Getting started with Waterpixels...

[BrightSea]

Looking forward to Waterpixels experience.

New to Canon R5, would be nice to connect, always nice to learn and share equipment ideas, knowledge, experience, good, bad and everything.

Edited Thursday at 06:28 AM by BrightSea
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[Davide DB]

Hi Brightsea, welcome aboard!

 

[CaolIla]

2 hours ago, BrightSea said:

Looking forward to Waterpixels experience.

New to Canon R5, would be nice to connect, always nice to learn and share equipment ideas, knowledge, experience, good, bad and everything.

Hi 
I'm also an user of the Canon R5, since now 2 1/2 year.
Verry happy of my setup.

R5 + RF 100 + RF 14-35 RF 10-20 
Isotta with dome and flat port
2 Retra strobe (and 2 new ordered)
Nauticam SMC-1 and the new MFO-1

Hope you will have a lot of fun with your new R5...   like I have 

[BrightSea]

Just now, CaolIla said:

Hi 
I'm also an user of the Canon R5, since now 2 1/2 year.
Verry happy of my setup.

R5 + RF 100 + RF 14-35 RF 10-20 
Isotta with dome and flat port
2 Retra strobe (and 2 new ordered)
Nauticam SMC-1 and the new MFO-1

Hope you will have a lot of fun with your new R5...   like I have 

Hello Caollla, Thank you for your post.  R5 has been a big change/adjustment from Canon (long time used) 7D, I continue to use EF 100, hope to acquire MFO-1.  You have a nice batch of lenses.  Sometimes I question moving from APC to Full Frame and a larger housing.  I am land locked in central USA, only have opportunity to dive 1 trip / year.  I realize I need to get in to a pool and do some serious practice prior to next trip.  You use Retra strobes and ordered 2 new WOW!  I experienced a catastrophe on first trip with R5, flash trigger failed, missed out on half of the trip till arrived at Lembeh and was able to purchase a replacement, did some video, however, had overheat issues during video on every dive, frustrating, as I kept duration of video to 30 seconds, 1 to 2 minutes max, still overheated.  Most recent second trip was more enjoyable with functioning flash trigger.  Which flash trigger do you use? Nauticam?  I have had some fun using Backscatter MiniFlash 2 and snoot.  Do you ever consider EWML?

[humu9679]

Aloha and welcome!

[CaolIla]

1 hour ago, BrightSea said:

  I realize I need to get in to a pool and do some serious practice prior to next trip. 

 

You use Retra strobes and ordered 2 new WOW! 

 

I experienced a catastrophe on first trip with R5, flash trigger failed,

 

Which flash trigger do you use? Nauticam? 

 

I.  Do you ever consider EWML?

Yes very important to take time for training before hollidays 

I have since 2 year the "old" Retra Pro with Powervault --> 8 AA x 2 😞 That's the reason I ordered the new one with only 2 Lithium bat in each strobe

I had in 2023 a trip with problem with my trigger ( salt water on the pcb --> trigger batterie empty after 30 to 60 minutes... very frustrating I needed to replace the trigger.
It's a Isotta trigger in a Isotta housing. I replaced it by Isotta and buy a new one to be able to replace it in case of the same problem appear an other time

No EWNL  ( it's realy to expensive, and probably not compatible with Isotta)