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Of course they did because I just bought Retra Maxi strobes. I knew it! Darn, well, it was past due a couple of years.

Hi @Pavel Kolpakov , Will these work with the Retra Maxi with the same functionality of the other Retra strobes? I was going to email, but realized that multiple people probably have the same question. Thank you.

It's been a long time coming interesting to see if it was worth the wait, so far I can only find pre-order with some basic pics on the two sites mentioned.

Inon has announced the successor of the Z-330: the Z-360. No big announcement from them, but you can find the Z-360 using google. Some shops already have it listed as pre-order. Strobe seems to use the old houising with new technique. Available july or august. Should be GN36. Somebody has more news on this?

Thank you both - yes, that was easier than I thought 😃 I just pulled on the cables and the fiber optic cables slid out The power bank fits - now I need to test it with the camera to see it it works. If it does it will just be a question of routing a flat USB cable. The powerbank I got is this one: https://www.anker.com/products/a1653-usb-c-portable-charger-5000mah?variant=42733234258070 Capacity: 5,000mAh USB-C Output: 5V⎓3A / 9V⎓2.22A / 10V⎓2.25A Total Output: 18W Max It has a dual output, male on the length (which I plan on using) and female on the side. I ordered a Ribbon Flat USB-C Data Cable 3A 10Gbps female to male and male to male, we'll see.

Thanks for the article Don. I had to laugh about your comment about bunny ears. This is my wife diving on the Liberty this April with our guide Duro. Cat ears rather than bunny ears, but she has well over 6000 dives and has a commercial dive ticket. She lost that cat-ear hood and now has a pufferfish one. We also saw a diver with a minion hood with yellow fins and accessories along with a huge Nauticam rig with WACP. This was an early morning dive and you can see it's already quite busy but this was just at the end of a long dive. When we arrived we were about the first there. No bumphead parrotfish though. We stayed and dived with Villa Markisa which was great.

I am hoping to take mine to the Red Sea in a couple of weeks to put it through its paces. Excited and curious to see how it performs. Alex

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I am looking for a second-hand Seacam housing for a D850 - anybody selling one? Don

expect you're right, I couldn't see the connector which is why I mentioned it.

bghazzal's pictures on previous page show the cable is just hanging, with a connector in the end so i'm sure its like my trt one, trigger in the camera hot shoe and connect it to the cables when sliding in.

You should also probably remove the trigger as well - is it an UWT trigger or some other type? What are the cables attached to?

Dont unscrew the nuts. They are part of the housing construction and holds the fiber connectors outside the housing and have o-rings in the construction. You need to just pull the led's (unless they are glued or something) out. Mine (trt) are just pushed in, not sure about other brands. Here is mine without led's:

I've received a PD power bank that looks like it could work (Anker Nano Power Bank 22.5W), and the camera should arrive in the next couple of days. To test the fit, I'll need to remove the optical cables from the A1 housing, but I'm not sure how theses work. Do I just need to unscrew the two nuts, and then the cables can be removed without any risk to the housing? Thanks

To be precise, this is actually Taiwanese OEM manufacturer Howshot (main distribution channel Divervision ) showing that their adaptor works with the Inon UFL-GR140 lens on the housing.

Found two reel with the new adaptor for the mission 1 case, inon is testing it with the ZD lens https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZCh17ZDxvX/?igsh=eHBsa2Y4cnAya2hm https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZKr4TsvwtL/?igsh=MXhnOXZ6ajM1Z3h0ZA==

Not sure where to post this, but I came across an excellent series on Disney+ from National Geographic called “Photographer”. Not technically underwater related although the first episode certainly touches on it in addition to conservation. Nat Geo Photographer

And the trigger module has to fit in the housing and I doubt it will go into the NA-6XXX series housings. It certainly will not in mine.

backscatter say their control module (another 400 quid) would let the atom work with their fancy ttl system but that makes the package quite a lot more than two ts-d3 duos

cap on duty in Tenerife

this grumpy chap’s expression summed up the dive perfectly…

Many thanks for the tips, I think I'm going to make a hole on the top of the buoy to put a light inside. Also, one of our dive partners is a biologist high school teacher, so he will love also to come with us and share his knowledge.

The Atom strobe will NOT work TTL using your Sony flash. Nor with the UW Technics trigger board. I have both in my NA-6400. And use either as strikes my fancy, when I need 100% reliability I go pop up. No, the Atom flash will not run TTL with either, it will do manual but only manual. Thus my new strobes are Retra Maxi. Which will run TTL with either my UWT board or the pop up flash equally well. And with my Canon NA-R50 also using the pop up very nicely, both TTL and manual. The YS-D3 should also be capable of supporting standard TTL via the pop up. I did not consider the YS strobes because of their poor reliability track record and because they are a marginal step up in power vs my excellent S220 strobes which also work standard TTL from a pop up or UWT trigger board.

Well the boat is big enough to dive comfortably, 2 engines, close cabin, and fuel capacity enough to sail through the islands. Anyway between Ibiza and Formentera is very shallow, not more than 50 meters, and spots with only 8 meters, plus the marine traffic, which in summertime looks like a highway, it's not the best place for BW. Instead that we think the north of Ibiza, near Tagomago, there are places with 150 meters depth and walls starting in 60 meters descending quick to 120, and it's closer to the port where the boat is based. And a lot less of marine traffic, so it's worth a try.

I'll do it when we start, and I hope I can post here some pictures.