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Thats what i understand - only if i wanna have a backup system (80D in Aquatica) in case of failure during projects (happen in the past and 50D save the game).

A question come now as i own the 8-15 and use on R7 (before on 40D, 50D, 70D, 80D). What i will gain in the long term? Better IQ? one more mm ?

Lovely lens!! I have the former and now am questioned to move to that. 7mm focal length indeed might become tricky but let see who will react faster for that (i can guess Nauticam)! But Olympus had a similar lens (Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 7-14mm 1:2.8 PRO) - yet not fisheye and solutions where around from Nauticam.

tomorrow the news! https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/canon-big-reveal-rf-14mm-f-1-4l-vcm-radical-7-14mm-fisheye-zoom-and-new-powershot-g7-x-iii-coming-feb-4/

Thats great! When the full version will be released?

Seems to be a brilliant approach for 3rd party housing and yes, i wanna see a more space-based housing to have extra battery as the WFH-GP1.

If make a "wrap up" not much is what i can gain in a full combo. I might gain a combo of 130 degrees FOV and a short lens that will allow me to make short of portrait-style for some fish and seascapes as "close-ups" and not versatile macro. Have to rethink the investment ....

Hi mates, For 13 years i use the combo 8-15 with 100m dome (Aquatica) and now 140mm on Nauticam (complete switch to Nauticam with Canon R7 as Aquatica support in Europe is !$#@$). However, i wanna more flex during science missions - mean to have wide and macro at the same time. Thus am thinking to move to WWL II and CMC on the handy 18-45 Canon lens. Has anybody experience on such switch?

Yes and i have a new, not yet in the water, X4 - January 2025. And the housing is not compatible with X5 ... Normal, you will say. The question is "HOW much better is X5 from X4 for use in VR content creation for use in education (ocean literacy, dry dives for persons that cannot dive, etc.).

@Davide DB adding external screen etc in such a system, it will turn into an "expensive" if you see the price of the camera per se. Remote control of them via a surface buoy and connection with laptop, for your river case, or for shallow water applications, could be solution. for me, and will happen if i will grand the funding for BRUVS in seagrass habitats, for which i don't need such externalities, the battery extension is game changer. T-Housing offer a similar solution as well, but here we have a housing for 4 camera models.

I can see lots of potentials at this system. 1) You can use 4 models of cameras with no limitations. 2) The extra battery can allow me to install it in BRUVs and other systems for long term timelaps data collection or for long data collection for underwater photogrammetry (coral reef monitoring, seagrass restoration sites monitoring, etc). 3) The M16 ports can allow me to add extra control or sensors With ~ 2k i can build a versatile system with lots of scientific applications.

Happy New Year folks !! Wishes for MORE TIME to use our existing equipment and less time to web-search for better equipment !!

Is that still available?

i have not yet test it but seems that will be the ONLY one plugin in PS that i will buy. In regards to video, as video = photos in dense sequence, i cannot see problem to be implemented apart from the time that will need to process that. Why not asking the developer for such a great tool?

An interesting filter appears > https://www.goaskerin.com/backscatterxterminator/ Seems that in an automated way, inspired by astrophotography (see the history below), backscatter problems disappear in the postprocessing HISTORY OF BSXT Backscatter is a notorious problem for underwater photographers, and the idea for BSXT came about when Bruce Warner, a colleague of Erin Quigley, recognized an unexpected parallel between backscatter in underwater images and star fields in astrophotography. In both cases, tiny bright spots—whether particles in the water or stars in the sky—stand out against a darker background, and this shared visual issue sparked a great idea. Erin and Bruce approached the astrophotography AI software genius Russell Croman of RC Astro, and the rest is history! RC Astro was founded in Austin, Texas, by Russell Croman to create innovative solutions for astronomical image processing. Russell’s award-winning work has appeared in online and print publications including NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (16 photos) and National Geographic. He won the Advanced Imaging Conference’s Hubble Award in 2010 for significant and sustained contributions to the astrophotography community, and in 2024 he won the Photographic Society of America’s Progress Award, an honor he shares with Jacques Cousteau who won the award in 1977. Russell’s astrophotography tools have revolutionized the field of astrophotography, and are used world-wide by professionals and amateurs alike. Has anybody use it yet? I see that @Alex_Mustard in FB post has already test it.