By Tobias Friedrich
For shallow encounters with marine animals like this Sperm Whale, you can easily setup your SeaLife Micro 3.0 to shallow white balance or even surface white balance. Setting it to “Underwater Deep” would show too much red color in the image because the white balance for deeper depth is compensates for the loss of red colors much more. So be sure to properly set your camera before a dramatic encounter like this one.
Equipment: SeaLife Micro 3.0 with Micro Wide Angle Dome Lens Settings: Shallow White Balance
Micro Wide Angle Dome Lens
SL052 The SeaLife Micro Wide Angle Dome Lensincreases the camera’s field of view by 43% and allows for 3x closer shooting distance. For the SeaLife Micro 3.0, the lens angle is increased from 100° to 143°and shooting distance is reduced from 15”/38cm to 5”/13cm. The 0.7x dome lens high-grade optical design improves overall image quality and edge sharpness. Fits all SeaLife Micro-series and ReefMaster RM-4K camera models.
Sea Dragon 3000SF Pro Dual Beam
SL679 See the NEW SL554 Micro 3.0 Pro Dual Beam Set! The compact Sea Dragon 3000SF Pro Dual Beam Photo-Video light has a large COB LED, delivering 3000 lumens in an even 120° wide beam. The light offers an impressive 90 CRI (color rendering index) with a proprietary COB LED array that replicates natural sunlight (A CRI of 100 would be just like natural sunlight). With a simple one-button push, the underwater photographer can switch from the wide 120° beam to a narrow 1500 lumen 15° spot beam. For imaging, the spot beam offers many creative opportunities such as to create a narrowly focused snoot or stage spotlight effect.
