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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

Yes, it is.

And a little more of info. My HowShot 140 mm glass dome has arrived one week after buying. One week from Taiwan to Spain, not bad at all. I bought it with an extra neoprene cover, so the value for customs was 765 US$. They marked in the customs declaration as a gift, so I paid 10 euros in tariffs. Not a big deal when I was expecting about 200 euros in tariffs. That said, the dome port has nothing to envy Nauticam for, the quality looks fantastic and the lug can be unscrewed, so you can screw the Nauticam lug. Also the shade comes with small allen screws which you can remove and screw for another ones with a plastic grip in order to remove the shade easily. I can't wait to test in the water, but the weather is terrible right now.

More info, my dive budy, who has the same equipment than me but in a Nauticam housing has the same issues than me, so he has bought the Nauticam 140 mm glass dome. In this picture you can see the new Nauticam dome, the lug is machined directly on the body. So it's not an option for the Isotta and Sea&Sea users. My HowShot 140 glass dome port is already in customs Spain, the service from Divervison is really quick, as soon as is in my hands I'll put some pictures here.

Been there in december, your video is exactly as I remember. We did a night dive in Richelieu expecting to be the best dive of the trip and it actually was the worst, during the day Richelieu was quite clear despite the currents but during the nightdive the visibility dropped to 5 meters as much. I would go back to Richelieu, Koh Bohn and the Dome right now, very nice dive. But the Similans are not on the top of the best spots to dive in Asia in my opinion.

Well, I have bought it along with a 60 mm Isotta extension ring, which is what Isotta recommends with all its domes for the combination of the Canon 8-15 Fisheye, Kenko 1.4x and adaptor ring for EF lens to RF camera. Soon we will know it.

Bought

I've looking closer that FB page and the last post is from 2014 🙄 and Mr. Chen is their CEO. I also sent an email to Divervision and this is their answer "Howshot 140mm dome port has the same curvature with the one of Nauticam 140mm dome port. The material of the Howshot 140mm dome port is Zeiss glass and aluminium port base. Besides, Howshot 140mm dome port has inside coating the same as the one of Nauticam. " I feel like buying that dome...

🤣🤣 My chinese is a little bit rusty, I think i'll have to use Google translator. I feel like buying the dome, but I'm afraid it's not what I want and with the quality that I want. I sent an email to Divervision, let's see what do they say

Well, I just sent Divervision en email asking for it, I would prefer a contact with the manufacturer or any user rather than a shop in Taiwan, I' feeling kinda lab rat if I finally buy it.

Thank you, but I don´t find any HowShot website, the only information I can find is the products of the them who s Divervision is selling and Ocean-Photos in Spain, who were their dealer time ago but they don't import their products anymore, and they never had this 140mm dome, so they don't have any information about it.

Well, my dive partner has recently ordered a brand new 140 mm dome Nauticam port for his Nauticam housing, so we will know in a short time if it's true that the new ones comes comes with the lug machined. Yes, I want it to use with the Canon 8-15 Fisheye + Kenko 1.4x. @Walt Stearns is selling this dome in the forum along with a Sigma lens, and he talks fine about it, but I would like to have more information. Also I would buy his dome if it wasn't along with the lens

Absolutely stunning. I have no words. What a great job !!👏

In wintertime, when the mediterranean sea temperature drops to 13-14ºC is when the posidonia becomes greener and shorter. Not as spectacular as a coral reef but it also has its charm.

Yes, I know, If that 6" dome port was glass made I wold probably buy it, but it's plastic.

I was told that new Nauticam version doesn't have the lug rig screwed to the body but machined with it, so if i find an old version second hand would be great. And the Isotta dealer in Spain doesn't recommend this 4,5" dome, he says i still will find blurry corners, a bit less that with the 4" but still a little bit. So I'm looking for different options. And today I have found this Howshot 140 mm dome ports https://www.divervision.com/products/howshot-140mm-optical-fisheye-port-for-seaandsea-nx-s120-mount-ofp-140-s120?_pos=2&_sid=f7fbcc98d&_ss=r Which is glass, and looks like the Nauticam one but for pretty much half the price, but I don't have any reference of it. So basically at this moment I don't know what to do, the only thing I know is that I need a 6" dome port neither smaller nor bigger, I prefer glass, but If I don't find anyone which fits me in terms of money I'm open to plastic domes.

I guess is it's too big for CFWA

Hi all, I'm looking for a 140 mm glass dome port which I can use with my Isotta housing, and due to another post in this forum I have discover this HowShot dome ports which I didn't know. If anyone can give me information about the quality it would be great. After upgrading to the Canon R6 mkII camera in Isotta housing I found out that the corners in the pictures with the 4" dome port are blurry, so I have to purchase a 6" dome port. The options are Nauticam 140mm glass dome port, which are really expensive when I finally adapt it to my Isotta, I also can purchase Sea&Sea and Isotta 6" dome ports but this ones are plastic, and in these brands the glass domes are 6,5" which are to big for CFWA. So this HowShot looks great in size and price, but I don't know anything about them.

I just sent a DM