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Yes, I thought about that as well but, I am feeling a bit limited with that setup both underwater and above. I looked at the fullframes since it seems to give me more playing room in most aspects, except the flexibility and that's what am looking to see if it's even possible to do with what I am thinking. Yes the 28-60 seems like a good alternative as well. Had not heard about the Zeiss, sounds promising but it's not looking like it's available in Sweden (?). Will look into it! Do you use the nauticam with that setup or would those lenses fit with the ikelite? Because the 28-60 does seem to fit a lot of criteria in that case. Shame about the 50mm it looked promising on paper. I may also just have to go with the 90/100 mm and a gopro for wide 😅

Thanks again! Am I understanding you correctly that both the 90mm and 50mm will do better at macro than what I currently have either way? Because that al least would be encouraging. As said I am aware that flexibility requires a lot of compromises but would be silly to spend a lot of money on housings and end up with worse pictures. I did not quite get what ypu meant with ikelite and UW, what do they do differently, do you mean wide wet lenses are not compatible with their falt ports? "Something that goes close is something like a wet wide lens which goes from about as wide as a 14mm lens through to about at 35mm lens which focuses up to glass and can fill the frame with subjects around 50-100mm in size for CFWA." what did you mean here, close like getting to a subject or close to what I want in terms of flexibility?

I read the the AF on the 90mm got much better with the newer cameras, was that the same with the 50mm or is it as bad as before. And is it worse than the af on the rx100 for example? Wouldn't the AI AF on the sony compensate?

Thank you for your very thorough reply with pictures I really appreciate it! I understand a bit about the wide angles and the fisheye. My reasoning fpr the 14mm sony is because I shoot mostly when I travel. My trips consist of 1/4 to 1/2 diving and the rest hiking, city streets and such. Thats why the 14mm is a good option for astro/landscape, that I could potentially also use while diving. So not the best at diving but the best at other stuff and a bit of flexibility in the future. The A7cii also as my primary option for the same reasons. Its about weight but also volume. I looked at the ikelite DLM because of the reduced volume and weight. Considering that i have to pack for other things tthan diving, often different climates on the same trip as well. I looked at tge port charts and that is why I was looking at the 50mm as well. I had not understood about the focus distance and front element of the 50mm that is a shame for the wet diopter I already own. How about the wide wet lens would that work? I am atm used to the flexibility of changing lenses underwater, like going on a manta dive without any mantas but finding a very cool nudi and being able to still have some good pictures has been great. Is a setup with ikelite DLM and wet lenses for macro and evetually wide possible? Any other lenses I may be missing for this purpose? This is very tough 😅

Hi! I am looking for help in recommendations an deciding how to go about upgrading my camera setup. I have tried reading forums, videos, asking chatgpt, reddit, etc. Just getting harder to decide on stuff. So I am wanting to upgrade my camera setup and want to plan for the underwater part of it. I love taking photos of a lot of different things when I travel and am now upgrading everything. So at the moment I have a Sony rx100v with a Fantasea housing, a ys-01strobe, a saga 10+ diopter and an ikelite w30 converter. I am planning to upgrade to a Sony a7cii. One of the most important things is portability and flexibility underwater, I would like to be able to shoot wide, but my favorite things to shoot are macro. I understand that many compromises have to be made. I am looking at the a7cii and looking at the ikelite DLM housing. Both because of portability. Above water looking at the sony 14mm 1,8 for landscape and astro, also looks like it will work with the ikelite if i ever want to do that. Maybe the 25-200 tamron as an all-rounder. I was thinking if it would be a good alternative to use the sony 50mm macro and use the wet lenses I already have for better macro and in case some more wide is wanted. Both of those lenses are relatively small and light, also I would not need to buy new wet lenses (nauticams wet lenses are very expensive). Is that a really stupid idea? Would the quality with that mean that I'm not even upgrading from the rx100? I understand that the best is a wide lens with a big dome and the 100mm macro sony for best quality (accepting that I would lose one or the other on the dives, but it's hard to do that) with nauticams bells and whistles but it is quite expensive and above all heavy for traveling. Am I asking for too much and should be more realistic or is it an okay idea? Thanks for all advice I can get! 

Hello, love photography above and below the surface. I'm not great so I will mostly take any help I can get 🙂