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I owe you a debt of gratitude! Thank You! I know you have worked hard on your videos and I have studied a number of them because you do an excellent job of taking the pics and helping others to learn. I very much like your favorite pic of the dotted blue stingray in black & white. Like you said, it was unexpected and although your buddy was having trouble equalizing, you got a fantastic shot out of the dive! So, after reading your response, I took your advice and went to a pool last night. Set the camera for RAW, set in Manual, set underwater auto, set auto ISO 100 - 800, set center button to focus area, and used the 35mm f/1.8 lens. I was in ~14' of H20 and had props to take pics of. Well, you were right! This pics turned out really decent and I have a better level of comfort for my upcoming trip. I was always intimidated w/ camera settings and shooting in RAW seemed out of my league but your advice and encouragement was exactly what I needed. I was working on adjusting the aperture and the focus area. I don't recall changing the shutter speed, but most were 90 - 200 range (will need to work on that). So, your long reply was so worth it to me and I very much appreciate you taking the time to respond. For my trip on Sat (April 14th), I plan to take the kit lens and 35mm to compare. I will mostly be trying to take stills. Keep the videos coming and Thank You again :)!!!!

I sent you an invitation through Shutterfly (remember I am quite newby at this). I am also on Facebook. I took the a6000 to Turks and Caicos in April 2018 and experimented w/ the kit lens and 35mm. This was my 1st attempt shooting in RAW and manual mode in the ocean. I wasn't too disappointed, my favorite shots were of a shark w/ the 35mm lens and I noted the shutter speed on those were above 1/160, mostly 1/250. I checked out your website and FB page and was blown away by your pics of the kite boarders and surfers. However, your UW pics can't be beat, not only for the subject matter but composition as well. So, will follow you on FB!

Thank You Very Much!!!! I appreciate you taking the time to view my photos and leave me comments. There is so much to learn and I will use your tip of using Flexible Spot for shooting w/ a wide open aperture. For this summer I will be shooting quarries, not the Best for pretty colorful photos but I will work on composition and learning more camera control. Thank You Again from one of your favorite fans :)!

Hoopoe Digital yeah that makes sense! I might need to get one one day! Check out our stuff and let me know your opinions on it! Would love some feedback!

Thanks! Didnt see that. Great footage, btw. :)

Even the kit lens is so amazing!

Hey bro, did you customized your color balance for a6000? Or auto since yoh have dive light?

Hi, Thank you for getting back to me. That is some great information. I will be getting the Sony A6000 40m/130ft Meikon Underwater Camera Housing since it's the most affordable housing out there on the market. I thought the Sony E PZ 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS Lens look good, but maybe I will have another closer look at your video if I can see the difference. I like the Sony E PZ 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS Lens to be able to take wider angle shots and to be able to zoom in. For macro maybe the Sony E 35mm f/1.8 OSS Lens and of course it is a faster lens. Hoping to be able to use the A6000 when I go to St. Croix USVI soon.

By the way on the video lights did you use one or two lights?

P.S. I discovered your kite surfing video via your link in the youtube commentary of a review on the FZ300 at artoftheimage.com. I have been deliberating buying 3 of these FZ300 cameras to help shoot my own music videos. I will be waiting however to see what new cameras appear at Photokina next week before I buy. Still, from what I have read and seen the FZ300 is a marvellous little camera for the money. I just wish it shot full HD 4K rather than the cropped version. Did you shoot this in 4K ?

Cheers!… for my own work I still have not decided what to get for a first 4K camera. The G85/80 is out now which would offer superior quality being a 4/3 sensor mirrorless design plus as it can use interchangeable lenses it would of course be the better investment. However I too am on a limited budget at the moment but am desperate to start shooting some footage for my music videos with something! I will of course need other cameras for different simultaneous angle shooting and as my camera collection grows I think even though it's "go to" roll will eventually be replaced by something like the G85/80 or possibly the forthcoming GH5, the FZ300 would be a decent starter 4K camera that could later become a "set and leave" tripod mounted B or C camera in a multi shoot situation. I also do a lot of road cycling and for years I used to carry a pocket point and shoot with me for taking stills. I miss that old Casio ZX750! I would actually prefer to buy a 4K pocket point and shoot (that can take more than the miserable 5 minutes of 4K that the Sony RX100 MkV can) also with a fully articulating screen but the ones I have read about still aren't available yet ( Panasonic Lx200, Nikon DL 24-85) ...Anyway, I'm digressing into techy land here! In the end it's what you do with the equipment you have that is important! Again your video here proves that! ...It's just that the technology has moved on so much since the last time I owned a camera that it seems futile not to get hold of it to give one the most flexibility to express ones creativity!