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  2. thank you both for the extra information! I did not know that and it adds food for thought. I'll have to have more of a read about the video @Chris Ross I'm still leaning to the new R7 later in the year, but always good to have more options (sort of!)
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  4. On the why I expect it's to reduce the number of different housings they make, they have been trimming their port charts from discontinued lenses and dropping various adapters and ports as well. Possibly offering 3 different port systems (4 if you count the compacts) might be taking its toll. You could also look to other vendors, Isotta is about $2k cheaper for the housing for example.
  5. You could also carve a whole float collar out of such material if you have the dimensions, just do the volume calculations if you know the foam density. It would need a steady hand with a hot wire cutter to make it neat though. Mozaik still list the buoyancy collar for WWL-1 for $92CAD and they ship out of Vancouver. You could also check them for the Stix collar. they seem to have a coupon code for 12% off - no tariffs. If you used the Nauticam buoyancy collar and assuming you are shooting stills not video you could take that weight into account with float arms
  6. Most mirrorless FF cameras have some version of this as an option, you still however have to pay $$ extra for the housing and camera and need to check the fine print on how it does video in such a situation. If it's playing intermittently could be an issue with the RF-EF adapter or some sort of contact issue.
  7. So I don't currently have the float collar. Looking at specs the lens seems to be about 600g negative without it which would be a rather significant print. The Stix 12 section collar should do it with some customizing, unfortunately expensive to get in Canada with the current tariff situation .
  8. Perhaps, but first you have to find one and keep it alive. T here's no substituent for a proper AF fisheye IMO and a fisheye zoom is just so versatile, which is why people are mucking around with using Sony 2x on on an adapted Canon 8-15. With the Canon 8-15 being discontinued it means that even if it's replaced by an RF version it only helps CANON RF users and won't be adaptable to Sony. Nikon still seems to be making their 8-15 for now though.
  9. I have been looking around at various foam options to make a float for my rig, a lot of places have the foam used for insulation under house slabs which is specified as high density and low water absorption and densities in the range of 30-33kg/m3. This means it has a buoyancy of about 970 kg/m3 or 0.97 gr/cm3. According to the page for the original WWL-1 float collar the lens is 160 gr negative UW with the collar. so it would need about 160/0.97 = 165 cm3 of 30kg/m3 foam. This is a cube about 5.5 cm or 2.1" on a side. If you can source some of this foam you could carve out a piece in the shape of an arc matched to the OD of float collar about 20cm long x 4cm wide and 2 cm thick and glue/screw it to the float collar you already have. With a bit of searching you could probably find a piece of the foam at an art supply place - it's used for sculpture, you would look for XPS foam with a density of 30-35 kg/m3.
  10. I don't trim down by that much, but I'll throw all the obviously out of focus stuff, missed subject, accidental triggers etc and keep what's sharp and half-way well composed as Raw files and keep them in site specific folders. I'll also throw duplicates if I have lots of near identical shots. Process the selects to tiffs and jpegs to master folders . Eventually they make their way to my website where they are subject or trip organized. Nothing particularly scientific, but it keeps the storage requirements reasonable. My images library probably takes up about 2.5-3 TB in various folders. I have 4TB SSD storage drive and a conventional 4TB backup in an enclosure. It enough to keep 30+ years of images. I lost some scanned images quite a few years back during the process of upgrading PCs as far as I can tell, but the last 25-30 years worth of images are still there. My thoughts are that is the storage requirements are reasonable and it's organised enough to find an image with just a few minutes searching this is enough.
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  12. As far as I know just turn it on before closing the housing. I've seen people report the battery lasts a very long time. That's a very well used looking R5 though, my old 1DMkIV looks in way better nick.
  13. After decades of digital photography it's "time to clean house". How do you decide what to keep? Not a professional, don't bother posting to Getty or Shutterstock anymore, might enter some photocontest for the heck of it. But mainly we go on a trip and I do a "trip video" 10-20mins for us. Then I will cut it down to 3-7mins for the website and Youtube. Lastly take maybe the best 10-15 images (out of hundreds if not thousands taken on a trip) and upload them to the Stills section of our website. I think I need to get back to "is this wall worthy".... Your process????
  14. Very cool, Dave! You are definitely the master of printing that which others don’t make.
  15. The port floats are big jobs, about 12 hours prints and use 1/3 of a KG spool. But once tested out, they are pretty easy to reproduce. So far, I just have designs for the 3 macro port configs I listed. I don't have a WWL-1 to measure.
  16. Lovely if true. About damn time.
  17. If @Dave_Hicks can make you one, I’d be inclined to go there. I just use the 1st version foam collar, and Stix floats on my arms (I have really skinny arms). Another thing that looks interesting is Marelux’s adjustable float bag: MareluxFlexibuoyFlexibuoy cheers. Craig
  18. Aloha and welcome!
  19. I've been experimenting with 3D printed buoyancy solutions for a while now. I've created a few iterations of a form fitting collar that snuggly fit over a 105mm macro port and add about 250 to 350 grams of buoyancy. It's a lot cleaner looking than a foam belt too. My first versions relied on painting with epoxy resin to seal it, but I've since been able to make versions without added sealants that stay watertight to 100feet over multiple dives. I want to keep iterating to reduce the dry weight and wall thickness a bit more before sharing. I've made prototypes for the Port60, Port87, and Port60+20mm extension. These have been especially useful to counter the added front weighting of a Dual Flip adapter with a couple of diopters attached. It should be very possible to design one of these for the WWL-1. I have a WWL-C, but it includes a built-in aluminum buoyancy collar.
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  21. Yes I've read through that and it's definitely interesting. I'm likely to focus on a cheap 3D printed solution which will use a bungee and bolt snap. Getting my whole rig neutral (which I've started a thread on) will be a significant part of the equation.
  22. Sony and Nikon shooters have the best fisheye made, RS 13mm. There is no need to invent the wheel again? This is where the rumored Laowa lens comes in.
  23. I would definitely be interested to see what the Nauticam port chart indicates for this when they (hopefully) update it. I already have the 180mm dome and would likely buy this lens if I "only" had to buy an extension and zoom ring. - brett
  24. Sony should upgrade the 50mm macro first including IF and faster AF mechanism.
  25. It's a little off-topic, but not too much. Many updated versions of lenses are coming out (and honestly, some were not needed). But the fisheye lens is still a missing piece. Also, the old Canon 8-15 mm lens is no longer made. In the good old days of M43 cameras, both Panasonic and Olympus quickly add their fisheye lenses to their catalogs. IIRC, Olympus even had a PRO version. There must be a curse because Panasonic has never made a fisheye lens for its L-mount full frame cameras. It's a conspiracy! 😆
  26. The Nauticam collar has the lens still rather negative. I'm considering using either the BTS Flat Port collar (no buoyancy specs) or Stixs 12 segment collar. I'd like to get the lens as close to perfectly neutral as possible.
  27. We have an old thread on scootering and taking images. You could open a new thread or just continue here:
  28. My experience of the rumor [sic] sites down the years is that they rarely have any insight. In general they speculate for clicks, rather than having any proper info. I have seen them wildly wrong in their predictions of items I have already shot. However, I am inclined to believe this one. I think an ultimate-quality macro from Sony is overdue. I had hoped they may also choose a focal length that would differentiate it from their existing offerings (100 vs 90 is not really different) - but I also see how 100mm is probably the sensible choice for them when competing with Canon and Nikon.
  29. I should have mentioned that I do a fair amount of DPV assisted dives and I'll be looking at mounting options. Less to shoot while scooting and more to get the camera off my body.

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