Hello from Australia

[Yorkie88]

Hello!

Just joined the forum but been reading for a while!

 

Looking at upgrading my A6400 + SeaFrogs Salted Line setup, to an A7RV + Nauticam setup in the near future!

 

I've had the new camera for a few months but I've been hovering on the housing for a while.......it's a big step up from the SeaFrogs 😁

[humu9679]

Aloha and welcome!

[Chris Ross]

4 hours ago, Yorkie88 said:

Hello!

Just joined the forum but been reading for a while!

 

Looking at upgrading my A6400 + SeaFrogs Salted Line setup, to an A7RV + Nauticam setup in the near future!

 

I've had the new camera for a few months but I've been hovering on the housing for a while.......it's a big step up from the SeaFrogs 😁

Welcome on board,  assume your hesitation is the cost, it's a fairly big step to house a full frame camera and everything is more expensive with larger sensors - housings, potentially domes, lenses etc.  You may want to look at all the components you will need and also compare them to other brands to see what makes the best deal facially.    Yu can of course ask questions of the members here to help you with decisions.

[Maria Munn]

Hey @Yorkie88

 

Welcome to the group 🙂

 

It might be a big step but you can never go wrong with Nauticam Products.

 

Good luck with the journey and look forward to seeing your images.

 

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[Yorkie88]

On 1/10/2025 at 3:53 PM, Chris Ross said:

Welcome on board,  assume your hesitation is the cost, it's a fairly big step to house a full frame camera and everything is more expensive with larger sensors - housings, potentially domes, lenses etc.  You may want to look at all the components you will need and also compare them to other brands to see what makes the best deal facially.    Yu can of course ask questions of the members here to help you with decisions.

Yeah the cost was the main thing holding me back!

 

I did put my order in on Friday though so I should be using this in the near future:

Nauticam NA-A7RV Housing (with Vacuum Valve)

Sony A7RV Body

Sony 90mm Macro

Turtle TTL Trigger (As a newbie to strobes, I think having TTL outweighed the ability to switch to rear curtain in the dive on the Manual trigger)

2 x MF-2 Strobes (should work for HSS if it's ever needed)

 

I should be able to get some very high resolution, terrible shots of out of focus Nudibranches 😅 - hopefully will be able to get comfortable with it on local dives, before a trip to the Phillippines later in the year! Hopefully to get some more frogfish  (my favourites) shots!

 

Previous nudi and frogfish from Bali attached - this was with the Seafrogs and A6400 + 90mm + INON wet lens UCL-165, with a single Inon D-2000 strobe that I was using for the first time 😀

 

Thanks for the welcome!