Camera For Fish

[lozronz]

About half and half, The Cory the JC and the Phantom Tetra are taken through glass from the last lot of photos. The close up shrimp one was from the beginning.

 

[T1KARMANN]

my pics were taken with a panasonic fz50 not a cheap olympus

the fz50 is a ultra zoom cam all my pics are taken about 10ft away from the tank so as not to freak the arowana out as he hate the cam being close to the tank as it looks like a big fish eye to him

if the so called photo expert who has been doing it for 25 yrs knew what he was doing it would have been easy for him to check what cam took the shot and what settings were used but he didnt even know the diffrence bettween a airbubble or dust so we cant belive much he says

the phantom shot looks good to me and i would be happy if you can get shots like that from a £160 cam and if you can get shots like that with out getting wet even better

if the cam you have is easy to use and does what you want then it was a good buy

what i have does what i want it to do if i just know how to use it it done what i wanted once but i have no idear what it was set on

 

[lozronz]

Cheers, the phantom one was a bit lucky, the other fish I am really struggling with is close ups of neons because they always seem to over expose or glare and their movements are quite erratic. I did worry about the lens looking like a big fish eye but the fish don't seem to mind they are always coming over to see whats happening and the kribs positively pose.

I tried raising the ISO to 800 or 1600 but its a bit of a bugger cos it only takes the photo when it has focused so you have to kind of have to predict where they are going to be or half press to focus on something in the middle of the tank then hope a fish will be at that depth in the tank.

I am happy with the camera, it is pretty easy to use although I'm still struggling with a few features, I found a function that allowed it to take a photo every 10 seconds and just left it in the tank in an area where I know the fish hang out and went and off and had a bath that was how I got the knifefish and chinese algae eater which was pretty cool but I guess takes out the art out of it.