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I personally will not buy again a Sea&Sea strobe until their reliability and service become trustworthy. I have had the YS120 which were great, after them I had YS D1, YS D2 and YS D2 j, all of them failed with no reason, some of them while underwater, some of them checking the rig on land with a low power. And the response for Sea&Sea was slow and non satisfactory. For the moment I can't trust in them. I have bought th AOI UIS P1 strobes, about 850 euros each. I have test them in a 35 dives in 9 days trip. They were great, nor a single fail, and with only 1 battery set I have run all the trip with not a single shot missing. They are not perfect, I don't like the light temperature, I don't like the power knob and I don't like the way to switch them on. But they works in HSS with your Sony and with the AOI trigger, and lastly also with the Turtle trigger. With 150 watts is enough for wide angle, even the sync speed of your camera is only 1/160

Thank you all for the answers, you've been really helpfully. I think I'm going to bay a Surface Pro. I'm ashamed but I didn't know that those kind of pc existed. The size is not that big comparing with a tablet and I don't need to learn Lightroom mobile. I am currently paying The LR photographic plan, which includes 20 GB cloud. I think is not enough for everything I have to do if I work with a tablet. Anyway my plan was to buy a keyboard and a pencil for the tablet, so the size is going to be pretty much the same.

I'm a bit tired of traveling with my laptop and I would like to downsize a little bit, so I was thinking in using a tablet, but I don´t know how LR works with it. I don't need to edit with IA, just basic adjustments. My ideal is when on a dive trip, after the last dive and with a beer in my hands I download the pictures to the laptop well organized and with keywords to find everything, sometimes I order another beer and i start doing basic adjustments to a picture, not more. And when finally at home I move the files from my laptop to the NAS, everything trough LR in order to don't lose the files. I would like to do the same but with a Tablet. I don't know if this is possible and what kind of tablet should I buy, I don't want to spend a lot of money. Also the tablet must be Android.

I'm currently using an Isotta housing for my Canon R6 mkII, I'm really happy with it. I find that the ergonomics are great, and in the inside is far more simple that the Nauticam for example. But in terms of size, comparing directly with the same camera housing from Nauticam which my dive buddy owns, I don´t find any difference. The fact of it's an european brand for me is a plus, the service can be very quick. And you can use directly with no conversion rings the Sea&Sea ports, and if you have Nauticam ports you can unscrew the lug and fit a Sea&Sea lug. So you can easily use Isotta, Sea&Sea and Nauticam ports, furthermore they also manufacture conversion rings for other brands like Aquatica. Which only protrude 0.5 cm from the housing, so it's not a big deal for the lens setting. Comparing with the Aquatica Canon 5D mkII and the Sea&Sea Canon 50D which I also have I really prefer the Isotta. And, their basic flash trigger since a year ago or so is directly compatible with HSS which I don't use but is always a plus.

Well, as we say in Spain "mi gozo en un pozo". For me, buying this lens only to produce circular images doesn't make any sense. I guess Canon is not going to do it, so to use in underwater photography we need a third party manufacturer to produce a multiplier. I also have noticed that this lens is quiet long, so at the day is the same size that the 8-15 with the RF adaptor ring.

Well, in fact I already use the Kenko 2.0x teleconverter many times, combined with a dome flatter than usual. It's a quiet good combination to take "macro-wide angle" shots.

This "hole" for the filter should be the "salvation" in order to use the Canon Canon Rf 1.4x which has a part that protrudes a lot, I guess this protruding part fits perfectly inside that new lens. Now for whom that uses 8-15+ Kenko 1.4x + adapter for EF to RF like me it's yet to see if it is worth it to change.

I know palau is expensive, but I expected it could be a bit cheaper by land, and along with I'm not fancy a liveaboard this year I thought it was the right time to go. Everyone i have contacted I asked for the same. I want a package for 8 divers, accomodation and diving the more possible during 9-10 days in november-december. It's difficult to say the exact days due to right now there isn't flights available yet.

I got the NX mounting, I guess this dome is not made in the DX mounting. You can mount NX Sea&Sea mounting in B120 Isotta housings. But you can't mount Isotta on Sea&Sea hosings. And furthermore, you can use a lot of N120 Nauticam ports by changing its screwed lug in Isotta housings and Sea&Sea housings.

I actually appreciate your tips, I'm learning a lot about what I want in this trip and what I don't. Now i only need that the operators answer any email or whatsapp, for the moment I only had one answer from a dive center with an offer for what I want to do, and it's really expensive. I have sent almost 10 different mails since the day I opened this trip and only one answer. Or they have a lot of work and are not interested in an 8 people group or they don't care abut possible new costumers.

Well, my buddy's new 160 pro was bought in november, it arrived just in time for the trip. He never said anything about that he's going to stop making strobes, and the strobe is brand new, so 3 years warranty. But obviously is a brand which is near to close ot to be sold. Anyway, my intention is not send my strobes never else, next time I'll put it on a box and I'll use only the AOI ones. I'm so happy with them. I also was about to buy that Photocore but I was told there are so many issues with that so I I bought the AOI. Sea&Sea, never again, I have had D1, D2, D2J, all of them are bullshit. It's going to be difficoult to trust them again. And Inon, for the moment are in a lower league.

Trust me , I actually have a lot of experience both with the Subtronic batteries and the Idiving batteries, I have open all of them, the Idiving ones are a bit easier to open but you need tools. I have also bought cables to Mr Tick to fix my batteries and manufacture the ones above. Once you have opened it if you need to change the cells you will need a welder by points, a new niquel strap and tin. It's not an option to open the batteries in the middle of a diving cruise. When I go on a trip I go with 4 batteries and until I made my own batteries I always had issues with them, they always brake up in the middle of the trip, so I finally start to change the cells inside before the trip and now I go with Idving and Subtronic batteries plus my ones. Mr Wolfgang Tick is still doing strobes, my diving buddy have just bought a brand new 160 pro. And Mr. Tick is still making revision of the strobes, my two 160 pro fusion have gone to him once per year since 5 years ago, revisions, failings, new failings after revisions...it's true that he always makes me a fair price but it's also true that I'm tired. Mr. Tick says the strobes must be checked by him every 6 years. I had to make my last trip to Thailand in december with two AOI strobes that I bought brand new a few weeks before the trip because one of my Subtronic strobes had a failure just after a revision, I paid 160 euros each strobe for that revision, plus shipping, when I received it, weeks before the trip one of the strobes didn't work anymore so I had to send it back, that means it wasn't to arrive on time. So, I sent two strobes months before my trip to do it with no issues, one of them comes failing and I have to buy new strobes to do the trip. Those AOI strobes work flawlessly with batteries that I can buy in Amazon for 20 euros each. I'm not going to buy Subtronic again.

Better in english, so anyone can understand. I have 4 Idiving batteries, are exactly the same than the Subtronic ones but smaller, nothing else. Subtronic sells batteries that works also as an arm (which I don't like) and they also have batteries with no balls, like the idiving ones, in order to put it in the side of the strobe in the neoprene protector. The difference between the Subtronic and the Idiving is only the size, Idiving is smaller and slightly cheaper. But both share the same issues. They need the Subtronic dedicated charger, when the cells become older you have to buy brand new batteries, 2 18650 good quality battery cells are 40 euros worth as much, the whole battery is 200 euros worth if Idiving and 250 euros if Subtronic. My batteries are absolutely different focused. My goal is manufacture a housing for batteries that I can change the cells in seconds, so when the cells are old I swap them by new ones for a few euros, I can use normal chargers and I double the number of cells, so I can make 4 dives with no changing battery. But I recognize that if I had to do again I would make a design for only two cells.

Wow!!!!, this is exactly the information I was looking for. I'm going to start to send emails and organize the trip if my dive buddies agree to go. Thank you so much. I'm pretty sure i will have to ask you for my doubts.

Hello all, me and my group are planing the 2026 diving trip, and for the moment we are thinking in going to Palau, but we don't want a dive cruise, we prefer from a resort. Can anyone point me in a good resort or diving center with good rates ? Or any tip is more than welcome. Thank you very much