My (last?) Shot

Klaus Foerstemann · Issue 128, Sep/Oct 2022 · pp. 64–65

Products mentioned: Olympus E-PL3, Olympus 14-42 f3.5-5.6 IIR lens, Olympus PT-EP05L housing, H2O-tools 0.72x wetlens, Sea&Sea YS-120, Sea&Sea YS-27, Raw Therapee, Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw

My (last?) Shot I started scuba-diving three years ago in my late 40’s, mostly not to lag behind the kids but I really enjoy it now. Photography has been my hobby for a long time, so I soon started fussing around with cheap action-cams – not a very satisfying experience. I needed a real camera and LIGHT. My wife suggested last fall “Why don’t you get yourself a nice setup for Christmas?”. Despite her kind suggestion, I didn’t want to spend the entire family’s annual diving budget on this purchase… I looked for advice on the web and stumbled upon UWP, read most of the back issues and realized that at this point good advice on how to take good photographs below surface was probably worth more than the latest equipment. So I got Alex Mustard’s book, an Olympus EPL-3 with the 14-42 kit lens and housing and two strobes (YS-120 and YS-27) for relatively little money after diving into the class…