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!
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! 
