I’m fairly close to pulling the trigger on a Marelux housing for the R5II, upgrading from an Ikelite for R6. I’m interested in getting a monitor for the Marelux, but haven’t found much info about their options.

Does anyone have experience with the Marelux monitor housings? There’s a number of used Nauticam monitor housings available, but I’m unsure if they’re cross compatible with the Marelux housing.

Appreciate any insights!

Edited Wednesday at 05:25 PM1 day by jibby

New Weefine 5" pro monitor.

Ive been using it since December and it's really well made.

I use the Marelux Ninja V housing. It is just fine. My complaints are the Ninja is great but really for video only. If you can't touch the screen it is not great for stills as Canon (in stills) shows a bunch of the information under the screen parts that Ninja shows other information. You have to dig through the menu, as far as I can tell, to swap it between the HDMI clean out and the mirror, which is needed for hybrid shooting. So I would buy it again to record video and would get a different monitor/ housing if I was shooting stills. The housing is great, no issues (if not a big large... since the Ninja is a bit large).

So video and want ProRes 422 or Raw? Awesome. Hybrid within one dive? Hmmm... Stills? I would look elsewhere (including Marelux's other monitor).

10 hours ago, Davide DB said:

New Weefine 5" pro monitor.

Ive been using it since December and it's really well made.

I approve this message 👍. Plus many other benefits beyond ‘well built’ compared to Shinobi/Ninja solution. Take it from a 2 years user of Shinobi in Nauticam.

If I really want to find a flaw, it is in the cable connector that sticks out on the left like a unicorn and can hit the float arm.

It depends on how you mount it. Anyway, once in the water, in real use it turned out to be a non-issue for me.

Keep in mind that in 3 meters of water in summer with full sun, I use it at a maximum of 30% brightness. Great battery life.
Underwater, it weights only 250g so it's easy to manage.

On 5/27/2026 at 12:39 PM, Davide DB said:

New Weefine 5" pro monitor.

Thanks for recommending this. Seems like a solid option. I’ll look into it.

On 5/27/2026 at 3:41 PM, ColdDarkDiver said:

I use the Marelux Ninja V housing. It is just fine. My complaints are the Ninja is great but really for video only.

This is super helpful. I mostly only ever shoot photos, so the video capabilities that many monitors offer are not necessarily appealing. Especially if they come at the cost of price, size, and limited functionality.

On 5/28/2026 at 1:41 AM, ColdDarkDiver said:

I use the Marelux Ninja V housing. It is just fine. My complaints are the Ninja is great but really for video only. If you can't touch the screen it is not great for stills as Canon (in stills) shows a bunch of the information under the screen parts that Ninja shows other information. You have to dig through the menu, as far as I can tell, to swap it between the HDMI clean out and the mirror, which is needed for hybrid shooting. So I would buy it again to record video and would get a different monitor/ housing if I was shooting stills. The housing is great, no issues (if not a big large... since the Ninja is a bit large).

So video and want ProRes 422 or Raw? Awesome. Hybrid within one dive? Hmmm... Stills? I would look elsewhere (including Marelux's other monitor).

These are exactly my experiences with Shinobi. Clean HDMI out ? Very good tone mapping for HDR preview. And plus for Sony users its waveform shows the levels of log signal, not interpreted (Canon users can display their own camera waveform). Want to make stills and video? Tough life. Unless shooting stills on slog3 profile. Want control monitor on a big screen? Not a chance. Lower status line obscured with housing controls even when I collapse Shinobi menu. So that’s that.