...here we go...(EXP 1 strobes underwater)

setup:

Nikonos II and SB-15.
film used: Fuji 400.

the nikons is an amazing rangefinder, well if you can call it that. no metering what so ever, absolutely manual. its flash sync is at 1/60th. the SB-15 was in a rollei E 34 underwater housing.

this was the first time shooting really manually with a flash. so this is what i did. i knew shooting the SB15 in automatic might not work underwater. the light from the unit will probably get reflected in the plastic housing and fool the flash meter. firing it in M mode might be too much power for the image. so i put the flash into strobe mode. for the SB15, this results in a flash output of 1/13th full power. then i metered the ambient light around the pool with a sekonic L358. i knew i wasnt shooting too deep so there probably would be some ambient light involved.
what ever reading i got from the meter, i opened up the aperture 2 stops just to make sure i take into account the light lost underwater.

well... what you see above is the result. the strobe was placed to your left. focusing was done manually. i think the s-stop for this photo was around 5.6.

any questions... let me know... i found a leak in the rewind shaft... so will have to fix that before i take it underwater again... :D