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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!

It seems like they developed their own (kind of) LUTs to conform color spaces/gamuts of various camera manufacturers into Davinci wide gamut intermediate color space. Similar to what standard LUTs do to conform log profiles to rec.709. So if you want to deliver log footage for HDR rec.2020 you do not apply rec709 LUT on it. You set your project for davinci wide gamut and unless shooting arri or other cameras providing info in metadata you tell davinci manually which color space and gamma you were using recording particular clips. As for magenta - don't fret over it that much in this case. There is Magenta and there is Magenta. One magenta that you see in shadows of water column means wrong white balance. But the other magenta that you saw on my X6 sample is perfectly natural and you can see it with your own eyes when looking up the water column at certain depths with blue skies above.

I have a lovely Canon 1Dmkiii that I adore but never use anymore so should move it on and put those funds toward more underwater related things! I had a look on ebay. There are quite a few and the prices are all over the map for both the recently sold and listed. I don't understand and have no clue what price is reasonable. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to try to sell it? Can be USA or Australia as "local", but of course, can ship anywhere. Thanks!

Focusgear is sold now... Lens and Macroport are still available (620 Euro together)...

That Sigma 20-200 is very tempting as a do-everything sort of lens. Like the 12-50 on MFT but both wider and tighter. Should be a very easy zoom gear to make as well for us Nauticam folks.

Welcome from the cold, clear waters of Tasmania!

Many thanks! I was hoping that the website would say that the 3.0 offers better this, this and this and we have added this and this (compared to the 2.1), but your post has now provided that information.