I have recently seen in Facebook housings from Seafrogs made of full aluminium alloy. I'm about upgrade my equipment to a Canon R6 mk ii and watching the pictures and videos it's an amazing quality and ergonomy, equiparable to Nauticam in all senses. But I can't see any independent review, I would like to have one in my hands or a trustworthy opinion before buying, because although it's half the price (or less) than a Nauticam housing and accesories it's a big investment and I don't want to get wrong. They are not even in their website, but I have already received a quotation trough whatsapp

Honestly, this reminds me when Nauticam popped up in the market with plastic housing prices for high quality aluminum housings. But I'm really hot about buying one of this Seaforgs.

16 minutes ago, atus said:

Honestly, this reminds me when Nauticam popped up in the market with plastic housing prices for high quality aluminum housings. But I'm really hot about buying one of this Seaforgs.

I can definitely see where you are coming from with this analogy. Maybe Seafrogs are giving away almost free crack for future sales 🤣

But competition is always welcome, hopefully they can keep prices low and get fair chunk of marketshare so Nauticam (and Marelux + others) might lower their prices. But thats just wishful thinking.

But going to keep eyes out on future trips for housings by them.

Yes, competition is always good!

Hi @atus

They definitely look lovely don't they!

I know a few underwater photographers who've used Seafrogs housings with their Fuji Mirrorless Systems and haven't had a problem. I used them with my Olympus TG before reverting back to an Olympus Housing, and have never had a problem with them.

One of the key considerations would be that the back is made of plastic and I'm not sure if they would have the same range of add-on diopters, ports, viewfinders, extensions, etc that other brands offer. I've also heard that sometimes you can only get the option of shooting with either Shutter Speed or Aperture Priority by using the dial and then you have to change them in the menu settings.

At the end of the day, it's a great for entry level or those with lower budgets. Just be careful with the plastic screen.

There is an award-winning photographer called @ben.freediver on Insta who uses one, could be worth reaching out to him.

Good luck with the decision-making.

1 hour ago, Maria Munn said:

Hi @atus

They definitely look lovely don't they!

I know a few underwater photographers who've used Seafrogs housings with their Fuji Mirrorless Systems and haven't had a problem. I used them with my Olympus TG before reverting back to an Olympus Housing, and have never had a problem with them.

One of the key considerations would be that the back is made of plastic and I'm not sure if they would have the same range of add-on diopters, ports, viewfinders, extensions, etc that other brands offer. I've also heard that sometimes you can only get the option of shooting with either Shutter Speed or Aperture Priority by using the dial and then you have to change them in the menu settings.

At the end of the day, it's a great for entry level or those with lower budgets. Just be careful with the plastic screen.

There is an award-winning photographer called @ben.freediver on Insta who uses one, could be worth reaching out to him.

Good luck with the decision-making.

Hi Maria, I think you haven't understand me, I knew since long time ago about the Seafrogs plastic housing which i really don't like since it's for more than 15 years that I'm using alluminium housings, such Sea@Sea as Aquatica, so I'm very familiar with high quality housings and before this I had a Fantasea plastic housing for SLR, I don't like Fantasea or 10bar, the same way I don't like Ikelite.

What is relevant right now about Seafrogs is that they have open a new line of housings in full aluminium alloy which looks like really high quality housing like Nauticam, Aquatica, Marelux, etc but half the price or even less.

They certainly have better taste I choosing monitors for which to make housing. What on earth both Nauticam and Marelux were thinking when making housing for touch only monitors from Atomos ... 🤦(save for recorder)

Looking at the matter from a little further away, there is a whole series of Chinese companies that have been in their respective markets for years with basic, simpler products, but have now made a big jump in quality technology. Seafrog is definitely the only one in the housing sector, but how can we not notice what is happening with lenses?

The camera lens market has seen a growing and aggressive presence of Chinese manufacturers, who initially focused on manual focus optics, but are now offering an increasingly wide and competitive range of lenses equipped with autofocus. These brands are making technologies and performance once reserved for higher market segments accessible to a wider audience.

To name a few: Viltrox, Yongnuo, Meike, TTArtisan, 7Artisan, Sirui, Brightin Star, Laowa.

And staying within our industry, how can we not notice a huge leap in quality and offerings from brands like Kraken, Weefine, AOI, Scubalamp?