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My understanding is the FLP-06 is a glass port, not acrylic. BVA

Thanks! I don't do macro video so I'll have to give both a try. Tempted to design a focus gear to try DMF which requires Advanced mode.

Welcome Barny! I know your YouTube channel and I've seen some of your videos. Congratulations, you have some brilliant ideas. Ciao

@Phil Rudin Any update on experiences with this optic? Thank you.

Good choice - in the compact world, I'd say the main competitor would currently be the Canon V1 in that price range - it does 4K 60fps, but with a hefty crop: https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/2147-canon-v1/ https://personal.canon.jp/product/compact-digital-camera/powershot/v1 https://www.nauticam.com/products/na-cv1-for-canon-powershot-v1-digital-camera You also have the Sony RX1 R3, but the camera itself in a totally different price range...

Aloha and welcome @BarnyD

Do you think that the L10 paired with a cmc-1 will be enough for a "Shaun the sheep" macro level? @kc_moses I am still trying to understand all the new parameters (for me) mm, dioptres etc.. coming from GoPro, I never really cared about a lot of those spec 🫠

After reading the L10 post, I am almost convinced on going that route for the camera + the nauticam pro housing, since it will be officially available at the end of June, I will use this time to check the details and if there is any competitor that are valid to consider in this price range (~4000€) Any other advice from the forum will be appreciated meanwhile

That's a supercool results! Does it work also starting from video?

Hey Barny! Swarm welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us. We hope you enjoy the forum. Best wishes

I'm a videographer and YouTuber based in the UK and Indonesia! You can check out my work at youtube.com/@barnydillarstone

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I normally use Advanced mode due to occasional video. With that said, I have not seen a focus difference between Green and Advanced for photos with newer bodies. The Metabones adaptor has both a White and Red mark for the mounting the lens. As the 60 is an APS-C lens it matches the White mark. The Red mark is for EF full frame lenses. (i.e. Canon EF 8-15 or EF 100 macro)

Are you using it in Green or Advance mode?

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When I shot the Panasonic 8mm with Zen dome and also with the 60mm macro currently I used a pair of INON mega floats with 390 gr each buoyancy which was about perfect for both setups, being about 100-200 gr negative. I do see they now have a new model which has 460 gr which might be a little too much, though the Olympus fisheye is about 150 gr heavier which is about equal to the additional weight. I actually switched to using the mega arm with a 135 gr float arm I have since adding the 45° viewfinder, so I'm fairly certain the 460 gr float alone would work. I pair it with a standard 8"arm plus a long clamp between the two. The arm is the Mega arm model S: INON_globalINON Arm System [Arm]Official web site of INON INC. Manufacture of underwater imaging gears, strobes, conversion lenses, arms, housings and more.

I use the Metabones. There a catch on the lens that does not work with the MC-11.

I forgot to mention that Seacam said "This is not possible with a simple adapter", concerning my situation with Nauticam housing for Sony A7R5. I did not measure distances and compare to Seacam ( distance from housing mount to the sensor), but the information from Seacam suggests that the Seacam port, designed for Seacam housing, is too long for adapting to a Nauticam housing for Sony FF... I have no idea about Canon, but probably they will tell you when you ask them...

If you venture toward Olympus, you will likely end up reading some reviews written by Robin Wang. He uses the term „shutter therapy“ - I like that a lot. I own a Nikon APS-C, the D3300 bottom-feeder model. Bought it new as my re-entry into photography (shot 35 mm Film when I was young, nothing when our kids were young) and loved it - humble kit lens and the 50-200 for reach. Then, I bought the pre-owned Olympus housing + Epl system for UW. I thought I should get the Epl out on land to learn the Olympus menu system & controls. I literally haven‘t touched the Nikon since. M43 is great because the lenses are really small and very lightweight. The bodies are almost too small for my hands (also have a 1st gen OM5 now), but the lenses are really nice to lug around. I have both Olympus 14-42 kit lenses (fine) but my favorite combination top-side are the Panny 12-32 and the 35-100 (the slow one, tiny) in a pocket. UW, with the housing, strobes etc the size &weight difference to APS-C may be less pronounced - but if you also use the camera top-side I can say that the system is very attractive. Corner sharpness, contrast, fringes: Not an issue for me at all but AI can anyways straighten that out for you.

I use 8 Stix jumbo floats, 2 on each arm segment, for both setups. The Nauticam 4.33” FE port is not very buoyant so that setup is almost perfectly neutral, while the macro setup is slightly negative.

Interesting, at least one more lens on the Sony front. You do not know by any chance if they also offer it for Canon Lens and which one they decided to pick ? ..would be interesting to see the progression of this system. My personal opinion is that if you go for rectiliniar lenses and wider than approx 20mm focal length, things are likely to look odd / weird underwater, even if the lens has been well corrected behind a dome or OPP style optic. It would have been very interesting if @Alex_Mustard would have elaborated more on what zoom level the presented images in the video were shot and how much he cropped in each RAW. Especially the sweet lips shots and some other look to me like he is not at the ultra wide end of the setup. I also think some of Don Silcock's initial sample images - which were heavily debated at DEMA and in the community - suffered a little bit from shooting this too wide. But I may be wrong, would be interesting to see a follow up in the show and in more detail.

How much buoyancy do you usually need to add for a macro and a WA setup? I usually add Stix Jumbo floats to ULCS arms.

These are exactly my experiences with Shinobi. Clean HDMI out ? Very good tone mapping for HDR preview. And plus for Sony users its waveform shows the levels of log signal, not interpreted (Canon users can display their own camera waveform). Want to make stills and video? Tough life. Unless shooting stills on slog3 profile. Want control monitor on a big screen? Not a chance. Lower status line obscured with housing controls even when I collapse Shinobi menu. So that’s that.

Do you use the MC-11 or Metabones?

Regarding the alleged fringing problem of the Pana 8 mm fisheye on Oly bodies, we should make sure to update the camera and lens firmware to the latest version.