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HD Video, can you spot the crinoid shrimp?
Hint, it is in the golden colored crinoid clip.
HD Video, Coco Beach Philippines
I believe the non-crinoid shrimp with th etail up in the air in th eanemone is a Periclimenes Amboinensis. Amboinensis means "of Ambon", a small Island in the Indonesia archipeligo.
Last edited by Sarah; 07-29-2007 at 08:43 PM.
OMG! I am going to throw my camera away and get video! AMAZING! What camera and lights do you have? the color and the clarity are out of this world! (A friend of mine has HD, but the upload to the net quality just doesn't do it justice).
Just fabulous! Thank you for sharing! This is really why I dive, to see this miraculous world below the surface of the water.
The video was shot with a Sony HDR FX1 3CCD videocam, an Amphibico Phenom housing, Amphibico's dual LiIon battery pack powering dual 35-60W HID's, and next video will be shot with the same system using Amphibico's 16:9 widescreen external HD monitor.
Other than that, I have no idea about the details
With supplemental HID lighting, even the single CMOS chip HD cams give excellent results.
Editing video is WAY more difficult than stills, and doing macro with videos is even harder, staying still doing macro is next to impossible, and u/w tripods ar enot all they are cracked up to be.
Yeah, I don't know what the videographer is doing to be so incredibly still, doing such tiny macro subjects in the kind of current you can see from the particulates, but I'm impressed. Having just dipped my toes into underwater videography, I'm really aware of how even small movements make the video motion-sickness inducing. Those sequences are just superb!
"What other sport is there where a cute woman has trouble getting rid of her underwear?" Doppler
then I guess I should just throw my camera away....
LCF, the video you saw was his 2nd ever video, shot on the 3rd of 3 trips to the Philippines.
He told me that 90% of the footage was useless from the 1st trip, but the 10% that was usable that got him so excited he went back again in 3 weeks! That time 40% was usable.
Don't give up on still photography, with a macro lens, and a clip on/flip down external diopter, you are able to get closer macro and movement is far less of an issue and color correction is easy in Photoshop.
The tougher issue to tackle is macro video using manual focus, as autofocus is problematic. As an example using the golden crinoid footage, videocams can have "issues" (that's such an L.A. term, lol) with trying to figure out if you're shooting the crinoid arm or the little vertical golden commensal shrimp straddling its arm. Same went for the black squat lobster at the foot of the darker crinoid.
You mention current. Even if you have your mime act down pat and don't move, using the Periclimenes Zanzibaricus commensal shrimp footage in the yellow/organge whip coral as an example, you have the whip coral singing about in the breeze, so being perfectly still still does you no good, even if possible.
Underwater tripods all but don't exist, and who wants to add that to all the stuff you have to lug about. Just try setting up your tripod quick enough on a moving subject. By the time you get the arms out and adjusted, your tank will be down to 500 psi and that macro critter will have already pelagically migrated to the next island, hehe.....
I am still trying to figure out of that crinoid shrimp is a Periclimenes Tenuis. I see some sites identify it as a P. Amboinensis but that scientific name is the Squat Shrimp or sometimess called the Sexy Shrimp as it shakes its bon-bon.
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