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sum1sgrampa wrote:
Great catching a glimpse of "your world" and very well done
gary
Thank you!
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Ranzey wrote:
Very nice. I dive on occasion but I have never bitten the bullet and gotten a housing for a camera. Olympus seems to be the way to go though, due to portability and IBIS. Those sand tigers appear menacing, but every piece of good information I've seen portrays them as rather gentle creatures among sharks.
Pat
My E-M10 served me very well for several years. But, I have upgraded to a full frame Sony and it is serving me even better. 
For u/w use, I don't think image stabilization is nearly as important as for terrestrial photography. Good autofocus, decent low light performance, and a high megapixel count are pretty much my top priorities. The other shark photo that I posted the other day was a crop of approximately 1/4 of the original photo. As a result, it's only about 4MP - since it was shot with my old Olympus, which is 16MP. I REALLY wish I had gotten that same image on my new camera (61MP). I would love to be able to print it much larger than what the 4MP image will really support.
The Sand Tigers definitely look very menacing, but they really are totally docile. I believe they are close cousin to Nurse Sharks. In fact, in other parts of the world they are called Grey Nurse Sharks. Their temperament seems to be pretty much like regular Nurse Sharks as well.
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So far, only actual swam with Sand Tigers, various reef sharks, Nurses, Sand Bars, and Bulls. And something that I would call Oceanic Blacktip, for lack of education. They had black tips on their fins and they were just hanging in the blue, around 20 feet deep, 20+ miles off the coast of NC, as I was ascending and doing some deco after a wreck dive.