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Thanks! No, I don't expect any sharks at all. Northern route, yes.

Hi! In late 2023 I went to Dauin in the Philippines to photograph critters. Unfortunately I got pneumonia and only did a few dives - here's a picture from one of them. The main part of the image is some kind of camouflage crab, legs to the right. Encircled in red is... well, is it a shrimp? We had Klas Malmberg, pretty big in Sweden's uw photo world, with us on the trip and it was he who pointed out that there's a shrimp. I forget the name. I should trust him, he knows his stuff. I just. What do you say, is that really an animal? I mean, I can sort of convince me that it is. But. I just.

Thanks for the replies! Ok you have me convinced, I'll bring the fisheye too. I'm fairly certain - no, I think - I will most often not want the fisheye look on the wrecks. But I'll try it, I might like it! The 24-70 would likely be for topside, should I bring it. I could switch it out for my 24-50 if I want to save on weight. (I think the 24-70 might have a place for sharks I don't expect to come right up to me, but that's another trip, don't expect any sharks here) As for weight allowances my bet is on not getting my hand luggage weighed. It mostly works out. When it doesn't, and it turns out my meek bag weighs 17 kg, it can become kind of sweaty. Has happaned once.

So, finally I figured out why things seemed so quiet at wetpixels and found my way here. I'll start by re-posting a question I had over there, well past the big exodus I believe. Slightly edited it goes like this: In a week I'll go on a wrecks-and-reefs liveaboard in the Red Sea. Wrecks will be my main attraction and I have of course started considering what lens(-es) to bring. I think I have a fairly good idea of what might be suitable but I'm open to thoughts that haven't occurred to me. I'm using a Nikon Z7 in a Sea&Sea housing. Notable lenses I own and have ports for: Nikon 14-30/4 with S&S correction lens, and 230 mm zen dome Nikon 8-15 fisheye (have smaller dome for this if I want to do CFWA, have no zoom gear so it will be at 15 mm) Nikon 24-70/4 Nikon 60 mm macro (F-mount) Nikon 105 mm macro (Z-mount) It's likely I'll want to bring few lenses, for space and weight reasons. For a long time I was considering bringing only the 14-30 and be done with it, but now I figure maybe I'll throw in the fisheye too. Though wrecks may be what the 14-30 is mainly for? The 24-70 fits in the same dome and extension ring as the 14-30 but I don't see when I would use that on this trip. Possibly topside. Macro - well that would be for some of the reef dives I suppose. But as stated, the wrecks are what I'm going for. The macros will stay home unless I'm convinced otherwise. So in case it's not clear, the question is: would you advise something else, and in that case, why?

Thank you for a warm welcome!

Here you are! Hi! Being an intermittent poster at wetpixel I had completely missed the turbulence there. Yowza! But I'm glad you seem to be here - wetpixel was the only forum I'd found so far where people understand both diving and technical aspects of photography. I wasn't really a regular at wetpixel but nevertheless I picked the same username and profile pic as I had (have) there.