Tigahboy Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Hehe. Okay, not as fancy as the name implies. But I wanted to take some top down shots of some frags in my 67g. But the reflection of the MH's and such made it virtually impossible. So came up w/ this very makeshift solution. Took some weldon-4 I had lying around and sealed shut the lid to an acrylic box. Then used hole saw to make a hole fit to my camera's needs. Used some rubberbands to keep the box attached to my camera. And prest-o change-o, and now my camera is diving! The pic of the danae above was taken w/ this adapter as well as a few sps frags below: Link to comment
EnFuego Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 that rainbow danae is looking nice. We may have to do a little trading, my superman for your rainbow sometime. I'm surprised at how clear those pictures came out with the acrylic box on the camera. -Mark Link to comment
lgoins Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 the danae is the coolest one I've ever seen, when does it go up for sale? Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 =) that one isn't for sale since I only have a tiny frag and I want to grow it out. Link to comment
lgoins Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 I don't blame you, I wouldn't sell it either Link to comment
Travis Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Nice Tigah, I may have to make one of thos acrylic boxes for my cammera Link to comment
Cesar Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 That Danae is very nice, and that underwater adapter is very clever haha. The top shots are very cool. Link to comment
timb000 Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 nice box. now dont drop that camera in the water.=X Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 i love how your rainbow is mostly green...i'm dying to have ANY green polyps now...all it has is bright orangeish-red polyps. lame. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Green is so 5-years-ago. Red/orange is in. consider yourself lucky. =) Link to comment
Babycakes Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 where'd you get your rainbow danae frag? the only place i found was atlantisaquarium.net and they're charging an arm and a leg for a tiny frag X) Link to comment
obarrera Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 That Danae is cool. And I like what you did for the camera, pretty good idea. Link to comment
jmt Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 How are you liking that Nikon so far? I've generally preferred the Canon digitals and the Nikon film. I was wondering when you'd start getting top down shots for your retail site. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 I've been satisfied thus far for what it is - basically a fancy point-n-shoot. It would be nice to have a SLR, but can't afford it atm. It takes great pics and does a lot of the work for you. so saves a little time taking pics. but I haven't fully figured out all its functions yet. But the top-downs have saved me a lot of time since I was basically moving corals into a suitable position, waiting for them to reopen, taking the pics, and then moving them back. now I can just snap and go. =) Link to comment
Case Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Originally posted by Tigahboy Hehe. Okay, not as fancy as the name implies. But I wanted to take some top down shots of some frags in my 67g. But the reflection of the MH's and such made it virtually impossible. So came up w/ this very makeshift solution. Took some weldon-4 I had lying around and sealed shut the lid to an acrylic box. ask gil to show you his wade box for shooting and you will quickly find out one of our members made it for him... i want him to make one for me too but i have not worked out the design i want yet because iwant the cam fully inclosed I dont want my 1500 dollar SLR any where near a beach without some sort of salt and sand protection... Link to comment
BelowH2O Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 sweet idea, those pics came out really nice! Link to comment
TheCoralReef731 Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Awesome pics! Now you need a tank big enough to scuba in, to get crazily close shots. Hehehe. Link to comment
Gilman Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Per request from Case in NR chat. A couple pics of a Canon D60 in my camerabox (it was built with my 20D/100mm macro in mind). Camera box was made by toecutter (toec in reef chat). Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Very nice, Gil. Thanks for the post. Link to comment
Sinistard Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Cool camera boxs Tigah and Gilman I also saw one on Melev's Reef Site. http://www.melevsreef.com/topdown.html Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Mushroom, I got it. thanks. =) Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 just found this itty bitty baby flame scallop at the bottom of my prop tank. cute lil bugger. Link to comment
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