount and can in fact have the shoe mount removed to allow you to use it as a tripod head with compatible tripods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/0c5b0a8f-ff09-40bb-bc7b-23232fa5267c/05_xd_lens_holder_shoe_base_setup.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Cold Shoe Mounts for Underwater Camera Housings - Make it stand out This is the lens holder for Inon’s XD bayonet system on the cold shoe of an Olympus TG6 housing. Inon’s UWL-95S XD lens is a great option for use with the TG6 underwater, especially if you add one of the separate domes to it. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/4/26/what-do-the-aperture-settings-on-the-tg6-actually-do monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/6fed6666-323a-4022-b120-f01807f1f1b3/DOF-crop-1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What do the Aperture settings on the TG6 actually do? - Make it stand out The first picture is taken with aperture set to the ‘widest’ setting available for the focal length the lens was set to. In this case f4.9 with the lens zoomed to its longest focal length. Normally the widest aperture setting will give the shallowest depth of field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/2b06cea2-9b2b-4386-9c5a-6ffb701625c6/DOF-crop-2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What do the Aperture settings on the TG6 actually do? - Make it stand out This second picture was taken at the next of the three Aperture settings the TG6 offered. This time the f number was 6.3 with the lens still at the longest focal length. As would be expected with a conventional camera the smaller aperture gave slightly more depth of field so a bit more of the tape measure appears in focus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/82861cff-a232-48d8-a164-d2dd6a0cb099/DOF-crop-3.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What do the Aperture settings on the TG6 actually do? - Make it stand out But when I upped the f number again to what should be the smallest aperture setting of f18 the depth of field hasn’t increased. If anything it looks to be worse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/bd535e09-0fa4-465f-95b8-c62c20af7480/softcoral.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What do the Aperture settings on the TG6 actually do? - Make it stand out The high f number settings that use the ND filter still have the effect of reducing the amount of light in your pictures. This makes them useful for achieving dark backgrounds in your pictures, like in this picture of a coral in the Red Sea taken at a setting of f18. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/4/26/a-guide-to-1-ball-arm-clamps-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/3ea05809-4bff-4a8b-9ded-27e2620cb461/clamps-2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to 1" Ball Arm Clamps for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out From left to right: Nauticam, Deepshots and Divepro clamps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/24e53e87-2446-463e-99f0-dad9d6e8ddb3/clampiii.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to 1" Ball Arm Clamps for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out INON’s Clamp III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/5d9cd030-799a-40ab-8ed6-fbcf0dce53ba/Screenshot+2023-04-26+at+15.15.14.png The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to 1" Ball Arm Clamps for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Nauticam Multi-Purpose (MP) clamp with Shackle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/335b6aac-9834-43a3-b444-6f00fc32f17d/Philwithgoproohousing.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to 1" Ball Arm Clamps for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out An old picture of me with a Gopro mounted on my housing using a cold shoe ball mount, a GoPro ball mount and a long clamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/27920b9f-df58-4358-ae01-3bbc730ba8a2/clamps-1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A Guide to 1" Ball Arm Clamps for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out Triple clamp being used to mount a video/focusing light at the joint of two ball ended arms https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/4/12/lowest-shutter-speed-setting-on-the-olympus-tg-6-what-does-it-do-and-is-it-useful monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/8cd939e0-6c1e-4366-a190-e544afcf62b6/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+13.51.51.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out To find the setting in the TG6 or 7’s menus go to menu C in the Custom Menu and select ISO Auto Set https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/b343ca2b-f5e4-4549-8db2-9b2f1f8ac11e/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+13.54.35.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out You’ll then have two options one is the Upper Limit and Default for the Auto ISO range and the other is to set the Lowest S/S Setting. In this image the lowest shutter speed is set to 1/400s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/9c111316-cb4b-4d1d-971e-b33db8794c4d/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+13.59.08.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out This is the screen when you go into the Upper Limit/Default for controlling the Auto ISO range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/aa37726b-6cdf-4efa-ac27-ae1c69e0507f/Screenshot+2023-04-12+at+16.02.16.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out With the ISO Upper Limit set to 400 and the Lowest S/S Setting at 1/200s the camera set the Shutter Speed at 1/50s to take a picture of my Boba Fett Bobblehead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/a193f38c-1490-4872-954f-5b52c6276f3f/Screenshot+2023-04-12+at+16.03.00.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out With the ISO set manually to 400 and the Lowest S/S Setting no longer being in effect the camera still chose 1/50s. I did the test around my office with varying light levels and the shutter speeds always came out the same for equal ISO’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/24fed044-d049-4b7c-82d8-d4dd158d7d4d/anne1250s-1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out In bright ambient light the camera will give you very fast shutter speeds especially if you use a low f number to let more light in. That in turn helps keep your image sharp as in this image of Anne where the shutter speed was 1/1250s, Aperture f2.8 and ISO200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/25fea7e5-1f63-48ef-9a0e-925343b6170c/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+14.14.29.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out When ISO isn’t set to Auto the Lowest Shutter Speed setting isn’t applied and in this case the camera chose a shutter speed of 1/50s when the ISO was 400. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/f1d7debf-ee79-490c-95ba-91ed835e9ccb/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+14.18.13.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out In this screen capture the ISO was on Auto and the camera increased it to 400 which was its highest limit set by me. But because the flash is turned on the shutter speed has not dropped below 1/500s which was the limit I set even though the ambient light levels are the same as the previous image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/e84ed847-b1fc-4535-9525-dbf4294dfc94/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+14.23.25.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out With the backdrop removed and a window behind Bobba Fet, this image was taken with the ISO manually set to 400 and an f number of 4.5. The camera chose a shutter speed of 1/50s and as result the background is over exposed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/45a49ba4-67ec-40e6-a636-9ce6a8236266/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+14.23.10.png The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out In contrast this shot was taken with Auto ISO turned on and the camera chose the highest it was allowed to which was 400. Again f4.5 was the Aperture setting but the shutter speed lowest limit was set to 1/500s so it couldn’t go slower. There was a lot less time for ambient light to expose the background and thus very little of it is overexposed. In both pictures the bobblehead was lit with camera flash set on Manual 1/64 power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1c2369c8-3f30-473b-afa9-bf2133f4fd63/flamingotongue-1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - 'Lowest Shutter Speed Setting' on the Olympus TG-6 and OM System TG7. What does it do and is it useful? - Make it stand out In this image the deep blue behind this flamingo tongue mollusc was achieved with the shutter speed limited to 1/500s and f number of 18 from the highest f number setting and the lens zoomed to it’s longest focal length. Then I increased my strobe output to compensate for the high f number in lighting the foreground. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2023/2/28/taking-underwater-pictures-with-your-cameras-built-in-flash monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1647879788651-MLGJVUNE61721ZHYQ1UQ/diver-with-canon-s95.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Taking Underwater Pictures With Your Camera's Built-in Flash - Make it stand out Here’s Anne using a Canon S95 compact camera in a Canon brand housing fitted with a simple diffuser so that she can use the camera’s flash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/4eed731d-494d-422e-a15b-3e74dc25e202/nudibranch.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Taking Underwater Pictures With Your Camera's Built-in Flash - Make it stand out This image of a nudibranch was taken during last year’s Red Sea Photo Camp with a Canon G9X MkII in a Fantasea housing using the built-in flash. The Fantasea housing comes with an excellent diffuser which clips on near the end of the housing port. This reduces the amount of shadow caused by the port and softens the light so it isn’t harsh when used close to subjects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/4ce3f014-6e7e-4663-87de-792adb735bf1/moraybon.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Taking Underwater Pictures With Your Camera's Built-in Flash - Make it stand out This picture of a moray eel in Bonaire was taken using a Canon S95 in a Canon housing (as pictured above being used by Anne). It was during a night dive and I used a small torch in one hand so I could see and the camera focus but the image was lit by the flash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547753436936-MPV8SR8LZQIO7CEFPZBN/lizardfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Taking Underwater Pictures With Your Camera's Built-in Flash - Make it stand out The Olympus brand housings for their TG5 & TG6 Tough cameras have flash diffusers built-in and the lack of a protruding lens port means you can get close to subjects like this lizardfish without the light being blocked. But get too close such as when using the Microscope mode or Super Macro focus setting and you may find that the subject isn’t in the spread of the flash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1595953202604-JM82RQCBLWQTO3NTG7NZ/bullhead.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Taking Underwater Pictures With Your Camera's Built-in Flash - Make it stand out This shot of a bullhead under a pier in North Wales was one of the first pictures I took underwater in the UK using a digital camera. The camera in question was the excellent Fujifilm F30 in a Fujifilm housing. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2022/11/27/using-adobe-photoshop-to-remove-backscatter-in-underwater-pictures monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/9692cfbc-86e5-47ca-8e04-47f71e976ba1/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.00.06.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out Photoshop history panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/9bc48842-96a1-41b0-8d98-9671b022d159/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.05.11.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out The Filter Menu with Dust and Scratches highlighted in the Noise sub menu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/0e7b71be-b299-4311-8189-6dbfba16810f/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.10.50.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out Dust and Scratches Tool https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/ed9a409e-12ac-44b3-8549-d5880513bb6f/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.18.04.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out This was the setting I used to remove the backscatter in part of one of my images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/b461d63a-8e7c-43c0-a73a-4300b77ecac3/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.17.30.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out Section of an image with some backscatter and debris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/be3cd321-371d-4507-988c-89387c0dbfb8/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.17.47.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out After filter has been applied https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/f0e405e9-21f2-49b5-9f51-cc790dcfb7b1/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.21.59.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out Detail area of the same image before filter applied https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/94243db2-eb7b-4b1b-9ea5-94b892ed70c4/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.24.12.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out After Filter is applied that detail is lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/e247abab-ea87-49a0-bb38-cf4abb37aee0/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.30.40.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out This is what you should now have in the History panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/f6388619-adc9-4c12-8055-6a0be0fa0b0c/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+18.32.38.png The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out History brush selected in tools https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/f2b6c3c0-0d7e-4ec4-b3f2-7abc551dca3b/backscatter.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out Here’s a section of the image with backscatter in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1902a95a-d47d-489a-b6ce-56125d75fabe/backscatter+removed.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out Here it is removed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1fef35cb-7474-44a8-995a-94b57b9aa361/urchin+without+backscatter.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Using Adobe Photoshop to Remove Backscatter in Underwater Pictures - Make it stand out Here’s the complete image. One of many pics of the very photogenic common sea urchins in Loch Inchard which I took during this year’s Kinlochbervie workshop. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2022/11/25/we-sell-diving-and-underwater-photography-books monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/062db500-7faa-4fba-a9b0-9d4c6a9cd93f/eBay-4-15.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - We sell diving and underwater photography books! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2022/9/7/maintenance-tips-for-underwater-photography-equipment monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1647879788651-MLGJVUNE61721ZHYQ1UQ/diver-with-canon-s95.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Maintenance Tips for Underwater Photography Equipment - Make it stand out If you buy a used underwater camera housing it’s wise to still give it a test dive without a camera in it. Go to the kind of depths you would normally and operate all the controls at depth to make sure everything functions without leaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1592916783931-GGDZNSNS0QW5PASAOO6I/25mmanne.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Maintenance Tips for Underwater Photography Equipment - Make it stand out Aluminium housings like this Nauticam that Anne is using have very long lifespans if looked after. If you have one and like the camera that fits it, I recommend you pick up an extra camera or two on the used market. It’s usually the camera that will wear out before the housing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1598376418232-MBIPJKA2VKRYW2NPMCOM/TG5-camera.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Maintenance Tips for Underwater Photography Equipment - Make it stand out There’s an oft used acronym when people ask questions about equipment on Facebook, RTFM. Read The F****** Manual. But lets be honest camera manuals are usually quite weighty and filled with info about features you might never use. So don’t feel bad if some of the important things slip by. Distilling these tomes down to the useful information and passing it on is one of the things that keeps me busy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/47c90aef-9fa6-4500-8e1a-f87b993e54f3/rinsetank.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Maintenance Tips for Underwater Photography Equipment - Make it stand out Not leaving your camera gear in the rinse tank doesn’t just keep it safe from damage, it leaves space for other people to rinse their gear when they get out. On a photography workshop there may be quite a lot of cameras needing rinsing after each dive, don’t hog the rinsing facilities. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2022/7/5/the-inon-ucl-67-underwater-close-up-lens monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/94d107dd-7d9b-4bb8-bde1-0dca387da58a/ucl-67_m67.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The INON UCL-67 Underwater Close-up Lens - Make it stand out The UCL-67 is available in M67 threaded, INON LD mount and the new INON XD bayonet mount system versions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/b4cc6c10-16ec-40e3-afc0-09da59a7decf/goby+on+coral+UCL-67.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The INON UCL-67 Underwater Close-up Lens - Make it stand out A tiny goby on a hard coral at Marsa Shagra Village in the Red Sea. The close focusing distance that the UCL-67 gives means that depth of field even at small aperture settings is very shallow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/14f1fa85-f6ea-4c79-a961-6f139a2e142b/leather+coral+UCL-67.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The INON UCL-67 Underwater Close-up Lens - Make it stand out Leather coral polyps. I found the UCL-67 produced sharp results with no noticeable chromatic aberration when used with my Olympus OM-D EM10 MkII fitted with the Panasonic-Leica 45mm macro lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/03c21097-2435-4f7b-bba3-d5f0f23a3b5d/ornate+ghost+pipefish+nose.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The INON UCL-67 Underwater Close-up Lens - Make it stand out This slightly odd shot of an ornate ghost pipefish’s snout was taken using an Olympus 75mm f1.8 lens and the UCL-67. The 75mm isn’t a lens normally used for underwater photography and it’s focal length is outside the range that Inon recommends for use with the UCL-67. But as can be seen the results can still be sharp. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2022/4/28/choosing-a-compact-camera-for-underwater-photography-phil-medcalf-and-adam-hanlon-chat-on-wetpixel-live monthly 0.5 2025-07-05 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2022/3/21/phil-and-adam-hanlon-talk-about-using-compact-cameras-underwater-on-wetpixel-live monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2020/12/1/gift-ideas-for-divers monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607279135007-8SH5JOUKC3IEVCAVD13C/1-2-706x706.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 The 220 lumen Divepro D1 is an ideal little torch to keep in BC or Drysuit pocket as a handy back up. It’s only £39.95 and we can supply it. Drop us an email to order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607187916211-CAQUOA1DGR82XAS5T7N3/home_image10.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 David worked for many years as a dive guide. Anne and I first met him guiding on the Maldives liveaboard boat Sea Spirit. We have one of his prints of an eagle ray drawn from a picture taken at Rasdhoo, an awesome dive site that’s a favourite of ours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607186459714-THXYR1NKJJQJ74XUWFXF/1591284531-sealifeturtle2500ml-1.png The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 10% of sales of the Chilly’s Sea Life range is going to the City to Sea charity who aim to reduce plastic pollution at source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607183223506-5O534YBN5DPZT000HN1J/ROCKPOOLmultilimpetbracelet20200525_142022_1080x.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 Limpet Shell Bracelet in silver by Alison Moore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607184162626-UQEK4N7WAGDSASTZZASA/El_Camino_-_Black_Double_Div_1024x1024.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 As well as glass ‘steps’ for oceans, seas and continents you can also buy stainless steel ones for countries, small steps (mainly cities), adventure steps with pictures to represent activities and custom made ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607185067365-2K2XASYP43LE4GQAZ2BJ/Screen+Shot+2020-12-05+at+16.17.32.png The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 Unfortunately for Anne, under our house rules she can’t have this very cool hammerhead shark pendant (£49) until she’s seen some on a dive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607278145387-6OZ6JFV3LQM8E69XFKVN/promo.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 Books are a major feature of my list to Santa every year. Eventually I might finish reading all the ones I already have, but probably not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607189910504-Y4FHVDAZ5EXPOB04XS7M/il_794xN.2718617599_stx7.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 Not just for on a diver’s wall, an underwater photography calendar is a great gift to show non-divers what they are missing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1607277093017-DOTI7IMSZ6OK8GQFJVU2/517-0-0-0-10000-10000-546.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Gift Ideas for Divers 2020 Got that warm water diving trip in your head for next year? How about a pair of Poseidon Flip Flops for £14? https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2020/7/28/power-saving-tips-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1597250544683-WX5R0UCTS6JDWWEIKOLM/canong9x.png The Alphamarine Blog - Camera Power Saving Tips for Underwater Photography The Canon Powershot compact cameras are very popular for underwater photography and most have a manual flash setting that allows you to reduce the output for strobe triggering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1597249886449-JJXFLUASBTAZXSISCR8H/fantaseastrobetrigger.png The Alphamarine Blog - Camera Power Saving Tips for Underwater Photography LED strobe triggers like this one made by Fantasea can be used to optically trigger strobes instead of the camera’s flash. They are ideal for cameras like the Sony A6 series that don’t have manual flash settings. But you do need a hotshoe on your camera and enough space inside your housing for the trigger assembly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1597255418951-XHU09LSBZPXGTEWMNX6D/olympustg5housing.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Camera Power Saving Tips for Underwater Photography Turning off the various GPS based features on the Olympus TG5 (shown here in its housing) before you take it for a dive is a three step procedure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1597255677931-C552K43FCE0WKILNS4L6/backofboat.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Camera Power Saving Tips for Underwater Photography There’s always opportunity to get some pictures on a dive, right up until you are back on the boat. But you need some battery charge left. As your battery gets low you’ll see the recycling rate of the built-in flash get slower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1597250203719-PLVLICFWNCUWLUZ5OZRP/a6500batterypack.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Camera Power Saving Tips for Underwater Photography Another way to address issues with lack of battery life is to add more battery. This battery pack can be fitted to a Sony A6500 camera in a Nauticam housing to supplement the camera’s own battery. This is ideal for videography where power consumption can be very large. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2020/6/21/underwater-photography-chat-with-paul-duxy-duxfield-and-mark-evans-from-scuba-diver-magazine monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2019/4/19/a-short-guide-to-going-on-safari monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1573587104552-N772VV0U0TESBRF8R6YH/malelion.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A short guide to going on safari Be prepared to use your camera on manual. The game drives on our trip were early morning and late afternoon, so light levels weren’t high. To get fast shutter speeds to deal with potentially moving creatures and using a telephoto lens handheld we often had to push up ISO’s and use larger apertures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1573617676084-MYL8A3Y5TLT39CZO980S/hornbill.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A short guide to going on safari Stops for breakfast and sundowners while out on game drives are nice opportunity to stretch your legs and sometimes see some of the smaller wildlife up close. This cheeky hornbill was hanging around a rest stop in the Kruger National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1573616543980-O0FYRERS5X2GSLFDIR7U/whipscorpion.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A short guide to going on safari This fearsome looking critter is actually a harmless whip scorpion that I found living on the wall of an out building at one of the camps. If you are into small creatures like this, it’s worth taking a macro lens with you. This was taken using the Panasonic-Leica 45mm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1573588628849-NJDXOQLDYIV8TOUOAUL6/leopard.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A short guide to going on safari While the less well known creatures were really interesting, our encounters with leopards were some of the highlights. This female was stalking a small herd of impala in Thornybush Game Reserve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1574965279068-LJZMNQ7B4V1QSIP95OBB/snake.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A short guide to going on safari Anne is a big fan of snakes, so we were pleased to see this little one which wasn’t dangerous. I think she would’ve been happier if we’d got to meet some bigger ones but no such luck. Shot with the Panasonic 45mm macro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1574873764345-7QKX1B58GIGXBM3BP6Z7/nightleopard.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A short guide to going on safari Not the best shot of a leopard ever, but this image taken at ISO 16000 with very little light and was used to identify this individual we saw one evening at Wild Rivers Game Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1574875360123-VSOPP0Z1HK11BSL0W86G/huntingdogs.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A short guide to going on safari My top tip for a first time safari, even if you consider yourself a serious photographer, is relax and enjoy the encounters rather than spending the whole time thinking about getting the best pics. This shot (taken with the Olympus 25mm will never win a competition but it’s a memento of the fantastic moment when a pack of rare African hunting dogs wandered up to the truck and hung around while the pups checked us out up close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1574874428598-I6L378IPZ3KMST29BNZR/philvulture.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A short guide to going on safari As part of the trip we got to spend some time at the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre including a chance to feed some very large vultures. Love the one at the bottom of shot hoping it’s mate will drop something. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2019/10/9/a-guide-to-buying-used-underwater-photography-equipment monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1572291780023-ZS98INLBSGA5QDRM0TQV/philcamera.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A guide to buying used underwater photography equipment In this picture I’m using an Olympus EPL3 camera in an Olympus housing. This was a great entry into mirrorless compact system cameras as the housing would accept both the Olympus 14-42mm kit lens but also the excellent Panasonic 45mm macro and was a lot cheaper than the other housings for the EPL3. On top of that unlike some of the Olympus housings for their EPL cameras it had threads to add wet lenses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1572290542732-L4RGF4YFDSNSJOMIIMFG/RX100+housing The Alphamarine Blog - A guide to buying used underwater photography equipment Apart from the latest super zoom models (MkVI and MkVII) Sony haven’t changed the control layout or dimensions of their RX100 compact by more than than a tiny amount in a long time. This means a housing like this Fantasea will take the MkIII, IV, V and VA camera. Be aware that Nauticam’s tolerances are so fine that this is not true for their RX100 housings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1572289851725-PY0U5HC8KF1JRBZY2O43/shrimps95.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A guide to buying used underwater photography equipment This shot of a common prawn on a pier in Wales was taken with a Canon S95 compact in a very well used Canon housing that I picked up on the used market with a tray and INON lens mount. I then added a macro lens and a single strobe to get this picture which won the compact category of a ‘Splash In’ competition a couple of years ago. Not bad for a camera made in 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1572290748650-52V4E2WM8HVE0RQCYUCR/s2000magnet.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A guide to buying used underwater photography equipment One of the most lost items of underwater photography equipment is the little magnet that goes under the screw circled red on this INON S2000. But never fear replacement ones are available and don’t cost a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1572289368460-AEOXWU4UTAT5VKMIMRSQ/uwls100zm80wide+angle+wet+lens The Alphamarine Blog - A guide to buying used underwater photography equipment The catchily titled INON UWL S100 ZM80 Wide Conversion Lens is specifically aimed at super zoom cameras with housings that have deep wide ports. Because of this it doesn’t suit all housing and camera combinations so they do turn up on the used market at reasonable prices when people change cameras and no longer need them. You can add domes to these to make them very wide angle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1572291220898-C7NAZ7S0M1W5BHLA2U3D/singlestrobe.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - A guide to buying used underwater photography equipment The strobe in this shot has been fitted with a so called YS mount but to use it with a ball and clamp system a short length of arm with a YS fitting at one end and a ball at the other has been added to Anne’s arm setup. INON strobes and the larger Sea and Sea models have removable mounts that can be either YS or ball. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2019/8/29/underwater-photography-clichs-part-one-its-the-photographer-not-the-camera monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1567107501854-LAD69PX9OBFWVLRD3GNI/squirrelfish-2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography Clichés Part One: "It's the photographer not the camera" One of the first pictures I took underwater that I was really pleased with. The result of having a good camera for my budget (the legendary Fuji Finepix F30) combined with teaching and encouragement from Paul ‘Duxy’ Duxfield on the first Red Sea workshop he ever ran. Now we run workshops together! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1567105953799-DSIREPSS3QJG7T9ROH4D/macrophotographer.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography Clichés Part One: "It's the photographer not the camera" There’s right and wrong in this phrase for sure. Some pictures will not be acheivable without the right equipment but you do need to know how to use it. Many divers with cameras will have taken good pictures on occasions but knowing how you got it and being able to do it again are the route to being an underwater photographer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1567108448753-0M31ERFRH8LZVARWHOO2/manta.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography Clichés Part One: "It's the photographer not the camera" Getting a picture is often not just about your ability and the equipment it’s also about going to where you need to be for the subject and in the case of this shot getting very lucky to be carried by a current directly underneath a very chilled out manta. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2019/6/30/what-makes-a-good-camera-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520501654837-KXC623NM4EVYQRY9D8RE/Porcelain-crab.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This shot of an anemone porcelain crab was taken in the Maldives using available light and custom white balance. The camera was a Canon S95 in a Canon housing with an INON macro wet lens. When taking macro pictures using available light you need to be especially conscious of not blocking the sun and putting your subject in shadow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520501484123-1V8AP4O1RLI97SKHUXB2/Staghorn-sculpture.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? Another Canon S95 shot, this time taken by Anne using an INON wide angle wet lens. Underwater remember that the sunlight has to travel from the subject to your camera as well as from the surface to the subject. The closer you are to the subject the more colourful and sharp your images will look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520501323316-54H0GBLGJNJFGN3SRGWR/Nudi-on-scorpionfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This shot of a nudibranch taking a shortcut over a scorpionfish was made using an earlier camera than the S95, a Fuji Finepix F30 which was a hugely popular compact for underwater partly because of its excellent Custom White Balance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1561915952784-TG1I44DOO72EKX2V2RLH/turtleRAW1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This image was taken at a shallow enough depth for there to be coloured light but the overwhelming coulours are blue and green because of the effect of the water. the ability to fix this on computer means you can simply set the camera white balance to Auto whether shooting available light or using flash. This in turn reduces your task load underwater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1561916198338-7BZ6T0VW321SQC1ZY66E/turtleRAW2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? Because of the greater quantity of information included in a RAW file colours can be corrected more effectively than with jpegs as long as levels of coloured light are enough. A shot taken at depths where no red or yellow light reaches will look very washed out when colour corrected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520514429389-PWEC7ETC15K2Z5LMPVCZ/RAW3.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This image of a goby has been under exposed substantially by a combination of not enough flash and a small aperture setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520514491163-3Y3LNFJ5ZLA95PSPGR0K/RAW4.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? Here’s the same picture after a minute or so’s editing, mainly adjusting the exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1561916757639-NE0LN34UBUOQ7OCZITD1/squatyRAW2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This image of a squat lobster has been over exposed because a quite large aperture was used along with flash to light it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1561916825865-JP0X7SBBVOUZE57I09RT/squatyRAW3.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? Producing this version of the image was just a matter of moving a few sliders in Adobe Lightroom, a simple process once you know how https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520521894803-RTBBJ4H8WP2I3AMGTLLN/wide1.001.jpeg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? Image by Paul Duxfield https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520521951187-53Z9V0GQ0FKPE0PLPG4O/Wide2.001.jpeg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? Image by Paul Duxfield https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520522656792-Y2GE7P03N9GGMJ6PV50G/Anne-Kingston.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This image was taken with an Olympus EM10 MkII camera with an 8mm Olympus fisheye lens in a Nauticam housing, the same setup as Anne is holding in the picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520526411181-NIVU9IKLG3AO2O7DYSPO/Nurse-shark.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? Wide angle wet lenses are not the sole domain of compact camera users, they also perform well with interchangeable lens cameras when used with kit lenses in flat, threaded ports. The above image of a nurse shark was taken using an Olympus EPL-3 in an Olympus housing fitted with an Inon wide angle wet lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520527124420-Z6WZ4WTEVDC3VURMAIBB/Wreck-bonaire.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? There are a number of excellent wide angle lenses currently on the market including offerings by Inon, Fantasea and Nauticam. Inon in particular specialise in making wet lenses and adapters to work with many of the branded camera housings. The image above was taken using a Canon S95 in a Canon housing fitted with an Inon lens mount and Inon wide angle wet lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520528755252-EU5Z6A8KXLHAFL9TB7AI/Anne-S95.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? For those on a limited budget it’s often better to look for a used camera and housing than spending your funds on a new camera that doesn’t have the appropriate features. This Canon S95 in a Canon housing has all the features to be a great underwater camera and could be picked up on eBay for less than £200 if you get lucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520529400923-M0GXTUQA7NGKQ89XKXMD/Ribbon-eel.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? In this picture a wide aperture was used to give a shallow depth of field so that not much more than the eyes of this ribbon eel are in focus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520529449206-GYH8H9YINSFEV1NLZFKL/Scorpionfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This image of a scorpion fish was taken using one strobe with the cameras shutter speed as high as possible. In this case the camera was a mirrorless one and flash sync speed (the fastest shutter speed at which you can use the flash without getting shadow from the shutter curtain in your shots) was 1/160. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520529500932-PTZW4ONJ8UM22LZA4FG6/Kingston-stern.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? In this shot of the stern of Kingston in the Egyptian Red Sea strobes were used to light the foreground while the shutter speed was adjusted to achieve the blue colour and surface effect in the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520530340019-B1ACXBHKN63H4QLXAWY0/Phil-closeup.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? With any flash you need to be close to the subject because the water will reduce the distance the light will travel making it much less effective than it would be in air. But you don't necessarily have to be as close as this rather scary shot of me taken by Anne using the built in flash on a Canon S95 camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520530379188-GW4QJYXM5P87HQVQM3YV/Moray-built-in-flash.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? A useful tip is that you'll get more even lighting of your subject shooting portrait with the flash at the top than when shooting landscape. That’s how I took this image of a Spotted Moray in Bonaire, again using the Canon S95 in a Canon underwater housing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520530488859-BQHED6P3FEBM4E1HIDZK/s-2000.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This is an INON S2000 strobe. It’s small, not overly expensive, has manual control and quite a lot of power for its size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520530690929-J9Z41FLCCW724UCAKGDD/Red-sponge.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This shot was taken in the Egyptian Red Sea using a pair of strobes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520530750976-XSRK63GU3WKEOJP91DAA/Snooted-goby.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? This is image was taken using a single strobe fitted with a snoot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1544470980057-D7VZBTYPRHBK6M76KIII/singlestrobe.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good camera for underwater photography? The Olympus Micro Four-Thirds mirrorless cameras like the OMD EM10 MkII that Anne is using in a Nauticam housing here, really hit the sweet spot of a sensor that is large enough to give good dynamic range but small enough that the housing required isn’t huge and very expensive. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2019/5/13/get-the-best-underwater-pictures-from-your-gopro-part-one monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1558024679359-K0HTUA5S3I0NXLIQFBOH/philgopro.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get better underwater pictures from your GoPro: Equipment Here’s me using the setup discussed in this blog while diving in the Egyptian Red Sea at Marsa Shagra Village. Having two lengths of arm and three clamps gives more flexibility when positioning whatever light source you are using. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1558025640766-6JTJNEHR6WG6IHG9LA44/stingraygopro.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get better underwater pictures from your GoPro: Equipment This shot was taken with the setup shown in the picture above. I’ll discuss light coverage later on in the blog. In this pic the pool of light has created quite a nice effect and the Hero 3 impressed me by how sharp this image came out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1558026754666-3FLRSTFLKPUAH8R5AR56/filtergopro.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get better underwater pictures from your GoPro: Equipment Fitting a coloured filter isn’t a panacea to fix the colours in your images. While it can give the camera’s own white balancing system a helping hand in varied light like this shot issues occur. At the top where light levels are greater we’ve got a reddish-purple tint while the lower part of the shot is greener than I’m happy with. There are ways of correcting this using software but at shallow depth pictures like this often look better when you don’t use a filter at all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1558031790784-HAZDTBHI8LBZ5HJV3Y9Q/sdfrontmaskforhero5_uclg165sd.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get better underwater pictures from your GoPro: Equipment INON produce some fantastic accessories for action cameras including close up lenses and the mounts to attach them onto GoPros and other action cameras. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1558025064960-NYHFKR7VJHX7ONFMMLIX/diveprohandle The Alphamarine Blog - Get better underwater pictures from your GoPro: Equipment If you are looking for a single handle for mounting your action camera and a light the DivePro Z09 looks like being a great option. Hopefully we’ll have one to test in the near future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1558027292139-GELPQ7Z3RM1S46G2R72B/035351f83e.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get better underwater pictures from your GoPro: Equipment While the P53 did an excellent job of lighting some of my pictures like the stingray above, the extra features it has beyond being video light make it less suitable for using with a GoPro than a normal video light like this V4K also produced by Scubalamp https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/10/25/got-the-camera-want-a-housing monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1556288761087-ZI815SABWBD80JSAN0U1/annecoral.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Got the camera, want an underwater housing? There’s a common myth that you need to spend huge amounts of money on equipment to get into underwater photography. This image was Anne’s first competition success (2nd place in Sunday Times Travel Magazine’s photo competition) and was taken with a Canon S95 compact in a Canon housing with an INON wide angle wet lens. Even new the setup cost well below £1000 and you can still pick up these cameras and housings on the used market. I’ve seen them go for under £200 on Ebay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1556286432894-V6ND61W0FMDX7SVCY1M6/colouranemone.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Got the camera, want an underwater housing? To get Close Focus Wide Angle shots like this using an interchangeable lens camera you really need to be using a fisheye lens on the camera itself. This picture was taken using an Olympus OMD EM10 MkII camera fitted with an Olympus 8mm Pro Fisheye lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1556286831526-GYZP6ZWFG6XZLC4T2Y9U/crabnudi.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Got the camera, want an underwater housing? In my view there is a ‘sweet spot’ where the maximum value for money can be achieved when buying a camera and housing for underwater photography. This is the region occupied by high end compacts like the Canon G9X MkII (that this image was taken with) and some of the mirrorless cameras like the Olympus OMD EM10 MkII or MkIII. Beyond this in my opinion the law of diminishing returns kicks in and you can spend a lot more money for only fractional improvements in your pictures. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2019/3/21/strobes-versus-video-lights-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1553716861919-JF6SO9NV2IO79H3PMUZZ/nudi-vidlight.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Strobes vs video lights for underwater photography Before I moved over to using strobes I had a Canon S95 compact camera and a 600 Lumen video light. That’s what this shot was taken with. Nowadays that output is quite tiny for a video light. When I moved to using a strobe it felt like a huge step up particularly because it was much easier to get sharp images of more active marine life than this nudibranch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1553784035485-YL129RKV0MZ68XPCT9ZA/videolight-S95.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Strobes vs video lights for underwater photography This is me with the rig I took the nudibranch image with. Anne took this picture using the same model camera as I am using but with available light and custom white balance. I wasn’t using the light when this was taken which will be clear later in this blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1553777933127-ISIDCW6D5F3MCOB0U1QG/moray-night.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Strobes vs video lights for underwater photography At night, at depth or in an overhead environment you are going to need a constant light source to see what you are doing whether you are using flash or not. This shot was taken using the same Canon S95 and video light as the nudibranch but in this case the sun had gone down and the only light source was the one I carried. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/cb46ecd7-fecb-40f0-8313-bb160f7a8461/nudimobile.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Strobes vs video lights for underwater photography - Make it stand out When using action cameras or mobile phones that lack a conventional built-in flash to trigger strobes, constant lights are the only option for adding light. This shot of a pair of nudibranchs was taken on one of my workshops at Kinlochbervie, Scotland using an iPhone 12 mini in a DiveVolk underwater housing and lit with a Kraken LTD2500 video light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1587222036119-8O27PVHEIQ12LA6EYZCS/lf1100h-ewf_frontside_20190910140332184.png The Alphamarine Blog - Strobes vs video lights for underwater photography The INON LF1100h-EWf is an 1100 lumen focusing light with a 100° beam angle. While it can be used as a light source for photography or video its primary use is to help the camera to focus (who would’ve guessed) when light levels are low. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1553783753526-53014IV1EFB1QCPVIWUX/red-light.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Strobes vs video lights for underwater photography In this shot taken by Anne using available light and custom white balance you can see another of the issues that using video lights can cause. While it doesn’t impact on the user, for other underwater photographers not using artificial lighting in their shots having unsightly red patches appear in their pictures may not be desirable. This was quite deep for using available light so there is still a bit of blue tint in the image. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2019/1/27/how-to-get-the-best-from-your-tg5-underwater-part-two-settings-and-technique monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1548617981325-P8T1C0DUKA4LVQJ2PA4H/TG5puffereye.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 Underwater. Part two: Settings and Technique This is the eye of a very large starry puffer (Arothron stellatus) that was being cleaned by the bluestreaked cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiates) who decided to do some photo bombing. This shot was taken in aperture priority mode (Av) using a single strobe for lighting. With any camera I’m using I tend to make most of my exposure adjustments to the strobe settings and positions rather than the camera settings once I decide how I want a shot to look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1548622114770-PBR4G2BBL6CKACRAVM7V/TG5cwb.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 Underwater. Part two: Settings and Technique This shot of Anne with her big camera rig was taken using the TG5 in Olympus housing fitted with the Fantasea UWL-400F wide angle lens. I used natural light and custom white balance to correct the colours rather than software. This was probably around 7-8m depth so there was still enough red light to show the colour of Anne’s nails. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1548620822544-OX98K32Z2YUV58L7JVE7/TG5micropolyps.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 Underwater. Part two: Settings and Technique Microscope mode did a pretty good job with these polyps on a soft coral, but the very short distance from the lens to the subject as for any camera means very shallow depth of field. This is why the polyps in the foreground are out of focus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1548622271839-U4PE1G0C4YUNQUD1QYEP/TG5stingray.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 Underwater. Part two: Settings and Technique Lack of shutter speed control was an issue with this shot. Even with EV set to -2 the camera gave me a shutter speed of 1/30sec which gave me a very pale blue through the window in the coral. I made it darker using editing software but it isn’t exactly the colour I would’ve liked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1548622465916-LJYBYKWD50D03FX1XS00/TG5microeye.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 Underwater. Part two: Settings and Technique Macro is the TG5’s greatest strength. Here I used Microscope mode and the built-in flash to get an image of Anne’s eye through her mask. And for once it wasn’t steamed up! https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2019/1/11/get-the-best-from-your-olympus-tg5-part-one-accessories monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547753436936-MPV8SR8LZQIO7CEFPZBN/lizardfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 underwater. Part one: Accessories You can achieve some pretty good results just using the built-in flash as in this shot but most third party housings for the Tg5 and its predecessors don’t allow you to use this. In my view this is a big point in the Olympus housing’s favour especially for the newcomer to underwater photography who may not want to be encumbered with a strobe or lighting setup, or is on a tight budget. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547752490287-5SYCLLQOV7FX9CMJIE8H/tg5wideangle.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 underwater. Part one: Accessories The UWL-400F looks quite big on the petite TG5 housing but compared to some of its more expensive cousins it’s quite compact and easy to handle. Always wise to keep the dome covered when not in use as like almost all domed wet lenses, it’s coated polycarbonate and if scratched can’t just be polished by hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547754996801-U44XMBRH8A6VU3QKD4EE/sandperch.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 underwater. Part one: Accessories This sandperch over the bottom was taken using the Fantasea wide angle wet lens and a single strobe. Due to shooting facing the sun there is a little bit of lens flare visible below the fish. I would’ve taken a few shots from different angles but these fish are very skittish and it didn’t hang around to give me another chance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547753238747-HY6AF8VZNHYTK7MIFXOD/squirrelfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 underwater. Part one: Accessories This squirrel fish image was taken using the TG5 and a single strobe. Using a single strobe results in more shadow than using a pair. In this shot the angle of the fish has put one side of its face slightly in shadow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547752750423-PERJYMW9V54EOG5B62F2/TG5strobe.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 underwater. Part one: Accessories Housing, strobe setup and focusing light ready for a dusk dive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547756781506-9ZCS6ZJEVICE2FOW68SX/turtle.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 underwater. Part one: Accessories One of the advantages of using strobes rather than video lights is that many marine creatures don’t find them as annoying. Most turtles for example will happily let you take multiple shots using flash but will move off quickly if you shine a bright light at them. If a creature appears distressed by you taking its picture find something else to photograph and if you need a focusing light keep it set low whenever possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1579117219855-76ZD1QD6H7M548JHEXCF/Nauticam+WWL-C The Alphamarine Blog - Get the best from your Olympus TG5 underwater. Part one: Accessories The Nauticam WWL-C is coming out in 2020. I can’t help feeling that this lighter and somewhat cheaper sibling of the WWL-1 is very much aimed at the TG users who want to get serious about underwater photography with an adaptor for the Olympus housing being one of the accessories that will available. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/12/10/moreaboutstrobes monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547141761613-EBE3Q7SK6B6RZGSJGNBS/annestrobe.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 3 : More about strobes The Sea and Sea YS-D2 strobe Anne is using in this picture has a guide number of 32 but the diffuser fitted to it to increase its spread to 120° from 80° reduces the output to a guide number of 20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547143912807-3SJ39W42TWDIF2WJ1K36/strobedomefilter_nd_usage.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 3 : More about strobes This is the INON Z330 strobe fitted with an ND filter it reduces the strobe output to give you the equivalent of having extra power settings below it’s normal lowest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547149107528-71T3XE7UVKDUQY29PSXW/commonprawn.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 3 : More about strobes This shot of a common prawn was taken in shallow water during the day using a Canon S95 compact camera with a singe strobe. Achieving a dark background was made easier because the camera doesn’t have a maximum sync speed allowing me to use a shutter speed of 1/400sec (although I could have gone much faster) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547149665216-Z6QXK1VX2YMCAIPE0I4G/fantaseastrobetrigger.jpg.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 3 : More about strobes Fantasea are one of a number of manufactures who make strobe triggers to fit cameras with hotshoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1547154558378-IZ7OWUT5N3AQRHS6ULBL/TG5strobe.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 3 : More about strobes We spent Christmas at Red Sea Diving Safari’s Marsa Shagra resort where I had quite a bit of time shooting with an Olympus TG5 and a range of accessories. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/12/9/underwater-photography-faqs-volume-2-strobes monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1544465529827-KV4UCX1U99UHFA0FIKDV/Z330_1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 2 : Strobes The Z330 is the top of the range strobe produced by INON. The moveable peaked hood is designed to reduce backscatter in shots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1544472833233-FT428C1SZ8S0OAZ0ILIK/leopardblenny.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 2 : Strobes When using two strobes in a confined space you may struggle to get both in a position to light your subject easily. In this case the right side of the blenny is in shadow because the fire coral blocked my righthand strobe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1544465827007-JO7QTBNF2PBSY2EIX9MJ/Z240controls.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 2 : Strobes Many strobes like this INON Z240 allow the user to adjust the output when in TTL mode to some degree. But why not use it on manual as you are only going to be using the same dial anyway but in manual you’ll have greater control. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1544470980057-D7VZBTYPRHBK6M76KIII/singlestrobe.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 2 : Strobes You don’t have to buy two strobes. One will do a great deal. Here Anne is a using a single INON S2000 placed above the lens port to give even lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1544465713588-SMNFA1549F73VGFXXCS7/s2000magnet.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 2 : Strobes The screw circled in red is where the magnet is fitted to set the INON S2000 to work without preflash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1544472511435-0IHOWT7973WE3QDSK524/ys-01.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ's Volume 2 : Strobes Controls on the back of a Sea & Sea YS-01. The two lightning bolts on the left hand dial is for when using with preflash on your camera and the single solid lightning bolt is without preflash. When using your camera’s flash set to manual (if it lets you) it won’t fire a preflash. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/11/15/underwater-photography-faqs-volume-one-domes monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1577986539471-6EFG40FRDLV0WPLULUWW/FantaseaBigEye The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ’s Volume One : Domes This is a Fantasea BigEye lens which fits on to the flat port of a camera housing and restores the camera lens’ field of view to what it would be when used on land. These are cheaper and lighter than actual wide angle wet lenses but won’t give as wide an angle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1542648962824-2XS0KGQ3YRIMIKJDVOUU/anneanemone.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ’s Volume One : Domes Here’s Anne with her Olympus OMD EM10 MkII in a Nauticam housing. The lens she is using is an Olympus 8mm Fisheye which only needs quite a small dome port when used underwater. Non-fisheye lenses (rectilinear lenses) need larger dome ports. A tip when posing for shots like this, look at your reflection in the photographer’s dome to see whether you are in the right position. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/08cb5358-9c07-4c2f-8a1a-236c11313f33/ducksplit.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ’s Volume One : Domes You don’t need a dome to take a split shot.Tthis picture was taken by me using a Canon G9X MkII camera in a Fantasea housing with a flat port. The ‘magnifying’ effect can be seen in that the duck’s feet are a bit oversized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1542384781478-8SF6CYC0D5GOF7YJWDBN/FG7XMkIIwith+UWL09F The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ’s Volume One : Domes When using cameras with zoom lenses in an underwater housing you may have to zoom in somewhat to remove vignetting when shooting with a wide angle wet lens. This is the case with the G7X MkII in Fantasea housing and is the main reason we recommend the G9X MkII instead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1542384504399-43IN356VQ9A63PHYQ9LR/Nauticam+7%22+Acrylic+Dome The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ’s Volume One : Domes It is possible to polish scratches out of acrylic dome ports like this Nauticam one. While glass domes are harder to remove scratches from but somewhat more resistent to being scratched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1542649477372-J34630HGZ31ZZTF9GIAJ/turtleface.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Photography FAQ’s Volume One : Domes Turtles often find their reflections in domes very interesting. This is a rather scruffy, hawksbill in the Komodo National Park https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/9/5/the-truth-aboutfilters-for-underwater-photography monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/be53bec1-3b29-4770-8dd2-fb1d3ea82054/nudibranchonscorpionfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About.......Filters for Underwater Photography Taking underwater pictures with a compact camera using available light is a budget friendly way of getting started. Adding a filter can be helpful in getting better colours in your pictures. But with many cameras even quite old ones like the Fujifilm FinePix F30 used to take this picture of a nudibranch on a scorpionfish, filters are unnecessary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1537125369213-8XUUXIXM0SR9HXILPCW7/polar_pro_p1016_gopro_filter_3_pack_1178651.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About.......Filters for Underwater Photography A range of GoPro filters by one manufacturer including a magenta filter for use in green water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1537124605732-GATIDO35NYID98OW9C50/uwvariableredfilter.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About.......Filters for Underwater Photography The INON Variable Red Filter may well have been the Rolls Royce of underwater filters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/f616ef5b-c6df-468f-b4eb-3c5e75721985/fluro-coral.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About.......Filters for Underwater Photography - Make it stand out This image of fluorescent polyps on a coral was taken during a night dive during Red Sea Photo Camp. I used a 67mm yellow SRB Photographic filter made for black and white photography fitted to my housing port and a SUPE PV32T video light set to blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1537125402676-QUYLVD5F0PIUP3QMLT52/bonaire+wreck.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About.......Filters for Underwater Photography This shot was taken without a coloured filter using custom white balance on a Canon S95 compact camera. I don’t think a filter would have improved the colour in this picture greatly. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/3/13/automatic-for-the-people monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1536687792917-OKA75KIUJOZG8TSJBNLO/annecamera.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Automatic for the People? Why Auto is not a good mode for underwater photography Taking a camera (even a small one) underwater with you immediately adds more taskloading. While you get used to it Auto or Underwater mode can be a good starting point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1536686480881-7VEPJ3EX087NUL6S6EQT/bullhead.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Automatic for the People? Why Auto is not a good mode for underwater photography Just adding a small amount of control can drastically improve your underwater pictures. I took this picture with a Fuji F30, the first digital camera I ever took underwater, using P mode. This mode allowed me to set Custom White Balance, ISO and control overall exposure to a degree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1536688658752-ITMGPG28YR22H270F06J/bigeye.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Automatic for the People? Why Auto is not a good mode for underwater photography An image like this is unachievable without being able to control the camera settings. The dark red of this bigeye would make a camera on Auto adjust its exposure settings to deal with poor light. This would mean slower shutter speed than I used and wide aperture that would’ve caused less of the shot to be in focus and made the background much brighter. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/9/5/macro-musings-part-4-using-shallow-depth-of-field monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1586627179872-1U0ESM92JONVZ7APL18J/dof1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 4 : Using Shallow Depth of Field To show the change in depth of field, here is a shot taken with aperture set to f/2.8. This is the largest aperture for the lens used. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1586627277712-MV24N33M6J16STFQ8ATN/dof2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 4 : Using Shallow Depth of Field This second shpt was taken at the same distance with the same lens but aperture was set f/22. to keep the exposure the same for both shots the shutter speed had to be slowed down for this shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1536177614469-USGAG7EZG3K8FPQMR64N/goby-sdf.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 4 : Using Shallow Depth of Field Shallow depth of field has left most of this goby's surroundings out of focus making its face what draws the eye in the picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1536176806374-SF7FCD1VQGT1UNF99PZK/squat-lobster-sdf.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 4 : Using Shallow Depth of Field Using a powerful macro wet lens allowed me to get very close to take this image of a tiny squat lobster on a sponge. This resulted in a very shallow depth of field where only its eye and a narrow area of its body are in focus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1536177190429-VFCBYLJURO2WYJ240C4B/moray-sdf.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 4 : Using Shallow Depth of Field Anne used shallow depth of field in this picture of a giant moray to deal with the common problem of what to do when you have a macro lens on your camera and a big creature to photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1536175535172-NATCMR1C231SL3RCV9AC/nudi-sdf.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 4 : Using Shallow Depth of Field In this picture of a nudibranch taken in the Lembeh Straits, Indonesia I used shallow depth of field to just put the rhinophores in focus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1536175939261-ASJHZ58ROER9LP0MMFJ5/ribbon+eel+bokeh.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 4 : Using Shallow Depth of Field Bokeh can be seen quite well in this image of a ribbon eel. Notice the polygonal shaped blurs in several places. Using a shallow depth of field has left just its eyes and part of the mouth in focus. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/8/19/why-buy-thethe-canon-g9x-mkii-in-a-fantasea-housing monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1535048708205-WHOY2G3DU01TGF9HMSZA/Canon-PowerShot-G9X-Mark-II-camera-2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Why buy the....Canon G9X MkII in a Fantasea housing? The Canon G9X and G9X MkII are externally identical and have the same dimensions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1535048886909-2EEV08FUNNT1A6N575SF/Turtle+image+taken+with+G9X The Alphamarine Blog - Why buy the....Canon G9X MkII in a Fantasea housing? This shot was taken using a G9X in Fantasea housing fitted with the Fantasea UWL09F wide angle wet lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1581446193819-FSMUVX7MO6NR4PCAHDOD/G7Xvignette24mm.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Why buy the....Canon G9X MkII in a Fantasea housing? This shot illustrates the amount of vignetting that occurs when using a Canon G7X MkII in a Fantasea housing with the Fantasea UWL400 wide angle wet lens and the camera lens zoomed to its widest. To remove this you have to zoom the camera lens in which will reduce the angle of view. Little if any vignetting occurs when using wide angle wet lenses with the G9X in a Fantasea housing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1535048986864-TTFN4DP7VGHDG4KAR5Q9/Goby+on+Seastar The Alphamarine Blog - Why buy the....Canon G9X MkII in a Fantasea housing? This shot of a goby on a seastar in a Scottish loch utilised strobes to light it and a fast shutter speed to make the space behind the seastar appear dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1535049098100-F2YGTTHGHZ0OKS5D60LW/Hermit+crab The Alphamarine Blog - Why buy the....Canon G9X MkII in a Fantasea housing? This macro shot was taken using similar settings to the one above. For both pictures I utilised a Fantasea +12 macro lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1535048791179-BD6VEUYS5BC1QOBMCE36/Fantasea+FG9X+Underwater+Housing The Alphamarine Blog - Why buy the....Canon G9X MkII in a Fantasea housing? The Fantasea FG9X housing will take either the G9X or the G9X MkII https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/8/13/macro-musings-part-3-getting-snooty monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1534179105622-H2B54Y001PMZIW9M5BAU/snoot_for_z240_d2000.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 3: Snooting INON produce snoot sets for their range of strobes which can give selection of different beam widths https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1534179827385-DRHOCSBG48NFLVRV1F1W/cuttlefish-bali.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 3: Snooting This shot of a cuttlefish taken without using a snoot shows the dark sand bottom typical of many Indonesian dive sites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1534185619381-5SSKSAJRFWGAZ4ULSPI9/snootedcuttlefish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 3: Snooting This image of cuttlefish taken by Anne shows how snooting can not only isolate the subject from its surroundings but also enhance the picture by specifically lighting the central element of the image, in this case the cuttlefish's eye. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1534187085207-9RA7NUZGHIRESBAZM2DK/dwarfgoby.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 3: Snooting Here the pool of light from the strobe was larger than the tiny goby I was taking pictures of. But the snoot kept the light confined to a quite small area which I think gave a better look to this shot than if the surroundings were fully lit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1586283217902-UOCQ1E9R4LSX1RS4V8EY/MP10-1-600x800.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 3: Snooting Constant lights with snoot fittings have become a more common accessory recently. This is a DivePro MP10 which has a couple of beam width options and adjustable power. These have some use for very close up macro but bear in mind that constant lights have drawbacks. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/8/4/macro-musings-part-2-against-a-dark-background monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1600097618324-TS0LW5TYV0UEOCXC40F2/dwarflionfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 2 : Getting a black background This shot of a dwarf lion fish was taken using an Olympus EPL3 camera and a single strobe to give the light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1600097717252-AGXUWS8X5JYGON92AP0Z/tawny-nurse-shark.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 2 : Getting a black background The easy option! This shot of a nurse shark was taken at night in the Maldives again using an Olympus EPL3 Micro Four Thirds camera and a single strobe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1600098008283-X3LWNJDD8WO13Y1PDTS7/scorpionfish-2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 2 : Getting a black background One of my faves. Positioning the strobe to just light the subject from below and to the side means only a tiny patch in front is lit, cutting out the rather dull sand around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1600104719213-NAA3CKJGYYE3XBMKGUJV/grey-moray.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips Part 2 : Getting a black background In the case of this image of a grey moray, strobe positioning played a large part. Having a single strobe above the camera meant that much of the light was cut out by the metal plate the moray was peaking out from under. If I’d used two strobes either side of the camera the the surroundings would have been lit as well. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/7/24/medcalfs-macro-musings-part-1-intro-and-wet-lenses monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1599496016841-CI19SGBDL67J9P3DLP7X/long-nosed-hawkfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips : Part 1 Intro and Wet Lenses This shot of a long nosed hawkfish on a wreck near Manado, North Sulawesi was taken with an Olympus EPL3 camera with a 45mm lens and a +10 macro wet lens. Good buoyancy control was needed to get this shot as the fish was in a black coral bush on the side of the wreck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1599496204007-UBW6B8IXAGFUT09FLE6C/bullhead.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips : Part 1 Intro and Wet Lenses Picture of a bullhead under a pier in North Wales taken with a Fuji F30 compact camera using Macro mode https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1532461540739-JVJ3816GJ7Q2ATMFKWZ1/3734-thickbox_default.jpg.png The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips : Part 1 Intro and Wet Lenses Fantasea +12 macro lens. Wet lenses like this one can be taken on and off underwater allowing you to deal with a range of subject sizes. I will often dive with two different strength wet lenses when shooting macro and swap between them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1599496908170-Y89QU1IUE4EYLBVZ66IL/painted-goby.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips : Part 1 Intro and Wet Lenses Goby in Loch Creran, Scotland taken using an Olympus OMD EM10 MkII fitted with a Panasonic-Leica 45mm macro lens and an INON UCL-165 +6 wet lens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1599497046057-S0ORP0QQ1GU1MJXL6Q5D/common+prawn.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips : Part 1 Intro and Wet Lenses Common prawn in UK waters. Taken with a small aperture (high f number) to increase depth of field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1599497460148-3PZAVF9Q8Y9TS2RK9GOO/shaun-the-sheep.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Macro Photography Tips : Part 1 Intro and Wet Lenses Macro photography often gives the opportunity to see creatures so tiny the naked eye is not enough. This ‘shaun-the-sheep’ sap sucking slug was absolutely minuscule but i managed to get a picture of it using a macro lens on my camera combined with a powerful Nauticam wet lens. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/6/4/the-truth-about-waterproof-cameras monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1528741392391-CJ8MS1FRLQZY04U5DGO8/0953289684.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About 'Waterproof' Cameras The latest waterproof camera from Panasonic. The FT7 or TS7 in the US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1528223936750-PBDTRGYVAJQA0KPK4FA8/Paul+Duxfield+-1700992.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About 'Waterproof' Cameras The inside of the Olympus TG5’s battery compartment showing the seal on the trapdoor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1528741550110-3S5R06SU6BA9Y4EAPOEV/PT-058_Front_TG-5_0.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About 'Waterproof' Cameras The Olympus housings for their TG ‘Tough’ cameras are a great accessory giving added protection from flooding while also allowing you to add extra equipment such as wide angle wet lenses and strobes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1598376234137-7B2NIWDCOWYY2CIV0U15/TG5-camera.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The Truth About 'Waterproof' Cameras The Olympus TG cameras like this TG5 have gained the lion’s share of the “Tough” camera market over recent years. It seems likely even with the Olympus camera production being sold to an investor that they will continue to be produced. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/5/26/plastic-fantastic monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1636560828729-8RCBLR4IG6QFO1JPI4KJ/anne-staxigoe.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Camera Housings: Plastic vs Metal Anne on a dive at Staxigoe Harbour, Caithness in the North east of Scotland. The housing she is holding is a metal Nauticam with an Olympus OMD EM10 MkII inside it and a dome port fitted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1527358618588-8ITBXAEF4V1RVOHVPDSP/b523d8253957ad1269c006788d2a585d.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Camera Housings: Plastic vs Metal The Fantasea FG9X housing for the now discontinued Canon G9X and G9X MkII is resilient and lightweight. It’s also the only viable choice for the G9X cameras because no other brand came up with a button system to operate the touch screen controls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1527358717985-JZ57WUOU9TX78VAZW27D/nauticam-na-em1-housing-for-olympus-omd-em1-1__91082.1412693697.1280.1280.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Camera Housings: Plastic vs Metal Nauticam housings for Mirrorless and DSLR cameras are supported by a broad range of lens ports allowing you to add wide angle, fisheye or macro lenses to your setup. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1597775854918-H3WH9BPK62RRBXUWSH24/diver-with-dslr.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Camera Housings: Plastic vs Metal Steve is holding a Nauticam housing for a DSLR fitted with a large dome for wide angle photography. Domes like this can hold so much air that they make the housing front buoyant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1527360349821-BGV4X432C93IYCMY3CIT/914Mj73bGoL._SL1500_.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Underwater Camera Housings: Plastic vs Metal Olympus housing for the EPL-7 Mirrorless camera. Somewhat annoyingly the design characteristics of Olympus’ own brand mirrorless camera housing changed repeatedly without much logic. This means the used market can be something of a minefield with some housing models being better suited for adding wet lenses or shooting macro than others. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/5/7/power-saving-tip-number-two-bluetooth-wifi-and-gps monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1525702461657-PA99V07M8F6CLDP140S1/Surface.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Power saving tip number two : Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS Once you leave surface lots of those fancy camera features stop being useful https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/5/1/dpkh2r8htnh9a415wddi3v5lnrl7af monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1525197598333-REA1P4R9K5I1ZL6H8SZJ/testshot1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The most important shots you take on a diving trip A classic liveaboard table shot, complete with non-slip matting. In this case we were on the Southern Ocean off the coast of South Australia but I’ve got plenty from elsewhere in my collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1525198752428-EWCMJZSJ9HY200S6L2CT/testshot2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - The most important shots you take on a diving trip The picture is of well known British underwater photographer Nick More's finger on the breakfast table at Tasik Ria Dive Resort in Indonesia. I took it using a snoot before the first dive I had ever used one on. Practicing before hand gave me an idea on how to use it and I got some pretty good shots my first time out with what can be a frustrating piece of underwater photography kit to use. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/4/28/power-saving-tip-number-one-flash-output monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1524933808025-ZKP7M6I6FWA6QSP4QEDL/blenny.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Power saving tip number one : Flash output A male bluebelly or painted blenny (Alloblennius pictus) in full courting colouration, photographed in the Egyptian Red Sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1524933970835-YHQB0X6AX7RCF9NOC620/scotsgoby.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - Power saving tip number one : Flash output Another fish with the species name pictus in this case Pomatoschistus pictus, the painted goby. This one was in Loch Creran in Scotland. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/3/8/what-makes-a-good-underwater-camera-part-5-having-a-flash monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1595952647224-F8EK1R2IRUGXH37Y7MNB/bullhead.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 5 Having a Flash This picture of a long spined scorpionfish/bullhead was taken by me in North Wales using a Fujifilm Finepix F30 camera in a Fuji housing. It was lit with built-in flash with a flash diffuser on the housing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1595703659572-KXA0Y2GJW3M89R0SEU7R/spotted-moray-bonaire.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 5 Having a Flash Here's an image of a Spotted Moray (Gymnothorax moringa) taken using built-in flash by me in Bonaire, this time using the Canon S95 in a Canon underwater housing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520530488859-BQHED6P3FEBM4E1HIDZK/s-2000.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 5 Having a Flash An INON S2000 strobe, is a small but quite powerful underwater flash that can be trigger using the flash on your camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1595782176845-IMTJ8TWUOYIFXC9U6DX7/diver-and-red-sponge.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 5 Having a Flash This image was taken using two strobes to evenly light the red sponge and surronding soft corals in the foreground while the exposure of the background was controlled by setting the camera manually. The artificial light has brought out the red of the sponge that in the ambient light looked more dull. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1595782588113-LMYIUL9QZND3T5AQB8WO/snooted-goby.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 5 Having a Flash The image below was taken using a single strobe fitted with a device called a snoot to narrow the light to a small area. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/3/8/what-makes-a-good-underwater-camera-part-4-a-full-manual-mode monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1594836911154-B8S0XFI6HOQLNH6TOE37/diver-with-canon-s95.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 4 A full Manual Mode Anne diving in the UK with a Canon S95 compact in a Canon housing. This is quite an old camera now but working ones with housings still turn up on the used market and with a full manual mode and RAW capability they are a good starting point for a would-be underwater photographer on a small budget https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1594839591924-8JQAFUD5KDVEVODD1ZL9/fish-under-jetty.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 4 A full Manual Mode For this image of fish under the jetty at Alami Alor resort in Indonesia, Anne used a slightly higher than normal ISO of 320 (ISO 100 or 200 is considered best for image quality depending on the camera). This along with a wide aperture let her keep the shutter speed a bit faster than would otherwise have been possible and this helped to freeze the movement of the fish and sunbeams in this available light shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1594837253112-QJUMGWKW74JQQ8KUG0ES/ribbon-eel-shallow-dof.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 4 A full Manual Mode In this picture, a wide aperture was used to give a shallow depth of field so that not much more than the eyes of this male ribbon eel are in focus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1594837739671-4IEST4TSYX0T8W6FQJSP/scorpionfish.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 4 A full Manual Mode This image of a scorpion fish was taken using one strobe with the cameras shutter speed as high as possible. In this case the camera was a mirrorless one and flash sync speed (the fastest shutter speed at which you can use the flash without getting shadow from the shutter curtain in your shots) was 1/160. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1594837963239-7QKSJ9M471SQU0FQ9974/diver-fancoral-wreck.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 4 A full Manual Mode In this image of a diver at the stern of the Kingston in the Red Sea strobes were used to light the foreground while the shutter speed was adjusted to achieve the blue colour and surface effect in the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1594837109969-FGJM72O0A3V5ENDATB49/male-lion-south-africa.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 4 A full Manual Mode All the settings discussed in this blog can be used in land photography as well and I suggest you get in the habit of using your camera on manual even when not in the water. To achieve this image of a lion taken on a dull South African winter's morning I raised ISO to 2000 to allow me to keep shutter speed high while using a camera with a long lens hand held. https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/3/8/what-makes-a-good-underwater-camera-part-3-being-able-to-add-a-wide-angle-lens monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520521894803-RTBBJ4H8WP2I3AMGTLLN/wide1.001.jpeg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 3 The ability to add a wide angle lens Image taken by Paul Duxfield using a Canon compact camera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1520521951187-53Z9V0GQ0FKPE0PLPG4O/Wide2.001.jpeg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 3 The ability to add a wide angle lens Image again by Paul Duxfield using a Canon compact with an Inon wide angle wet lens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593769969643-ZNL6T7O49MNQI7HF9DIY/underwater-photographer-near-wreck.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 3 The ability to add a wide angle lens This underwater image was made using an Olympus EM10 MkII camera with an 8mm Olympus fisheye lens in a Nauticam housing, the same setup as Anne is holding in the picture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593772250668-R1SXN6GKBIXBTIR0BLDZ/G7Xvignette.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 3 The ability to add a wide angle lens Vignetting in an image taken using a Canon G7X MkII in a Fantasea housing fitted with a Fantasea UWL-400F wide angle wet lens. To remove the vignette the camera lens has to be zoomed from 24mm equivalent (at which this picture was made) to 39mm equivalent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593769947591-UJM4QBYOHLQQEF1KZR6G/nurse-shark-at-surface.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 3 The ability to add a wide angle lens This shot of a nurse shark at the surface was taken in the Maldives using an Olympus EPL-3 mirrorless camera in an Olympus housing fitted with an INON UWL-H100 wide angle wet lens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593771820326-Z0ISKQVM2EL5JELWQSIU/small-wreck-Bonaire.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 3 The ability to add a wide angle lens Picture of a small wreck in Bonaire made using a Canon S95 in a Canon underwater housing fitted with an INON lens mount and wide angle wet lens https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/3/8/what-makes-a-good-underwater-camera-part-2-shooting-raw monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593156766228-5JMLRX438L0QLB88TQKJ/RAW2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 2 Shooting RAW This is an image taken using available light at about 10-12m depth, as it came out of the camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593156796371-BIQ0IPT98MDHR1B36I3E/turtleRAW2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 2 Shooting RAW And here it is after colour correction to the Raw file using Adobe Lightroom Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593156966330-RVUT4AEDSOL7KPCL3WY9/gobyRAW1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 2 Shooting RAW This image of a painted goby, in Loch Creran has been underexposed in camera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593156984855-CHV7EF46QTZK69D143VY/gobyRAW2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 2 Shooting RAW But because it was taken as a Raw image a couple of minutes editing with Lightroom can retrieve a useable image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593157575605-IXL5Q7IWDUQBN1IR346L/squatlobsterRAW1.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 2 Shooting RAW The same is true of images with over exposed sections such as this shot of the squat lobster on a sponge taken on a night dive in the Lembeh Straits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/1593157620141-NI4C5BKP8R0LVMWTG79Y/squatlobsterRAW2.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera ? Part 2 Shooting RAW As long as the image hasn’t been so overexposed that parts have gone outside the dynamic range of the sensor, known as clipping, the detail in over exposed parts can be retrieved quickly and easily with Raw editing software https://alphamarinephoto.com/blog/2018/3/6/what-makes-a-good-underwater-camera-part-1-custom-white-balance monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595aba48725e25dcb537bffe/7414daf8-7345-427d-b410-b7794fe26100/TGCustomWB.jpg The Alphamarine Blog - What makes a good underwater camera Part 1 : Custom White Balance This image of Anne was taken with available light in the Red Sea using an Olympus TG5 camera. TG cameras allow you to set up to four customers white balances and choose between them. 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