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As an innovation leader like Retra, you naturally always take a higher risk with new product launches than with companies that copy existing technology and adapt it to their own requirements. Underwater photography is always a niche market. I can therefore well understand the decision. However, I hope that a battery compartment with 18650 or comparable, standardized high-capacity batteries will be considered for the next generation. I have the new Pro Max and have absolutely no complaints about battery life. The flash battery typically lasts as long as the battery in my camera, which actually only needs to be recharged after 2-3 days.

WACP-C,WACP-C! („Jehova, Jehova“)

The included focus bracketing in the last deploy of software for the A7 IV - I'm quite sure the same will be done for the A1 and A1 II

Beautiful pic! Stick to the WACP-C. No bubbles, sharp.

Rather not. I can't imagine that improvements in AF will help UW. What we need are good sensors and reliable AF - I doubt that anything beyon A7IV and RV will really help making better pics. Video might be something different....

My experience with the 16-50 was that it's neither fast nor sharp. On the other hand it's the perferred solution for many of the A6XXX users - maybe I'm too sceptical. Or those users have no comparison with better lenses. I have no idea about the white balance of the A6700 but the bacscatter-information sounds too negative. If you look at the MTF-Charts of the 16-50 https://www.digitalkamera.de/Zubehör-Test/Sony_E_16-50_mm_F3_5-5_6_OSS_PZ_II_SELP16502_im_Test/14437.aspx you can see that the edges are weak at wide angle. In summary going with the A7C II is surely not the worst option. null

With the WWL even f/7.1 might be enough.

I wasn't aware that you can't shoot with the 16-35 wide open - then also my recommendation would be to use the WWL

Surely the RV has much better AF and better sensor than R2. Have you been happy with IQ (edges?) and AF performance last time? In tricky conditions it’s more important to know how to deal with the cam, lens and focus than to be one f-stop better.

Even if it’s hard to believe: there is a life without viewfinder! hope that helps 😬

Ok, understood. A6700 is a really good one and also my GAS is already activated… Looking at the port charts the 10-20 with 180 dome could be an option. (Edit: with 6“ Acrylic Dome you don’t even need any adapter) But the 16-50 is such a crap… I had three of them over the years and each of them was really weak. The new version of the 16-50 doesn’t seem to have improved ( other than the new 10-20).

Regarding white balance - that was the original question: Should be exactly the same as in the newer FF-bodies.

In my opinion, regarding the size the A6700 is not as suitable as a full-frame camera of the same size as a model from the A7C series. However, this is not due to the body, but to the poor quality of the 16-50 standard lens of the APS-C series. This means that even the WWL or the WACP-C won't help if the lens is poor. As far as full-frame lenses are concerned, the 28-60 is an excellent partner on which at least half of Sony's success under water is based. If it's going to be a crop sensor (and the A6700 is incredibly good), I'd rather go with dome and Canon 9-15 with Metabones.

I am just returning from San Diego where we did a night dive with California Divers. Sea was a bit choppy, visibility poor so I knew I wouldn’t have much time to adjust camera and flash. I switched the Pro Max to TTL, and to my full surprise there was nothing to adjust. Especially the focus lights serving also as torches made the dive in that cold water fairly easy. I can’t tell whether this works with other brands as well but with that experience I‘ll stick with the Retras.

So Beautiful!!

First day. We booked a private snorkeling trip - everybody was aware that the typical spots aren‘t private at all. But light was beautiful. The we went looking for whales, distance between us and other boats about half a mile. Suddenly he shouted - get ready, NOW! 3 Minutes that made the trip worth every penny. We just laid flat on the water, the mother and her calf approached us curious - and left, when another boat approached.

Cameraman is Roger Munns: https://www.roger-munns.com/netflix-our-oceans-underwater-cameraman/ He's also the one who did the AppleTV underwater screensaver. I met him this year on Dharavandhoo where he was filming the Mantas at Hanifaru Bay. He's a nice guy! I'll go for Netflix just because of this series. Hopefully it is worth the price.

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