Michael

I also made some - which work fine for me and my way: There are two styles to handle the camera: handing it into a boat or carrying it a more or less longer way to the shore. Also it's not easy to attach boltsnaps to the seacam strobe arms. So i made some smaller modifications: Between the clamps a made a kind of hooks (seacam sells them but you can built them by your own with a pair of pliers and some 1.5 mm stainless stell wire) where a small lanyard can be attachted. This is good as handle but wouldn't recommend to use this to hand it in a boat. For that i have a pretty long lanyard to attach to the housing. It's as long that it reaches up to the small lanyard which fixes the strobearms (i also fix the strobe with a bungee to the arm). Then it is really easy to handle the camera even if the boat group is a bit harsh with the handling. During the dive i put both lanyards on an D-ring (i dive a wing, so they go in the waist D-Ring). The second one i use is when i have to walk quite a few meters to the shore (like in the Netherlands when walking over a dyke to get into the water). It's sometimes pretty exhausting carrying the camera and the dryuit with weights over the dyke. So i made a smaller lanyard which can be attached to the right housing and the other end will be clipped to the right shoulder D-ring. So the weight of the camera goes onto the jacket and it is pretty easy to walk even a few hundred meters with it.

I'm also in for 12 m.

Nice written! Also it helps if the model has a colourful suit instead of the usual black (there are special "photosuits" from Mares and others to wear over the wetsuit) and most of the time it's nicer to have the Model not facing frontal but more "angled" (and with a bright torch) or back in the image as silhouette. It also helps to show the model the image after a few attempts- a good model will know what to do better. Works only if the currents are not to strong though. Work the image - an also necessary sign is: repeat...

i just saw that Macar0n also fancies 4-6 m. But that is not enough to get a bulk order yet. Too bad that i-fibreoptics charge 150$ for shipping... (plus tax it doesn't make sense...). Maybe too many people don't want to save money on DIY-cables und prefer to buy them from the shelf. I really don't know why we don't find them in Europe. I've been searching every few weeks but with no luck.

Hi Tim, unfortunately i gave away too much to my friends, so after i cut some to short i need some more... If it's going to happen that we get a bulk order together, you can count me in for another 12 m. Or does somebody have a few meters of the 613 left? I would need 5 m as soon as i can get my hands on...

Danke 🙂 so you need really low power on the strobe then i guess?

Great images! Can you tell me about the hairy frogfish: is it with coloured torch and snoot on the Retra oder just torches or just strobes?

Hi, i just got my hands on an unused pair of Z330s Type 1 for a "ok" price. I wonder if it is possible to change to front to the newer fly eye lens? Did anybody do it and does anybody know where i can get the spare parts? Cheers, Michael

Hey Gerard! Nice to see you switched over, too 🙂

For a long time i needed single vision lenses as i had not only myopia but also a axial curvature of the eyes (i hope this is the correct english term). I let my optician glue "my" glasses in the mask. Getting slowly older also my near vision also got worse and with the axial curvature i went back and got some special varifocal / multifocal lenses glued in a new mask. If you have a low volume / kind of freediving mask this can be a problem as the glued in glasses can get too short to the eye that your eyelashes have contact with evera eye closing (made me crazy...), but with a regular diving mask the "made to measure" glasses are the best, especially if your curvature is not correct. There are also variofocal/multifocal contact lenses available, but i would try to use a bigger mask and special multifocal lenses which also correct your distance vision (which might be off as well). It surely will help your vision, you might check with a good optician.

Hey there, glad to switch from Wetpixel to Waterpixels! I really hope this forum will fill with many members and useful content 🙂 Michael from Germany 🙂