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I think there are areas where the size of the sensor or the size of the lens cannot be replaced. I don't expect underwater photography to be taken over by smartphones. On land, it has become established that I shoot wide-angle up to 50mm with the iPhone and 50-400 (travel and medium telephoto) or 200-600 (birds in flight) or macro (90mm) with the A7 IV and at this point I am also sure that no replacement is possible with a mobile.

I enjoyed! Great!

Just my 2ct: 4.: MacBook Air is very comparable in size and weight to iPad 13" with case. If you like using the MBA - not wrong. 3.: Size matters 2.: Don't think so. rather use USB-C 1.: No idea. I use an ipad pro 12,9" 3.Gen. (presented 2018) with LR for ipad and never had issues with lack of speed.

For the less obsessive in terms of losing the original RAW files: I only use Lightroom for the ipad without the desktop version. It's very, very inexpensive. The only limit I see is the number of images that are synchronized with the cloud. I don't need additional external data storage, but I do videos only occasionally. My workflow is different from what is said before, but I think it's also a good variant: I connect the camera to the iPad via USB-C (important: use a cable with a high data rate), which saves me having to insert and remove the memory cards. I import all the images directly into Lightroom, edit them there (I've even found the live histograms in the meantime) and export the images I want to keep to Apple's own Photos app. I only keep images in Lightroom if I think I want to edit them further or print them later. This saves duplicate data storage, and the cloud synchronization via Apple also works perfectly. I never actually delete the memory card in the camera while I'm on travel, I only do that when I get home. With the A7 IV I always have mirrored storage of the RAWs on both cards. I think this redundancy is sufficient.

AFAIK the WACP pulls the potential area of sharp focus close to the front element in a way, that above the surface there’s no way of focusing to infinity. In your room you should be able to focus on things that are not more than 5-7m away, but not further.

And all the mods who work here every day! 🙌

...the pic is not perfect - fish should face the diver, not swim away... but the fins are in good position

One additional comment: Longfins are the high shoes below the surface - they make beautiful legs, but it is necessary to have them in a good position.

I am surprised that the TE feels so attacked. I think we've certainly had sharp personal attacks here in the forum, but I don't recognize any such attacks in this thread. Hopefully we can get back to the topic at hand, which I think is very interesting. I do 2/3 freediving and 1/3 scuba. I use a coiled lanyard as described by @Dave_Hicks, which alternatively acts as a hand strap or as an attachment to the BCD. Even though the instructors on the boat and fellow divers are always concerned, the camera has never been in danger of being lost. Important side effect: My camera is negatively buoyant (no float arms for the flash). I use it as part of my own buoyancy control. If I really had to come up faster when freediving, I would rather drop the camera and have half a kilo more buoyancy. When swimming fast (manta rays, whale sharks, humpback whales...) I hold the camera with one hand under my belly, where it has the least drag in the water.

Hi Scubagirl, When we saw it they did some painting on the building, so in fact it could be quite new there. It is at the main road to the harbour (facing south on the left side) quite opposite the airport. There's a scooter rental (ugly scooters!) in the same building. As far as I remeber they were painting some korean or chinese signs on the wall. You won't miss it. If you have additional information on it, let me know!

Great! Too cold for me and looks really scary…

Hi Wolfgang, thanks a lot, that’s really helpful. For the usual dives I am happy with the zoom range of the WACP-C, and if I am looking for the small things, the 90mm is in the pocket. Just for show: WACP-C is also capable for some sort of macro

Inside the Sony-ecosystem: Do you think there are advantages over the 28-60 + WWL1b or WACP-C? Just below the surface, not on land - there I personally use the 50-400, WA only from time to time.

I had a similar experience: Travelling from Malé to Fuvamulah they asked me to put my backpack (14kg, looks quite similar to that of @ChrisH, but is cheap from Rollei) on the scale. „Too heavy“ - „Look, my camera gear. I can take it out, put it together and take it in my hand“ - „Okay, camera….“ and after very short discussion with his colleague it was no problem.

Hi @devinphotographer, My comfortable dynamic apnoe time is around 50-60sec. in this time I should be able to go down, unfold flash arm, frame the scene, take the picture, have a short look at the histograms, adjust flash intensity, take a second picture and go up again. I found this workflow comfortable up to 12m, if necessary up to 15m. Before going down I usually have the flash arm folded in a way that the flash itself is as close to the housing as possible.

Hi Ben, thanks for that input! I wasn‘t aware of Fiji, but the last experiences with divers from China and Japan weren‘t not so good - often unrespectful to nature and sometimes even unable to swim…. In contrary Palau should be added to my bucket list. It doesn‘t have to be tigers - we had one dive in Grand Bahama when the mood of the big mamas was somehow heated. You have to look out very careful and if they come too close, push them away.

Hi Marcus, Same for us - We found out that "Richardson" from Divepoint aka Sharkexpedition is more on the careful than experimental side with the tigers. Regarding Internet: If you want to be independent from hotel-WLAN then Ooreddu is a good choice. You can buy a SIM at the airport or - as we did - use an app like Airalo where you can buy electronic SIM-cards for reasonable prices (30GB for 44$)

With Sony underwater, the price difference between APS-C and full-frame for the same image quality is relatively small. For this reason, either the overall cheaper version with Seafrogs / Salted Line or then full-frame is usually taken. A used A7 IV costs less than a new A6700, and if you use Nauticam, the costs for the housing and underwater lens are comparable. I would think twice about using the A6700 (which is an excellent camera!!) for underwater use. And: With the 28-60 + WACP-C Sony has a perfect underwater-combination. The 16-50 is weak at best...

That's the most likely explanation. I was really surprised to find this shrine! 2 years ago it wasn't there. More surprisingly - There's no shop for camera equipment on the island.

The more interesting question could be how to transport the rig in the plane or on the boat... 😁

And here the pics showing the island:

Here some pictures from the dives, second pic shows the situation - my wife is the one with the white fins and approaching the position from where you can watch the sharks

After Oceanramsay had visited Dharavandoo and Fuvamulah, there had been a huge trend in freediving. Some of the diving schools still offer freediving with tigers. But with the given situation in Fuvamulah there’s not much of a sense. „Fish from above“ is only in few exceptions a good way to take pictures.

Hi Wolfgang, uuuuh, „Lesen hilft“ my fault. You are right. I am still puzzled what could have happened. My last theory: there has been a very small oil drop on the inside that never moved so far. Now it did.