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Welcome aboard! We have an amazing article. It says pretty everything on this topic:

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Hi all. I'm Ben. Based in Israel. AOW, somewhere in the low hundreds of dives, a lot of them the same sites in Eilat because for a few years that was the weekend: drive south, dive, drive back. I shoot a phone in a housing and a GoPro. No strobes. So most of my underwater frames come back blue, and I'm here to learn from people who actually know what they're doing with light and colour underwater. Happy to be useful where I can. Mostly listening for now.

Definitely wide-angle for the day dives. I’ve pretty much given up on daytime macro in the R/S. Macro makes good sense though for the night dives and, yep, not something too demanding in terms of “finding “ the subject in the viewfinder. So 60mm on FF. As CCRphoto says, it’ll be starting to get a bit nippy. Wrap up warm, Mike 😜

yep - three night dives are planned so I will take a short macro lens and port anyway which shouldn't upset the other half too much... definitely planning a hoody and tracky bottoms for the evenings

@Chris Ross yeah, I filtered for sold items and it was all over the map. Guess I'll just have to pick a number from the ether to start! I remember getting her in the sexiest black box - best "unboxing" of any bit of gear. She is a beast but I loved shooting with her, despite the size & weight! Not anymore, now I'm a poor weak delicate flower 😆

It’s been a while since I’ve been to the Red Sea, but I wouldn’t leave my macro gear at home; macro can be interesting for night dives and certain other dives.

very helpful thank you

welcome to the forums Sharyn, hope you enjoy and find them useful. What's your local dive site?

Definitely wide angle country - you can leave the macro kit at home. Basically you are doing a north reefs & wrecks trip from Hurghada - will be windy that time of year so make sure you pack a hoody. Probably 5mm wetsuit too rather than a 3mm. Best tip is to take two wetsuits - one can be drying while you are diving the other one - that way you are always putting on a dry wetsuit.

Over 50 and qualified less than 3 years. Now Rescue diver and excited for more! 🥳

Thank you! Ahhh if only to have warm clear waters 😂

Nice video. Thanks!

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