INTRODUCTION
How It Works - A Very Unique Camera
Land & Sea®
The SeaLife Reefmaster Digital Land & Sea camera allows you to choose between Land Mode for taking land pictures and Sea Mode for taking underwater pictures. This is essential for taking great pictures and achieving the perfect picture exposure.
Sea Mode: If the camera is set to Sea Mode and used inside the Underwater Camera Housing, the camera is programmed to automatically find the best exposure control combination in an underwater environment. The internal sensor reads the light conditions through the lens (TTL). It evaluates the whole picture in 64 segments with higher priority in the center. Then it automatically sets the correct exposure time, lens opening, and sensitivity. You may hear a
slight clicking noise when you move the camera to different light conditions. E SeaLife Research has tested several thousand combinations to achieve the optimal exposure controls. In the Sea mode, the slowest exposure time underwater is 1/30 seconds. If the surrounding light is too dark, the flash will fire automatically. While in the Sea mode, the camera flash will actually fire two, three or four times depending on the distance to the subject. The weaker flashes, called a
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In order to avoid underwater “backscatter” (spots that show up in pictures caused by tiny particles in the water) and get more vivid colors, we recommend that you use the SeaLife External Flash, which is sold separately. You can even use two external flashes, like the pros do, in order to eliminate shadows in your pictures. When using the SeaLife External Flash, you must set the camera to the External Flash Mode. The External Flash Mode does not use a
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