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Well, I finally fhe Chris Ross advice and i have bought the Isotta housing with the ring to fit all my Aquatica Ports, The price is more or less the same than buying the Seafrog housing with new ports, extension rings, zoom gears..But i have the manufacturer in Europe with european warranty, that means that in case of failure my housing can be ready in days. And still more important, I'll have the new camera and housing ready for my next trip to Similan Islands in November. But if I had to start from 0, I would probably buy that Seafrogs.

I know it's been a long time since the last advice, but I have another one. I have flight this way with Qatar, Emirates, Vueling and Binter in several trips.Never had an issue since I started to do it. I mount my Aquatica for SLR housing with the 4" dome port, I put inside the camera and the 8-15 fisheye lens. I mount an arm with two clams to use as a handle and an strap to hang it from my shoulder. That is my hand bag 😁 In the cabin troley, cables, macro port, strobes, laptop, chargers, etc. Diving equipment with the checked baggage in a rigid old samsonite suitcase with no stickers. My dive partner does the same but he adds the strobes with no arms mounted in the housing hanging from the shoulders 😂

I guess I'm going to follow your advice, I didn't have in mind to buy an Isotta housing with an adapter for my ports. Fortunately I know the dealer in Spain and I have his phone number. I have asked a for a Quatation for all that I need and it looks like it's going to be pretty much the same than buying the Seafrogs with its all new gears and ports. Another pro is that being an italian housing in case of need for the service it's going to be a lot quicker than in China. And still better, I go for a Trip to Similan islands at the end of November, so it will arrive on time for the trip for sure. And about the zoom gears, etc...no worries, I have done my own ones for Aquatica with the 3d printer and i'm pretty sure I can do the same with the Isotta ones.

I still don't know, I was waiting to receive the housing, if I finally buy it the plan is to call Saga in Spain, to make and adapter. The port chart is really short and with a lot of combinations of lens missing.

Well, today it's been a busy day as long as there are two different Seafrogs sites, what has been a bit confusing and for a few hours I thought i was about to be scammed. Fortunately it's not the case. This site https://seafrogs.com.hk/ is the Hong Kong dealer and they do not sell the aluminium housing and they don't know the sales agents in China Mainland which manufacture and sells the Aluminium housings, this is the right website for purchasing aluminium housings www.seafrogs.com. This switched all my alarms on and I didn't keep on going dealing with until was clear I was dealing with the right people. That said I am also sticked to Aquatica Housings as long as I have dome ports, macro ports, extension rings, zoom gears...a lot of money in accesories, but I want to upgrade to the Canon R6 mk II and Aquatica does not manufacture it. They do the R5 mkii, the price for the housing is ok, but the camera on itself is very expensive and I should have to also change my computer to move such big files. And I am on a budget, so, I still do not have the final price for all the rig because I have been adding and deleting things. But the housing, 1 glass 8" dome port, 1 macro port, 1 zoom ring for the 8-15 lens, 2 extension rings, 1 extension ring with focus gear, 2 fiber optic cables, 1 flash trigger, 3 extra 1" balls...calculated with import duties to Spain...less than 4000 euros. If you put this everything in Nauticam p.ex would be about 7-8.000 euros. Things that i don't like, their port chart is very short and it doesn't include the more used combination in wide angle FF, 8-15 fisheye plus Kenko 1.4x They don't have a 4" dome port, instead they have 6" glass dome port which i don't like, for me it's in the middle of nowhere. They also have a 6" plastic dome port but i am waiting for the answer to see if it's compatible with the aluminum housing, if so, i'll get it, it's only about 220 euros. As long as they don't manufacture the 4" dome port, and this the dome port that I like the most, I will manufacture it on myself, I already have done it for my Aquatica rig.

This is what amazes me, watching at these aluminium housings looks like a Nauticam in terms of ergonomics. They have send me the manual of the housing in pdf and there is access to the whole camera... separated lever for focus, side dial for the diaphragm, side dial for the speed, another thumb dial for the iso...everything looks in his place and with easy access to the buttons with thumbs. To be honest I am really about to buy it, but it's a big investment, I have to buy also the camera. I asked them what happens if i'm not agree with the quality once it's in my hands. I'm waiting for the answer...

Hi Maria, I think you haven't understand me, I knew since long time ago about the Seafrogs plastic housing which i really don't like since it's for more than 15 years that I'm using alluminium housings, such Sea@Sea as Aquatica, so I'm very familiar with high quality housings and before this I had a Fantasea plastic housing for SLR, I don't like Fantasea or 10bar, the same way I don't like Ikelite. What is relevant right now about Seafrogs is that they have open a new line of housings in full aluminium alloy which looks like really high quality housing like Nauticam, Aquatica, Marelux, etc but half the price or even less.

I have recently seen in Facebook housings from Seafrogs made of full aluminium alloy. I'm about upgrade my equipment to a Canon R6 mk ii and watching the pictures and videos it's an amazing quality and ergonomy, equiparable to Nauticam in all senses. But I can't see any independent review, I would like to have one in my hands or a trustworthy opinion before buying, because although it's half the price (or less) than a Nauticam housing and accesories it's a big investment and I don't want to get wrong. They are not even in their website, but I have already received a quotation trough whatsapp Honestly, this reminds me when Nauticam popped up in the market with plastic housing prices for high quality aluminum housings. But I'm really hot about buying one of this Seaforgs.

I dive every single week when at home and 1 diving trip per year, so my process is, when at home, It doesn´t matter if I have dive one or four times in the weekend, during sunday afternoon I import all the pictures to LR, I organize it by year, month, day and something special on the pictures. I make a selection between the pictures and usually keep 2 or 3 pictures, not more. I only keep the pictures that I really like, obviously all of them with technical fails are deleted, everything is tagged by species, place, etc. After that I process it and keep the jpeg in my computer. I upload every file to my NAS since LR every month. During a dive trip is almost the same, but I make the selection every night and make a copy of everything in an external hard disc. When I arrive home everything goes to my NAS from LR.

As long as I consider that the prices for the dome ports are out of control and I have a lot of ideas I have been doing my own dome ports. So I have developed a system in which I can manufacture 4" dome ports for almost all brands of housings with (and this is very important for me) with interchangable by the user plastic fronts in seconds. So with only one body you can put different domes (sometimes you need the dome to be more or less curve, or yo can convert it into a flat port for macro). The plastic is not specially treated for photography but I can't see any difference on the results with a Canon 5D mKII and a Canon 8-15 lens. I've been diving with it for a couple of years, in deep dives, trips to the red sea, Indonesia, Canarian Islands. The system works, its easy to use and and easy to produce. My question is, do you think it would be a good business ? would you buy it ?

It's been quite a long time since I don't get in the forum. Anyway, I'm currently running a pair of Subtronic 160 pro fusion, my dive buddy is using a pair of plain 160 pro. The only difference between them is that the fusion includes a powerfull led light to make video, but it makes the strobe quite bigger. If i had to buy again I would buy the plain 160 pro. When I do video is with a gopro and it's enough to lit it up with the pair of chinese torches that I use to carry. I already post a while ago a post about these strobes. They are reliable, powerfull and small enough to travel with them and make wide angle pictures against the sun. The only point that I don't like is the batteries, they are dedicated and quite a bit expensive, I learned to repair it on myself and I even manufacture my ones with 18650 cells which I can charge individually. If you have to buy the batteries there are two options, or you buy an arm with the battery on the inside, which I don't like, in case of failing you lose for a while the arm and the battery. Or you can buy the normal battery which you connect to the strobe with an S4 connection and fit to the strobe with the neopren cover. I only can speak right about the service, I have to send mines twice and they repaired it properly. As long as the service is located in Germany the shipping from Europe is cheap and I don't have to wait months for the strobes to be repaired. So I would buy again. I attached two pictures so you can see the battery in the neopren cover and the battery that i manufactured.

Thanks for the advice, but I think I'll keep going to Asia. I don't like surprises when it's about money and I don't like to play the mouse and cat game with the customs.

I'm also considering a trip to Baja California, not this year but in 2026. I'm follwing this thread from the begining. What about the airports coming from Europe going to Baja right now ?. I wouldn't like to get scammed at the airport.

Hi Davide, I missed this thread. Very good one !!

I've just shared the file, as soon as it gets verified I'll share the link. I'm also going to share a few more items that I'm totally sure that fit and work flawlesly. Here you are the link.. https://makerworld.com/es/models/864862

Hello, your cables look amazing, I didn't know that fiber so probably I'll buy a few meters to test it. I don't have any account to share my designs in 3D but I'm going to open one. I would like to share my very simple conectors and also my zoom gears for aquatica. In the picture you can see the connector and the pof fiber, they fit perfectly with retra strobes, subtronic strobes and I would say taht also with Nauticam housings, one of my dive partners use them with Nauticam but I guess he must fit them first in an adapter. Me, with aquatica housing and other partner with Subal housing are using led triggers where the led is fitted directly to the housing by the outside as shown in the picture. For the connectors to make them fit and don't release I designed two slots in order to put two 0.5mm thick orings. They really work great.

I had several issues with thin cables which I forgot once I started to use thicker POF cables. I buy them by meters in Aliexpress (3 mm core) and I print my own connectors in petg.

Not about Belize but yes about Agressor. I have been in a dive trip in the red sea on the Agressor Red Sea II 3 weeks ago, I was told it was a luxyry boat, they charge as a luxury boat. It's not, it's a normal boat with the normal services in the red sea, the staff made the difference. They were fantastic, but the boat on itself, old and normal.

Well, it's your opinion. I have 2 of them, and almost 4 of my partners have it also. We all also use it in night dives (medium power, full power is too much for me in a night dive) the ones who run video use it to lit the scene and the ones who takes pictures like me, use it as a focus light. I don't see any reason to buy it from Amazon for double the price. And I don't need to read any opinion in Amazon. I have my own experience over the years with this torch. Trust me, for 40-50 euros you won't find anything better. I have no idea the real power they give, but for sure more than the 800 euros Sola torches. I would probably buy this lux meter just for couriosity, even I don't trust a lot in a 40 euros lux meter 😉

Well, I usually would agree you, but in this case, at least with the torches that I have linked, not . I have one of that torches for about long 4 years and still working fine. I know it doesn't give 20.000 lumen, the color temperature it's not bad, but everytining always can improve, and the batteries are 4x18650, an standar nowadays. I had torches that I paid more than 400 euros than lasted just two years. My dive buddy had two Sola, he paid 800 euros each some years ago. Those ones lasted 2 years, after that time they flooded and the factory simply said that were out of warranty.

Me and my friends are using these torches for years, they definitevely do the job, obviously they don't give the 20.000 lumen announced, but for the price...We mostly use it as a focus torch, for night dives and some of my friends which do video with a gopro use two of them to lit the scene. https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005002229906611.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.294c64aa2cEV1q&algo_pvid=a55182d1-8cad-4e0a-aec4-9edb91bbf71d&algo_exp_id=a55182d1-8cad-4e0a-aec4-9edb91bbf71d-0&pdp_npi=4%40dis!EUR!43.49!43.49!!!329.72!329.72!%40211b65de17291032517964201e3bac!12000019441952825!sea!ES!2040584551!X&curPageLogUid=WMAxGCVtkZyG&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A

Amazing, that encounters are the reason for I started diving.

We recently arrived from the Red Sea. We made the north route, reefs and wrecks. Special thanks to @hedonist222his speed has allowed that the housing for replace my old one arrived on time for the trip. I just wanted to show you some pictures of the beautiful trip we made.

My spares for a trip... -O rings -Fiber Optic cables -Trigger -Batteries for the strobes, for the trigger and for the vaccum sensor -Velcro -Tie wraps -tape -An extra strobe -Allen keys And this is not an spare, but is the most important, my Leatherman Charge Tool. In all my trips, for diving and with my other hobby, motorbikes, I always carry the Leatherman, and in every single trip I have used it.

Thank you so much to @hedonist222 I recently purchase from him a housing. He has been, keen, nice and quick, I absolutely recommend him as a seller.