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Not much of that sounds fun, George. Very glad to hear the surgeries were successful. I hope the mice enjoyed their gourmet snack. Little rascals! And, to top that, a very warm welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us. Best wishes

Hello, After a hip replacement and ablation procedure, both 100% successful, I am hoping to start diving more regularly again, but likely not enough to get the required dives in to handle my big Aquatica D850 rig again. While inactive, mice chewed holes in my dry suit, it couldn't be repaired, so I bought a new one and am ready to go again. Maybe I'll change my mind and get my diving skills back to where I can manage the multi-tasking skills of underwater photography again.

Thanks, That’s the conclusion we came up with. I did order the 39.5mm since have a trip scheduled in 2 weeks. I provide the measurement numbers that Aquatica would need to calculate what extension to use yesterday. Since it’s the weekend I figured I just reproduced a 39.5mm extension in Fusion and that is printing now. I’ll also print a 42mm version that you just pointed out. It’s a crude test to see which one will not vignette but I don't have the numbers of the dome port to find the Nodal point of this dome.

Unboxing Gopro Mission 1 pro series

It's going to be nice camera for sure. I would still wait for some reviews for overheating and low light performance before ordering. Especially after being kinda burned by ordering new product from another reputable brand we all like and use 🤣 And for those waiting for 8k here are screenshots from another camera with 1.1 inch sensor (action6 - yes, pixel size 1.2 vs 1.6 microns to be fair) taken in less than perfect light conditions over at Malpelo. The noise is staggering. Switching to 4k and pixel binning enabled low light mode and it was ok-ish but the 8k was unwatchable. 8K samples (just for noise demo) and 4k low light As there is no new breakthrough in sensor development and quad bayer is a quad bayer I would expect new gopro perfomance to be about the same. What's gonna be more important in my opinion is whether they will allow multiple custom video modes to be created (aspect ration, low light, 4k120, 8k30 etc and mode switching available through side button like DJI has. And startup times. In my memory Hero12 sucked in this department.

Looking at the specs for the 14-30 vs 14-24 lens the total length with lens extended (for the 14-30) is 114mm vs 125mm for the 14-24, this says that the 14-30 should use approximately 11mm less extension than the 14-24 as a first pass guess, however the port charts show the same extension for both lenses, which seems to be an error. A starting point would likely be the 48462 extension at 39.5mm long which is the next smaller extension at least on their extension length chart: https://www.bluewaterphotostore.com/content/portchart/Aquatica/aquaticaextensionchart.pdf a 48455 plus 48456 (25.5 + 16.5) for a total of 42mm is another possible combo. If you had some other extensions already for other lenses you could try them yourself. If Aquatica are working on it probably best to wait for them as this assumes the same position for the entrance pupil in both lenses. They are probably close but may vary a bit in how far they are from the front of the lens.

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For ambient light shots it should be fine, but it doesn't work with flash as it takes multiple very short exposures and combines them, so flash sync won't work and is locked out I believe. The main reason to use it UW is to stay inside flash sync speed, so it would defeat the purpose of using it. The other issue is that the fastest shutter speed is 1/60 for ND2 and it gets slower as you increase ND strength and for some subjects 1/60 might be a little slow. A better solution is probably to use a manual flash trigger which allow you to go up to 1/400 with manual flash without running into sync problems. Combine that with low ISO extension of 100 or 80 and you'll get two stops less exposure in total at ISO80.

It's likely a roll pin.

Great video! Those flasher wrasse, wonderful. And that wobbegong is still lying there where I left him back in 2018 😬. Is Leesa still running the center? She's a superwoman. Thanks! Ajay

Hello, New to OM 1. Has anyone used the cameras neutral density filter?Wondering if it works to cut ambiance light for shallow depth of field shots. .

The low tech solution would be to use so Sugru rubber putty to modify your knobs

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Does anyone know how to remove/swap a knob on the Z-330? It looks like there’s a set screw, but the hole goes all the way through. I’d like to change the power knob to anything else (hopefully swap with my Z-240 knob) so it’s a different shape. I’ve been backlighting macro subjects lately, and it’s impossible to keep track of which knob is which when the strobe is upside-down and backwards. I noticed the Backscatter strobes had a feature “the power and mode switches are different shapes!” and hoped I might be able to do that myself.

I just got this lens to use with the Dome Port #18414. I have the recommended extension #48457 (54.5mm). Something is off the lens at 14mm with about 1/4 inside the dome port opening causing serious vignetting not seen with other wide angles lens with this port. Coourious what extension to you use with this lens/dome port combo. FYI I have contacted Aquatica and they are are working on a solution but I figured I check here if any one else uses this lens with this housing Thanks!

Left the cables very long but easy to stow under the bands I have on my arms. Found something in my junk drawer to get them attached to the housing as well.

Hi Robert! A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Ahhh yes, I know that warm water vacation diver feeling all too well. I just sold my dry suit...... We hope you really enjoy the forum. Good to have you with us. Best wishes

@Tom Kline thanks for sharing. Attached is the approach I am taking. Some things that aren't obvious in the forum is that I am including non-english common names where I can if you have that selected. I am also going to include the region that was used for the match which is just the countries selected. I haven't decided if I will go more granular than country yet but it's possible.

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... and the news are good and bad. Like life just can't be simple... The good news is the sharpness at certain focal length is just awesome. Like miles ahead of a 360 Pro dome. All sample screenshots - the active type is yellow in thumbnails names. The bad news is the seam. I am hoping that there is some work going on with Insta360 and nauticam which would fix the issue but for now the seam is soooo visible and inaccurate. Basically unusable if the shot includes short - medium distance (and that's where sharpness excels the most). So it seems the main strength of this product are 180 shots for documentary reasons as long as these shots originate on one of two spheres. Just dont even think of having invisible seam for in between footage. For like wide angle shots without close subject or in another words infinity shots I would say the results are comparable from what I see. Mind you this is a poorly lit pool so we shall see what results are we going to get from reef shots with abundance of light but it could be similar. So no big difference. and the bad seam for subject 2m away you can judge yourselves... And lastly another ugly child is the lamp projection. You can see where my lamp was so do your own caculations as to where the housing was when it projected this So all in all not what I expected from Nauticam. I expected water contact optics - their solution is their own dry optics in a custom shape glass dome. I expected excellent invisible seam due to 190 claimed angle and the seam is quite visible and even at the distance. And for now I leave aside that ugly dome light projection... So even though the 180 quality is quite good the question which needs to be asked is why would they release such inferior product for a 360 degrees camera. I was expecting they would put their awsome water contact optics on it and not their own version of dry optics in a glass dome... This ugly child has quite a potential to tarnish otherwise great reputation so in their shoes I would probably take it off the market and come back with something that works rather than keep selling this inferior product further. What do you think?

I'm very much hoping to do a set for a set, but perhaps you'd sell?

Looks like your current gear isn't holding you back!

Still figuring out lengths and how I want to connect to the DSLR style connectors. Planning on working through that this afternoon.

Sigh. $400. Any lower than this, and I'll just donate it to the local aquarium.