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Ah yes 🙈 sometimes my mind races ahead of fingers 🤣

I try it from an other PC.... it doesn't work.. I guess I reached my upload limit. @Davide DB Can you check please Thanks

Interesting experience, thanks for sharing (and not re-iterating the curses). It would be nice to be able to program two focus positions into the camera, say on an Fn button or so, for a given lens. Then we could have it all- fix-focus for reef and CFWA plus AF if we want to. And the ability to switch rapidly and reliably between all this. Does that exist?

Thank. I am very happy to be a part of this amazing community.

Hi everyone, I am looking for a 3D printable file (.STL) for a Nauticam zoom gear for the Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens. I am using it inside a Nauticam NA R6 housing with an EF-RF adapter and a Saga 4" Minidome. Does anyone happen to have a tested file or a parametric design they could share? Thank you so much for your help!

Welcome aboard Francesco! Ciao

Hi everyone! My name is Francesco and I am just starting out with underwater photography. I am shooting with a Canon R6 in a Nauticam housing. Thank you so much to anyone who can help me learn the ropes! Best regards, Francesco

There is a problem. It's impossible to post some other pictures. I already reboot my PC...

A drop in the ocean but definitely a good news

I am sorry I sold that lens and the minidome several years ago. The quality was great, but for video it was really not very usable except few cases. I still remember its MFD and ability to focus on the dome and even inside it. Once I went for a dive in a mountain lake with 40 meters of visibility. From the bottom I had filmed all the houses in the village and the trees. AMAZING!!! I went back home all excited, only to find out that the camera had focused always and only on a tiny speck of dust on the inner surface of the dome. Mountain legends say that on foggy nights the curses of a stranger can still be heard echoing in the valleys. P.S. No, I did not notice it on the small display given the huge depth of field of the FE and at that time I still missed the wonders of focus peaking.

Hi After some trouble with my setup, I need to changed my FO... I decided to use some of the fiber I bought at the group purchase @TimG organize some times ago. I already had a 3D printed I build... but I wanted to have a more versatile version. That's the reason I build a new version. This have 3 variant one for 2 mm fiber on for a 3 mm fiber and the last for 2 2mm fiber. The result is

I think there’s two aspects to this - using a very specific lens that’s off the charts and then the « tinkering » , i.e. how to actually fit it in a system. Tinkering is a fun project for some «dry » evenings /weekends but ultimately only rewarding if the photography gains something from it. I adapted a manual fisheye for a simple m43 system and that was fun (you can find a post somewhere on this site). For dome-ports, a simple way to verify a reasonably correct position is to take a split shot and look at whether off-center vertical lines match between above and below. There are also some reports on this on the forum, @DreiFish has included this in his testing-routine which I think is as good as it gets. The MF fisheye exercise is image -wise of course nonsense for m43 because the AF lenses exist and are even quite affordable. For me, it was a test to see whether I like shooting a FE (which I bought for above-water use) under water. Fisheyes can be used fix-focus as @Phil Rudin described and I got some good shots with my setup. I can change focus for CFWA but that is difficult to verify under water. Keeper-rate is so-so. Rectilinear wide lenses have a shallower depth of field than FE and are more sensitive to the curved virtual image - that does not make focusing easier. And I think doing macro with an MF lens will be very challenging. Yes, one may anyways choose to pre-focus an AF lens and then use focus-peaking to pull the trigger. But having at least the option of AF will make you more flexible and faster for unexpected opportunities. What’s better, a sharp frame that you need to crop or the ideal focal length and framing but slightly out-of-focus? AF may not be what I miss most on my FE, but changing the aperture is important for sunball shots and those are a staple for FE. I am looking out for a second-hand Panny 8mm on the classifieds, that’s the bottom line.

That weird perspective could work well in some situations - and be a downright pain in others!

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That is a big lump of glass, 90mm diameter. 580 gr and $AUD2800 in round numbers. Keep in mind that very wide rectilinears produce weird perspective effects with the foreground objects looming very large.

I understood that you were talking about the housings and not the cameras only from the prices 😇

Keep in mind you can lens correct a fisheye to rectilinear and there are wreck shots which really suit an uncorrected fisheye. Adding a TC to the 8-15 is popular for a reason as well. On the less expensive side I'm going to experiment with shooting a EF-S version Tokina 10-17 on my Sony FE, so far it gives full frame coverage from 16mm. I might even try a TC to see if I can get FF coverage on the wide side. It won't be poster worthy IQ, but lots of winning shots have been made with that lens. I will likely look at the Laowa AF 8-15 when it becomes available, especially if it can accommodate a TC.

yeah when you do multi items it calculates the total. maybe I can add a option above multi item listing for Package Price, and use that as the listing price or show both and if you sell 1 or more items have the kit price drop off and use the total from items left. have to think about that. for now I suggest, putting in the comments the cheaper package price.

Problem solved: I just saw the "edit" button to the right...😄

Good to hear your thoughts that the Tamron has a good chance of working well underwater. That Laowa 12mm working behind a 140mm dome sounds excellent for reef scenes in the Red Sea etc!

You probably went through much the same pain at the time as I did when "proper" housings for SLR's first came out and everyone was trying to figure out which lenses worked and which ones didn't - and at times we couldn't work out why one would work and another one didn't.

I just have put my Sony 90mm macro lens, Focus gear and the nauticam macroport in the marketplace... I listed the individual items and added the entire package (=cheaper) as a separate item. Now the sum shown is the individual items plus the package... => Nobody will have a closer look when seeing this false price... => How can I edit the announce and cancel the package? Thanks, Wolfgang

I think the Tamron 12-20mm will be well suited to U/W work simply because at 12mm if will focus to 18cm. With the proper extension it should work well behind domes in the 200mm and larger range. This is not the case with lenses like the Nikon Z 14-24mm F/2.8 and Sony FE 12-24mm F/2.8 GM that only focus to 28cm. Another excellent very wide lens is the Laowa 12mm F/2.8 AF for FE & Z. This lens will focus to 14cm and is usable behind a 140mm dome with proper extension. This lens is much less expensive than the 12-20 at $699.00. If you want a less expensive fisheye that natively mounts on Nikon Z checkout the 7Artisans 10mm f/2.5 AF MAX Fisheye Lens (Nikon Z).