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It’s been a while since I’ve been to the Red Sea, but I wouldn’t leave my macro gear at home; macro can be interesting for night dives and certain other dives.

very helpful thank you

welcome to the forums Sharyn, hope you enjoy and find them useful. What's your local dive site?

Definitely wide angle country - you can leave the macro kit at home. Basically you are doing a north reefs & wrecks trip from Hurghada - will be windy that time of year so make sure you pack a hoody. Probably 5mm wetsuit too rather than a 3mm. Best tip is to take two wetsuits - one can be drying while you are diving the other one - that way you are always putting on a dry wetsuit.

Over 50 and qualified less than 3 years. Now Rescue diver and excited for more! 🥳

Thank you! Ahhh if only to have warm clear waters 😂

Nice video. Thanks!

I was setup for wide angle, so I enjoyed the manta dives. We had a good trip, but I do think we enjoyed Raja Ampat more in comparison.

Coralia looks great. We tried to get on it, but seems they book up with charters in advance. I think you will enjoy Raja in comparison to the Caribbean. Yes, it would be nice to dive with you guys.

Nice review - thanks! Did the lens vignette at 14mm (FF) with the dome shade? Or only when you go circular?

Another review can be found here along with the article linked: https://waterpixels.net/articles/articles_news/pre-release-breakdown-of-the-new-sony-fe-8-14mm-f35-fisheye-g-r201/#findComment-561

my next trip is a liveaboard in the Red Sea in late November from Hurghada visiting all the well known sites , thistelgorm, brothers, ras mohammed and others I haven't been to the Red Sea since 1999 so my memory of the dive sites is a bit hazy I am presuming this is mostly proper wide angle territory rather than macro? My wife got a bit 'bemused' by the amount of kit that came to Indonesia, so rationalising it a bit would be good

we were first week of september I thought the vis was ok but not stellar lot of backscatter in photos- but possibly poor technique as well

We will be on the Coralia Dua for 10 days starting on December 4th. Our first time to Raja Ampat - so excited. We'll be diving Misool and Dampier Strait. It would be great to see you again on a future dive adventure!

August 23. We were on Scubaspa August 19-26 How was the visibility on your trip ? We generally had murky viz.

what day did you do the manta dive? I think we were there on 3rd september mike

If you find the camera in Ebay you should be able to filter for completed sales and that should list what they were sold for. I still have my 1D MkIV, solid camera, you could use it as a hammer in a pinch but my m43 sensor beats it out and does so much more and it's 1/3 of the size and weight! I think with Ebay and older stuff there's a lot of variation as no one wants them and good prices are random events. It just depends on who is looking and whether they know how to look up past sales.

Down here in Australia the price difference between Nauticam & Marelux isn't that great unfortunately - tariffs might be the cause of the bigger price difference in the U.S. Nauticam is supported extremely well by their distributor here - good stocks of housings, ports, focus & zoom rings, etc. Isotta fairly close to that, unfortunately the distributors for Seacam, Aquatica, Marelux, etc keep little stock and don't keep their websites up to date when new models are released etc. Having said that I am considering the Marelux Apollo III 3.0 - they have some features that suit me. The local distributors are still listing the 2.0 and haven't even listed the 2.1 yet so I will have to email them about a price for the 3.0. They haven't listed the housing for the A7RVI yet either. The other distributor doesn't list any of the Marelux strobes. I will take a look at those UWPmag articles that you mentioned - cheers!