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Does anyone know how to remove/swap a knob on the Z-330? It looks like there’s a set screw, but the hole goes all the way through. I’d like to change the power knob to anything else (hopefully swap with my Z-240 knob) so it’s a different shape. I’ve been backlighting macro subjects lately, and it’s impossible to keep track of which knob is which when the strobe is upside-down and backwards. I noticed the Backscatter strobes had a feature “the power and mode switches are different shapes!” and hoped I might be able to do that myself.

I just got this lens to use with the Dome Port #18414. I have the recommended extension #48457 (54.5mm). Something is off the lens at 14mm with about 1/4 inside the dome port opening causing serious vignetting not seen with other wide angles lens with this port. Coourious what extension to you use with this lens/dome port combo. FYI I have contacted Aquatica and they are are working on a solution but I figured I check here if any one else uses this lens with this housing Thanks!

Left the cables very long but easy to stow under the bands I have on my arms. Found something in my junk drawer to get them attached to the housing as well.

Hi Robert! A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Ahhh yes, I know that warm water vacation diver feeling all too well. I just sold my dry suit...... We hope you really enjoy the forum. Good to have you with us. Best wishes

@Tom Kline thanks for sharing. Attached is the approach I am taking. Some things that aren't obvious in the forum is that I am including non-english common names where I can if you have that selected. I am also going to include the region that was used for the match which is just the countries selected. I haven't decided if I will go more granular than country yet but it's possible.

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... and the news are good and bad. Like life just can't be simple... The good news is the sharpness at certain focal length is just awesome. Like miles ahead of a 360 Pro dome. All sample screenshots - the active type is yellow in thumbnails names. The bad news is the seam. I am hoping that there is some work going on with Insta360 and nauticam which would fix the issue but for now the seam is soooo visible and inaccurate. Basically unusable if the shot includes short - medium distance (and that's where sharpness excels the most). So it seems the main strength of this product are 180 shots for documentary reasons as long as these shots originate on one of two spheres. Just dont even think of having invisible seam for in between footage. For like wide angle shots without close subject or in another words infinity shots I would say the results are comparable from what I see. Mind you this is a poorly lit pool so we shall see that results are we going to get from reef shots with abundance of light but it could be similar. So no big difference. and the bad seam for subject 2m away you can judge yourselves... And lastly another ugly child is the lamp projection. You can see where my lamp was so do your own caculations as to where the housing was when it projected this So all in all not what I expected from Nauticam. I expected water contact optics - their solution is their own dry optics in a custom shape glass dome. I expected excellent invisible seam due to 190 claimed angle and the seam is quite visible and even at the distance. And for now I leave aside that ugly dome light projection... So even though the 180 quality is quite good the question which needs to be asked is why would they release such inferior product for a 360 degrees camera. I was expecting they would put their awsome water contact optics on it and not their own version of dry optics in a glass dome... This ugly child has quite a potential to tarnish otherwise great reputation so in their shoes I would probably take it off the market and come back with something that works rather than keep selling this inferior product further. What do you think?

I'm very much hoping to do a set for a set, but perhaps you'd sell?

Looks like your current gear isn't holding you back!

Still figuring out lengths and how I want to connect to the DSLR style connectors. Planning on working through that this afternoon.

Sigh. $400. Any lower than this, and I'll just donate it to the local aquarium.

Thanks Tom, that's probably the most comprehensive and easy to follow structure i've seen.. I had been dreading trying to retrospectively organise mine - was very time consuming to start with. I'm now re-energised - a job for a rainy day.... with a quiet beer, of course!

Yeah, I’m not sure the WACP route will yield any gains that are really worth it for me compared to the WWL. Maybe if I start shooting at home in the Baltic Sea regularly… that does not involve flights.

@Jens H what browser/machine combo were you looking at the site on?

Long time northeast diver but now I'm strictly a warm water vacation diver (dry suite shrunk). Started with underwater photography back in the 80's with a Nikonos but never transitioned to a UW SLR/DSLR housing until this year when I switch to mirrorless. I now use a Aquatica Z8 housing and Ikelite strobes. I've been testing it over the last month and have a trip planed for the 1 week in May to the Keys. Looking forward to using full size camera in the water.

Very good points, Chris. Put differently, it is a bit like working with an upscaled image that is almost APS-C in size. Because you are using only the center of the optical system, the “corners” improve — although they are not really true corners anymore — much as they would if the photographer had simply cropped from the center of the image. So if one wanted to frame it positively, the credit for the improved corners and the straighter rendering arguably goes more to the air lens and its lens corrections than to the water-contact correction optic. 😉 The obvious downside, of course, is this: why take an expensive and bulky full-frame system underwater if you could achieve similar image quality with a more affordable and compact APS-C setup? Interesting - where did you find that? I’d really like to dig into those calculations.

Yes, it's unclear exactly what sets this and it varies between the WWL and WACP models as to which lenses they work with. I would guess that port charts for these optics are fairly complete and to get a better optic use the chart to help, but probably involves going to a WACP. I would think that the main limitation with some of these bigger lenses is the flat port size (port ID or the m67 port diameter causing vignetting), or some of the small primes a short enough port to properly accommodate them.

I looked into using the z24/1.8 with the wwl-c a while ago and this was the issue. Front element cause vignetting.

welcome aboard, some nice shots there, we can certainly help with GAS!

I only recently got into u/w photography after dabbling in above water wildlife photos as a hobby for a few years. I was fortunate enough to spend the second half of last year traveling around the Pacific and doing a ton of diving and photographing! I'm now fully hooked and working on upgrading my set up (that gear acquisition syndrome hits hard). A few of my favorites from my travels.

Most of the footage was shot near Mount Conero, therefore central Adriatic, in what they call "the Italian Lembeh". The water is on average very cold. It is a shallow sea with strong temperature fluctuations that partly protect it from these tropical species. But for example near Venice there has been an invasion of blue crabs for years now which have destroyed all the clam farms. The blue crab has no temperature issues. For example the fireworm has unfortunately become quite common in the Gulf of Naples and specimens have also been sighted in Tuscany where I usually dive. For a project on alien species I tried to find them with no luck. Ciao

That's a great project and I would love to beta-test it. Tagging species is very tedious - I do have a few folders where I did that to the best of my abilities (and that best is not going to be anywhere near as thorough as Tom!).

The link works, but I'm unable to click to join the beta.