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Hi everyone, I’ve recently joined Waterpixels and I’m curious to learn how underwater photographers manage species identification after a dive trip. When you come back with hundreds or thousands of images — fish, nudibranchs, crustaceans, corals, marine mammals — how do you identify everything and keep your archive searchable? I’m part of a small team working on an offline desktop tool that helps recognize species in wildlife and underwater photos, then lets the photographer review the results before adding common names, scientific names and taxonomy as keywords. The goal is not to replace expert knowledge, but to make large image archives easier to explore, organize and potentially reuse for education, research or conservation. We’re looking for a few underwater photographers willing to share their workflow and possibly test the beta on their own images. Would this be useful to you, or do you prefer keeping identification and keywording fully manual? If you’re interested here is a form to answer questions about it : https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/U3CA15?Source=Forum&[email protected] Thanks ! Feel free to reply here or message me.

Let me know if i can set you up with any gears and such.

Wow. This (carnet) resolve does not look good. It is the opposite of relaxing the rules. And more costs to visit Mexico.

Thanks guys. Went for a Nauticam Z8 housing in the end as I already own the Z8 for topside photography.

I bet - I might have to get you to give me a guided tour sometime!😄

As someone who is an officer in the fire service and is also marine firefighter qualified I can confidently say that most liveaboards I've seen have a lot of highly combustible furnishings etc in them. A liveaboard with a steel hull and superstructure is slightly better than some other construction types, but as a rough guess I would say that if a fire on a liveaboard isn't extinguished in the first 60 seconds then it will be beyond the capabilities of the crew and firefighting equipment onboard to extinguish.

In Japan, for a Mexico visit an individual would need to make a refundable cash deposit of roughly 50% of the value of the equipment for an ATA Carnet if they do not qualify for JCAA's guarantee scheme criteria 😅 The carnet itself isn't that bad - around €200 for €20,000 worth of equipment - but that would mean a €10,000 refundable deposit! I think Mexico must be one of the only countries in the world to tax personal diving and imaging equipment brought in by recreational diving tourists in this way. ¡Chingón!

It's really lucky to have so many UW brands and factories around.😀

So they are basically saying to use ATA carnet. Thanks but no thanks. Individual cant even get ATA carnet in Finland, only registered companies.

Here is the document attached. Adios.

You certainly live in a good location to obtain all sorts of underwater photography bits and pieces!

Back 30 years ago there wasn't a lot of doodads or doohickeys around! I remember how excited I was when Sea&Sea released the little bracket for MMII that you could mount extra lenses onto that attached to an arm!

Many thanks - will check them out!

https://interceptor121.com/2024/01/06/methods-to-determine-the-appropriate-dome-port-for-a-wide-angle-lens-in-an-underwater-housing/ Might be some help there? DYI forum has some more info buried inside threads like this https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/3672-3d-printed-curved-glass-macro-port-nikon-60mm-n120/page/2/

If using an oddball wide angle lens that doesn't appear in the Nauticam tables, is there a method to work out where the dome port should sit in relation to the front of the lens? (to enable me to work out what extension rings I should fit?). Hopefully there is a method that gets at least close so as I don't have to do too much trial and error!

Many thanks for this great thread - it is very helpful, hopefully you will get the chance to update the tables sometime too.

Many thanks - I will check that thread out! The Weefine sounds like it will work fine!

Have you checked out this thread? https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/2417-list-of-underwater-monitors/ I currently use the Weefine WED-5 Pro on an A7SIII - i don't dive on a reb but regularly do two hour+ shallow dives for macro videography. Depending on the brightness settings and how you use it (on all the time or not), I can confirm the WED-5 Pro lasts more than two hours. It's very bright and I usually have it on 30% to 50% display max here in sunny Okinawa. The first day testing it with the camera I did 2x two hour dives, leaving the monitor on, display at 30%. Monitor battery ran out 40 minutes into the second dive, so a runtime of 160 minutes at 30% . Monitor output was 1080p, on almost all the time, in 26°C water. This is pretty good for a single 21700 battery. Turning it off, when travelling for instance, would extend battery life further. hope this helps! cheers

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