Hello Dennis!
Thursday January 11 1996 08:18, Dennis Seavey wrote to Mark Tetrault:
 DS> Hi Mark,
 DS>      Glad to see your still around.  I guess you must have been in
 DS> "lurk" mode.  How are you fairing with all the snow?  It has really
Yup, I usually am in lurking mode. Just reading the mail.
 DS>     In a nutshell, asa 400 film is designed to produce properly
 DS> exposed images under lower light conditions than asa 100 speed film.
Good, as a "budding" shutterbug, that answered my question. If I stay with 
underwater photography, I'm sure I will invest in the accsy strobe as time 
goes on.
 DS>    Although the strobe does add some candle power to the available
 DS> light the main disadvantage to the built in flash is that you cannot
 DS> change the aim of the strobe with respect to the image.  This
 DS> prevents you from minimizing backscatter from floating particulates
 DS> in the water which may effectively shorten your photographic range
 DS> as much as the lower light output.
The camera as it is will at least give me a beginning, and at the depths I 
will be at (<60 or so), it should do OK.
 DS>    Well I've got to go and shovel out a place for the next batch of
 DS> snow to occupy this weekend.  I'll let you know if the hockey league
 DS> starts up.
 DS>      Dennis
 DS> By the way, which dive shop do you go to?  I'm not intimately
 DS> familiar with what's available over there.
Divers Den in Manchester. In fact, gotta go there and drop off the regs and 
tanks for the yearly insp.
Stay Wet.
....Mark
in Beautiful Downtown Pembroke, NH
It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift.  It has to be earned.
    -- Kirk, "The Return of the Archons," stardate 3157.4.
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