Friday, May 02, 2008

Weekly urchin - new toy edition

Part of my job as coordinator of the Undergraduate Center for Marine Life Sciences is to purchase equipment that could be used by students and faculty for research. The newest edition to the Center is a Sea & Sea DX-1G digital underwater camera and strobe. It seems on first inspection to be a marvelous piece of equipment. (Thanks, Rick, for using your power and influence to coerce some useful camera feedback from your "peeps" for me)


The second the battery finished charging, I grabbed the camera and headed down to the RWU wetlab to try it out. I must say that I'm really impressed with the quality of the images this camera takes, especially since these test shots were taken with me just sticking the camera into a bunch of tanks, hoping I was focusing on something, and using only the built-in flash instead of the big strobe. With some fine-tuning I think this will take some phenomenal shots out in the field.

First up, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, of course:

Here's an oyster toadfish trying to hide:

Apparently tautog like to snuggle with toadfish:

Lined seahorse:

Fire shrimp:

Baby Juvenile jawfish:

The clownfish thought I was going to feed them:
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2 comments:

  1. Up Welng5/5/08, 9:55 AM

    nice!
    i love the composition and effect in the clownfish shot!

    hope the center gets a lot of use out of it...

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  2. Jim Lemire5/7/08, 8:40 PM

    Thanks. I like it too, though I can't take any real credit for it - I stuck my hands in with the camera and them immediately swam over en masse looking for food.

    I can't wait to see how the camera works out in the Bay. I expect to get some shots this summer. I'll let you know how it handles.

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