Underground with a Camera

Got to take my new camera underground last weekend. I've bought a Ewa-Marine waterproof housing to protect it, and this trip was to try it all out. I was very pleased with the results. The camera turned out to have some excellent features which really helped.

Firstly it has a 'My Mode' custom mode which you can preprogram with all the settings appropriate for what you are doing. This is very useful for cave photography, where I need manual focus, manual exposure control, external flashes etc.

Secondly you can customise which buttons control which settings of the camera. This was extremely useful in the waterproof housing because you cannot easily turn the control dial type controls, but I was able to configure the camera to allow all the essential settings to be changed using the push buttons.

Here is an example of one of the photos I took.



Water Icicle Close Cavern, Peak District, Derbyshire