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Hi Maria, thanks for the welcome! Hopefully I should have some new photos to post soon as off to Lembeh for 3 weeks in May.

Has anyone mounted a SLR/mirrorless camera to a DPV? Not looking for small GoPro action camera options. Curious what works well and how much filming/photographing was done with the camera still mounted to the DPV vs removing the camera from the DPV to shoot. Also considering building my own mount too.

Landbased at TBD, it was the third time I tried to go then either canceled or on a (denied) waitlist. I could have been their 2nd client 10 years ago : 4 months before my planned stay, I met a manager from a very famous resort in Raja Ampat who told me Triton Bay Divers was a joke and that they'll never open in this area. Usually I don't listen to such "opinions" and like to go my own way, unfortunately I did this time. However it confirmed how some famous people of a very famous resort can be full of BS. Would never trust this guy.

Hi Alex, Nicely shot and edited as usual. Tell us more about technique used: ambient light, lights, blue filters? Ciao

In fairness, and unlike the sometimes silly airline carry-on weight and size limitations, lithium batteries are a risk and none of us has any way to know what kind of cheap or damaged or over-discharged batteries our fellow travelers might be carrying. I have done a fair bit of traveling recently and dive resorts and liveaboards are also imposing lots of restrictions. No charging batts in cabin or room unless you are present, no overnight charging anywhere, etc. I have mostly stopped taking power banks because of the limitations and have stopped leaving batteries in devices in checked bags, even AA batts,. Although technically legal, I beleive that was the cause of my bags being pulled and inspected twice and I don't want to increase the risk of bag delays, theft, etc. I have been a good boy and take lithium batteries in proper containers and if in devices, they are fully charged and blocked from being activated, but we are all subject to the consequences of others' carelessness or bad decisions. Unfortunately this is all happening at the same time light and strobe manufactures are using more lithium batteries in the equipment. I purchased a dive light online recently and was disappointed to see it came with an unprotected, no-name battery and protected batteries are too long to work in the light. I understand and appreciate the benefits of the lithium technology, and am fine with exercising proper precautions myself, but it may put us in a bit of a conflict with increasing airline, boat and resort rules, as fires and other issues ramp up, due in no small part to careless behavior by others. Of course there is nothing new in that.

Thank you! I have to say that I used AI to do most of the heavy lifting but hopefully it can enhance people's underwater photography experience. I'd love to, in time have a mobile companion app where you can access your photos but without some sort of cloud storage to sync to I'm not sure how it would work

This is totally amazing! Well done for developing it and sharing as open source.

Very nice, thanks for sharing

Fabulous news @RomiK look forward to hearing how you get on with it and see your results 👏 Thanks for the nudge @Sokrates you can tell I needed more coffee 😁. I've been super busy juggling a lot of underwater stuff! Thanks too @Nikolausz - it does look like an amazing piece of kit, really looking forward to the results from it. Happy Easter All! Maria

Seems wide for a prime to shoot pelagics. If you haven't tried the 16 f/2.8 it makes a nice small package (no extension) and gets you to 2.8 - although likes a big dome which defeats some of the "small profile" advantage. It plays nice behind the domes at least. Corners are bad at small apertures which may not be an issue for large pelagics. I'd go for the 14-35 for that purpose since I would want some reach. I haven't use the 15-35 f/2.8 - does it out perform the 14-35 underwater? I have found the 14-35 OK but outperformed by the 15-30 (non-L) behind a dome.

Hi Wyvern, Welcome to the group from me who's in not so sunny Swanage in Dorset! Look forward to seeing your images. Maria

I mostly use the cooler bags to transport my camera to and from dive boats to pad and protect.

For my upcoming Cozumel trip, I’m planning to use the AO cooler as both a tote and a rinse tank, instead of bringing a separate mesh bag. For the flights, I’ll fold it in half, vacuum pack it, and tuck it into the front pocket of my suitcase, though I could also use it as a carry-on or to line another bag. For diving, I’ll place a 10L nylon dry sack inside and use it to transport my gear to and from the boat. Once on the boat, the dry sack comes out and the cooler gets filled with fresh water as a rinse tank, as suggested by the dive shop. After the dive, I’ll dump the water, pack my wet wetsuit and other gear inside along with the dry sack, and take it back to the hotel, while leaving my BCD, reg, and fins on the boat.

Hello! I'm new to the forums and a diver and underwater photographer, and I've been building a desktop app called Pelagic, basically a dive logbook and photo organiser rolled into one, with a few bells and whistles attached. The idea came from being frustrated with having dive logs in one place, photos in another, and species IDs scattered across notes etc. So in theory it connects to 60+ dive computers (Shearwater, Suunto, Garmin, Scubapro, Mares, etc.) using the open source libdivecomputer library although I've only managed to test my Suunto eon core and garmin files so far. Once you've imported your dives and added them to a trip, you can add your photos and as long as your dive computer time/date and your camera's are somewhat synced up it will automatically sort your photos into the imported dives. Once imported to your photo library you can tag species with common and scientific names, add a google gemini API key for AI ID, and writes all the metadata back to your images as XMP so it survives into Lightroom or whatever your editing workflow is, speaking of which you can launch your preferred editor directly from the app. Once edited Pelagic will track the edited file and import it back into the app enabling you to side by side compare the raw and edited versions. There's also a built-in community map, a global database of dive sites contributed by Pelagic users. All data is anonymous so no usernames or personal info are attached to submissions. You can browse dive sites, see what species have been spotted there, and check depth ranges where sightings occurred. It's the kind of thing that's genuinely useful for trip planning or if you're heading to a new area you can pull up nearby sites and see recent observations. It works the other way too, after your dives, your species tags feed back into the database so the next person planning a trip benefits from your data. The whole thing runs on the idea that shared, anonymous sighting data makes everyone's diving better. There's also an equipment tracking system, you can catalog all your dive and camera gear with brand, model, serial numbers, and purchase dates. You can group items into equipment sets (like your cold water kit vs. tropical setup, or your macro rig vs. wide angle), so you've got a quick record of what you took on each trip and it all stays in the log history. Handy for insurance purposes, keeping track of service intervals. Still actively developing it and there's a ton more features I haven't covered here. Always looking for feedback from other UW shooters on what would actually be useful and what you find easy/hard, intuitive/unintuitive etc. It's completely open source and free, the code is here https://github.com/wyvernp/pelagic and can be downloaded from https://github.com/wyvernp/pelagic/releases. Anyway, looking hearing any feedback and being part of the community. Cheers!

Thank you for the warm welcome and for looking into the location issue!

Hi Wyvern, Welcome aboard! We look forward to knowing about your software. Just post about it. Regarding the location issue we will investigate ASAP. Ciao

Awesome! Landbased or liveaboard?

I was thinking the 1.4 would be good for Norway for orcas. The wacp-1 requires a 28mm so won't work. It seems like a nice lens but just to new. Was hoping one of you were excited about it too grab it and test 😂

Hey everyone! Just signed up, been lurking for a bit and figured it was time to say hello properly. From a diving perspective, I mostly enjoy muck and have recently upgraded to an A7r v after an unfortunate flood last year. Here to learn, and hopefully contribute. I have been developing a dive logging/photo managment desktop app, which I'll make a separate post about, would love to get some feedback on it. Quick heads up to the mods: the site seems to have grabbed my location as Sweden rather than the UK, so if you could update that for me I'd appreciate it! Wyvern

The AOI trigger (at least the Olympus one) is IR based, not much brightness to see. I have had NO issues with the AOI and the MF1 Bill the ==

I received the AO cooler today. It is quite large. I don't think I'll take it to Roatan, but I do think it will be nice for local CA diving.

Great video!

Probably no real advantage unless you really need the speed, but shooting wide open even in a 230mm dome is going to produce pretty horrible corners. Then there's the question about whether it plays well behind a dome and also if it will work behind a WACP-2, probably more likely to work on this optic than the WACP-1, the large front element can be the issue for these optics. The WACP-2 might be a chance as it works with the Sony 14mm f1.8.

Aloha, My name is Terry and I am an underwater photographer based in Hawaii. I am interested in the Canonn RF 14 1.4 for shooting sharks, people, whales, and orcas. The lowlight capes would be good for Norway for orcas I would assume. I am not sure what extension would be needed for a 230mm dome or a wacp-2 but if anyone has tested it or any insight I'm open to hear. I have one available near me so just debating if it's gonna be better then my 14-35 f4 or my 15-35 2.8.

Wow just wonderful! As much as I enjoyed your u/w shots I also really liked the drone and topside shots. Nice work!