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But at that point you have more compact capable cameras expressly made for content creators with proper af, microphone and I/Os

In my opinion, when the 1 inch sensors were introduced, they should have also implemented an AF system into these small cameras. I wouldn't call them action cameras but small content creator cameras. Most of them are not used for sport anyway.

Dave, great to see the project is successful. I am very interested in whether you can do it in a Subal mount. I have got the glass and o-rings and am willing to support such a project. I also believe others are very likely to be interested, too.

I am off for the Sardine Run in a few days, and am suffering complete paralysis-of-analysis re what lens to use: Fisheye or rectilinear WA. My options are: Olympus 8mm FE in Nauticam system Tokina 10-17FE in a Marelux system Panasonic 7-14mm in Nauticam At present, I am leaning towards the Tokina because of the flexibility it will provide - but the Marelux setup is significantly heavier and harder to swim with if chasing action on the surface. So my preference would be to take the Nauticam MFT system bc of how much smaller and lighter it is - in which case i need to decide between the 8mm or the 7-14. For those of you who have shot the Sardine Run - what’s focal length/FOV gets used the most often? I realize there is an element of luck involved but how likely are you to be close enough to the bait ball to need a fisheye? Any thoughts would be appreciated. ChatGPT says that generally people dont miss fisheyes and a rectilinear WA will be sufficient for most shooting scenarios.

My good old Sola 1200 Photo light is still working, but… my charger suddenly stopped working. The green LED indicator light does not illuminate when I plug the charger into the power outlet, there is no DC currency at the golden contacts, the LEDs on the Sola lamp body do not flash. I opened the body of the charger. No visible damage, but I cannot remove the board, maybe it is glued to the housing (with some reddish substance). Seems to be impossible to buy a replacement charger, all out of stock. Plan A: If someone on this list is willing to sell his/her charger please contact me (I live in Germany). Plan B: I could buy a standard charger with 8.4V/2A output, cut the L&M plug from the original charger and connect it to the new charger. BUT: Where is -, where is + ??? I cannot test on my broken charger... On the plug there are two golden contacts (#1 and #3 in the attached pic) and a silver pin (#2, which probably is only needed to prevent a wrong connection). Could anybody help me with the polarity? Would be too bad to say goodbye to my Sola just because the charger is broken. Greetings, Jock

I have been using a small Subal dome on my Nauticam for years now-learned it from Seagipsy. way nicer than a flat port. Nauticam does not make a big enough glass port to use the lines we want shoot so Subal and Seacam hybrids are the ticket. Subal stoped making these small domes long ago. I think Seacam did the same. My favorite least for fish and macro on same dive is the Nikon 70-180 macro lens behind the small some (not a fisheye) like the one you are making. Just did 65 dives with that setup in Bali Last month. Dave you should start making these for sale.

And it helps a lot spending money 😁

Hi Jock! A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us and congratulations on the retirement. A long and happy one I hope. Best wishes

Hi Kevin! Great to have you with us. A warm welcome to Waterpixels. I suggest you start a new thread with your question under the appropriate forum as that’ll get more views than here in the Members Intro thread. Best wishes.

I was about to get both, but the port fact, and morover the flip sistem for the macro I will have on, would rend useless option A Thanks! As always, this forum helps a ton with underwater photo knowledge 😁

Options B will give you more flexibility in tems of placement, and as you wrote will allow to mount something else on there - you can also add a small arm if you need the gopro to be higher for instance. Option A can work, but remember you have a port to clear so might need to have the action cam a little higher to get the right angle. I would definitely go with something flexible like B over A.

Found the same reel, it's not a small problem for lens owners who wanted to upgrade the GoPro path, I'll paste the link for it for who want to see Mission 1 lens test I'm even happier now I choosed the L10 upgrade

I am deciding which solution would be best to mount the GoPro on the cold shoe, since the price is not that high, if I cannot select one option, I will get both, but I don't like to have around gear I don't use. So, what option you would suggest? Option A: simpler, easier to remove, less adjustments, direct cold shoe to GoPro Option B: heavier, longer and harder to mount/remove ( if not removed entirely from the cold shoe, in that case is the same), more adjustable, more pieces, can mount a focus light or anything else instead of the GoPro + double clip Option C: Another solution I didn't think about

Greetings, I'm primarily here to use the classifieds to try and offload some gear I'm upgrading from, but as I start to take this hobby more seriously I realize this is also probably a great resource for overcoming some of my current challenges! My wife and I started diving about two and half years ago and have made a number of dive centric trips since (Curaçao, Roatan, Cozumel, Belize, West Palm). Our next big trip is a north route live aboard in the Red Sea. I got started with photography after our first big trip to curaçao. I brought a DJI Osmo 4 with no expectations and no real knowledge and realized a few things: I'm never going to watch videos but I will definitely hang photos on my walls, and this shit is hard and I'll need some proper equipment for wall-worthy photos. I got an e-m10 mk iv with a couple compact AOI strobes and a wide angle wet lens and have been at it for our past three vacations. There's definitely times where I think "not much new and interesting to shoot today, maybe I'd just be happier leaving the camera and focusing on diving..." and then random magic happens. I know very little about photography but I have tried to learn some basics about exposure and framing, and I generally try to trust my instincts and take advantage of the opportunities I have. I think this is primarily a numbers game where you take as many photos as you possibly can, and if you're lucky maybe 1-2% of them will be worth sharing. My biggest struggle right now as I move on from an auto editing app into real photo editing software is with color correction and masking. Hopefully I can learn some of that through the resources here. Thanks for having me, Kevin

For compare and contrast purposes, here are a couple of images from earlier in the week with a standard 60mm Nauticam Flat port.

I dove the Curved Glass port with the Nikon 60mm & Nikon Z8 lens. I put the port on a 20mm (19 really) port base and connected to a 40mm printed extension ring. Everything worked great! Local visibility is not stellar right now but a lot better than earlier this week during a heat wave. I dove a Seattle muck diving site on Alki Beach and found it to be overrun with giant nudibranchs feeding on Sea Pens. Here a few sample photos: Nikon Z8 w/Nikkor 60mm lens, Curved Port, f14@1/200s iso400 Backscatter Atom strobe & snoot + BS MF-2 Nikon Z8 w/Nikkor 60mm lens, Curved Port, f5.6@1/200s iso80 Backscatter Atom strobe & snoot + BS MF-2 Nikon Z8 w/Nikkor 60mm lens, Curved Port, f6.3@1/200s iso100 Backscatter Atom strobe & snoot + BS MF-2

Hi there, I used to be a very active diver for 25+ years, read and post on good ol' wetpixel, but then reduced my diving to just a handful of dives per year - just did not have enough time. Now that I am retired I hope to be more active again! Kind regards from Germany, Jock

Welcome from just across the water in BC

You can get great pictures of blue sharks with and without strobes. I prefer to use strobes to get better-balanced pictures of the white bellies of the sharks. I did a couple of trips with Joe Romeiro in Rhode Island. Unfortunately, he doesn't offer these trips anymore. End of August/beginning of September, I booked two trips with "Blue Shark Snorkel" in Cornwall.

Which company are you going with out of curiosity? , i'm tempted to try this too and there are many providers.. Thanks!

As an update, my camera tray finally arrived today and I got the camera in the housing for the first time. I can confirm it works - the Anker powebank fits in the housing and powers/charges the camera - the only thing I will need to look out for is cable routing, to make sure they don't get in the way of any gear operation. I used an 20cm aliexpress 10Gbps ribbon cable for the powerbank. It fits with HDMI cable plugged in (I used a Nauticam HDMI cable rather than my Weefine screen's, as the Nauticam cable is shorter and faces the right way for my camera's HDMI port) Here is the A7SIII in its NA-A1 housing, with the Anker battery pack connected and a Weefine WED-5 Pro screen connected, currently vaccum testing the whole thing (I have the 28-60 in a 100mm port, hence the nasty vignetting - I'll set up the 100mm later today) Depending on camera battery / use, the powerbank charges the battery or, when it gets low, extends battery life. Camera battery was at 65% and it's now up to 78% cheers

I don’t think the tech is ready for 360 images out of 360 cams. Insta 360 Pro housing is not good enough even for video and Nauticam’s case while superior in terms of sharp seas still has issues with stitching plus produces very nasty flare if there is sun ball in the image. For docu video it’s ok. But not for what you need.

Hello neighbor! I am also in WA, up north in the islands (when I am home, currently based overseas)