On 2/19/03 3:11 am, "David Strike" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 1:22 PM, Fred Brown wrote:
>
>>> G'Day, Fred!  Seeing a manatee - and calf - must have been quite an
>>> experience.  I bet you didn't have a camera with you?  :-))
>
>> Hi Strike - I did have a camera but the rain was was pouring down so hard I
>> wouldn't have had a hope in hell of getting a decent shot.
>
> "decent shot"???  As a bloke wot has spent years trying to get any sort of
> recognisable image out of my Nik V, (Viv pointed out - during our trip to
> dive the sinking of the former HMAS PERTH, in Albury WA, over a year ago -
> that if I loaded the film into the camera properly then I'd stand a better
> chance!<bwg>) I'm so pleased with digital cameras.  (The Sony DCS-P5 has
> more than paid for itself in terms of the film and developing costs that
> it's saved me.  Better yet, I can actually recognise *some* of the images
> that I've taken since I bought it, a year ago.)  :-)
>
> What sort of camera do you have?  (The reason that I ask is that apart from
> Viv, Bjorn, Crusty, Bob, John Nitrox, Lee, Poe, Huw, Alfred, Brad,  - and
> sum uvvers of note - I have a low tolerance of U/W photographers!  Mainly
> 'cause they're more talented than me and always manage to capture images
> that are easily identifiable - and artistic!  My vast collection of shots
> taken at midnight at 50-metres in a dark cave without benefit of artifical
> light never seems to attract the plaudits that their more easily
> identifiable shots do! )  :-))))

I've got a Fuji 4800 but I need a new u/w housing as the last one was nicked
(in the UK). Having said that I don't really like taking a camera down with
me. There are far better photographers and I've got a good memory. ;-)
>
> Mind you!  I still hold the rare distinction of having been one of the first
> people to photograph a thermocline!!!!  Using a Calypso - the predecessor of
> the Nikonos series - we used to release dye-packs on the interface and then
> photograph the layering effect.  It was in the waters off of Malta. Wot
> really sticks in my mind about them thar days woz the favourite drink which
> was a pint glass filled with equal measures of the local (cheap) wine -
> Marsovin - Scrumpy, and the merest tincture of Pernod.  (One "tincture" =
> "two shots"!)  :-))))
>
> Sorry, Fred!  I got carried away there!  :-)

No probs.
>
> Strike