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I only mention Nauticam as they are often the first to publish port recommendations, neither they nor Isotta have the lens in the port charts as yet. Probably better to wait than guessing which extension you need.

No rush, for the price... I have a Isotta and the Zoom gear No problem I make one in 3D printing. like the other I have In september/ october this year I travel to Tahiti... If I can have this lens... why not ( Whale, Sharks ) I all case I will also have my rectilinear WA lens and why not the 14-35 lens (No macro ;) )

I don't know. I think the likely hood of slightly overzooming and having hard edges is not worth the risk. Tape is the new zoom gear, and much more cost effective. One could tape it at 13. (but with the ability to remove the lens shade underwater, with zoom gear you can swap to the full 190, which can be fun.) It wouldn't take much of a sale to push me over the edge into buying it myself.

Probably no rush, Nauticam haven't got it on their port charts yet - a Zoom gear sounds like it will be useful even if only zooming from 13-14mm.

Well we better not use digital imaging then, a Raw image before de-bayering is not like what you see on the screen, it constructed by the Raw converter according to the secret sauce each camera manufacturer makes which uses interpolation techniques to predict what each pixel should be. Sharpening is also out as it changes contrast around edges adding or changing brighter and darker pixels to give the appearance of a more defined edge to details in the image. Noise reduction - we are predicting what is image and what is noise. This is the level of changes that are being made in the AI re-sizing we are talking about. when we do re-sizing of an image it is also predicting what pixels lie between the known pixels. The standard methods that we have all been using in photoshop or Lightroom use interpolation methods to fit either linearly or a curve between pixels. It does this whether you are going up or down in size. This is just a different method to accomplish this task and the AI is manly about recognizing noise and other artifacts and not magnifying them and only working with the actual subject data. The problem we have is that we are shooting subjects where there are no straight lines and representing them with lots of little perfect squares called pixels. This brings all sorts of problems like interference patterns, moire and avoiding jagged edges that should be smooth and throw into the mix noise which we need to separate from from the image data. Like it or not this involves computations and predictions that are used to convert all the ones and zeroes into something that is aesthetically pleasing. All of these tools are about dealing with limitations of the sensor and various artifacts that the technology creates. I don't hold with this idea of the purity of a straight out of the camera image, this is just Canon or Nikon's interpretation of what processing should be done to the image rather than my interpretation of the image and the processing needed to achieve this. Film is really no different - it's just the film manufacturers secret sauce applied in an analogue situation rather than digital. I'm not talking about cloning and adding things to images - just enhancing what the camera has recorded and dealing with all the noise and other issues in the data. I'm a complete luddite when it comes to the AI that's booming around the place right now ( quite likely a big bubble getting ready to burst) and I don't use any of it. The task specific AI like this is a different story though, it has a definite purpose and the business model is relatively sound with development paid for by licensing fees.

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I did start taking underwater photos with film - had no idea what I was doing back then at all. Played around with early digital, then went video for years and am now mostly doing stills and a little video. Current underwater cameras are TG-6 and TG-7 - looking hard at the E-M10-IV perhaps for next year. Moving to the Big Island in about a year and looking to up my game a bit more. Lembeh return trip this coming May. Diving since 1988

The cap has arrived. It’s great for big heads (me 63cm) but rather than the cheaper plastic poppers it is elasticised and much more comfortable Very nice quality too

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Hi - new here…. I hope to learn a lot and get a lot of inspiration. I am frequently rebreather diving in Lillebaelt, Denmark, and often i bring my camera rig. cheers /Henrik

Anything which predicts to create an image isn't the original image. I don't personally want to take credit for an image which AI produced.

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Thank you for this review. I'll probaly buy this lens... but I have a little bit time before the next trip... I hope the price will go down...

TTL, HSS, MANUAL, and MTL modes all work perfectly. Reel videos coming soon. PC software has already been uploaded, Mac versions will follow shortly. 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=34476515938629565&set=a.148880205153244

I mainly focus on underwater videography but sometimes I could use some good quality still images. Couple of months ago I saw a video (see below) about using video files to make high resolution still images. I'm quite convinced:

Since photography went digital there has been software that aimed for similar with varying degrees of success and some of the software was marketed as intelligent or AI. Before photography went digital, folks did it the slow way with paintbrushes, masks, scissors, magnifying glasses and a lot of skill. Based on its training and the data available a generative AI makes a well informed prediction of what the missing detail should be. With good training such a prediction can be accurate. There will be cases where the prediction is plausible but wrong, and further cases where the prediction is stupid. All generative AI image 'improvement' has done is to take another step forward in a process with a very long history.

Plus 130 EUR for the periscope stick. Btw all this was posted 2 months ago here https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/3241-nauticam-back-on-the-compact-sportsaction-market-insta360-x5/

It would be interesting to see a comparison with the original Invisible Dive Case Pro from Insta360. The price difference is huge (890 vs 140 Euro), so Nauticam case should offer something. It looks more durable and the dome ports are glass, but it also heavier (though more compact). For me a decisive factor would be image quality, especially handling stich lines and inner reflections. I'm not sure, if I would pay the extra cost of the Nauticam aluminium housing.

Proudly worn on liveaboard, in Vavuu atoll, Maldives..

masses of macro on the right dive site but the main thrust will be sharks and mantas I would bolt a go-pro onto your rig when doing macro so if something huge turns up you can at least get some images or footage

Hi, I'm a British Professional photographer and film maker living in the Philippines. I live next to Anilao, so can be found diving there most of the time, although I do travel around all over the country and other parts of Asia and the Pacific diving and making films. I have joined this forum to chat with likeminded people, browse the classifieds and enjoy the content. I hope to meet some of you in person if you are based or visiting here in the future for diving. I also do a lot of tech diving in this area. My channels are as follows: www.instagram.com/garytysonunderwater www.youtube.com/garytyson

The Ludd in me is escaping!!! How is it possible "to reconstruct detail that was present but not recorded?" Is the software cognizant of the world? I put forth that if you capture an image and then it is manipulated by a system you do not control, AI, to be something other than what was captured, it is adulterated and not the work of an original, therefore not your work.

Which itinerary will you be doing? If it's a southern one, or "sharktastic", i'd skip the macro one. If it's best of Maldives, there's macro choice, fish portraits typically, but also anemone fishes, and hawk fishes to shoot :)

Why would believe it's not your image? This is not the AI that will make an image or video for you based on a description, rather it's a specialized software designed to reconstruct detail that was present but not recorded and it's trained pairs of low and high resolution images to help make the predictions. It basically works out how to draw lines between your existing pixels rather than using a straight line or fitted curve that is used in standard upscaling. It's true it predicts the small details from upscaling but the lighting and composition is still your image, I tend to think of it as improving appearance of fine details that get lost in artifacts from standard methods of upscaling.

Is AI upscaling actually your images though? I tend to believe it's not.