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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

Hello,If you are interested in selling separately, I'm interested in the dome port.

Hello, I'm looking to by a 6" dome port, Isotta, Sea&Sea or Nauticam. IF it's Nauticam must have the bayonet screwed to its body in order to change it for a Sea&Sea one. If you have one of these domes with no scratches I'm willing to buy it for a reasonable price.

Well, perhaps the big difference with brands like Retra is that behind it there is a development made by photographs like Alex Mustard who knows what you need underwater. Also I guess that the fact that these strobes have a like slightly cold its because of its price. When you want to make a powerful "inexpensive" strobe you have to save money in some areas, and probably they have save the money in these areas. But, for its price, it is worth it if they don't get broken like the Sea&Sea D1, D2 and D2j. I had all of them, the most expensive strobes I ever had, they last 2 years at most.

I have something new about this strobes. Yesterday in my last dive one of my fiber cables got disconnected from the strobe, my strobe started flashing continuously. My first though was that the strobe was broken, so When I realized that was the cable disconnected, I reconnected it and the strobe stopped flashing, after that the strobe worked normally. It was really sunny and we were in only -2 meters, so my impression is that the slave cell is very sensitive, which is good in order to use thin fiber cables and even to use as a separated from the camera strobe with no need of addition more cables or cells. I'll have to check it in my next dive.

Seafrogs aluminium or plastic ?

Very good information, if we can't trust a brand new port...Anyway, at the time that I was about to buy a Seafrogs aluminum housing I contacted directly the manufacturer and after a misunderstanding I though I was going to be scammed. Finally they told me that the aluminium section and the plastic section are totally different, with different engineers based in different factories and in different cities. I was told they share the name but nothing else.

I've been to the red sea 3 times, two of them from Sharm el Sheikh and another one from Hurghada. This is everything north Red Sea, if you expect big stuff is not the place, Although I dove with dolphins for more than one hour in Abu Nuhas reef, very good spot for wrecks. And I dove with a big hammerhead in gordon reef, that's all north. If you are lucky you'll dive alone in the scattered spots, but in famous spots like Abu Nuhas will be a bit crowded, and if you go to the very famous Thistlegorm you'll dive probably with more than 200 divers at the same time, it's very crowded, but it's worth it. Be careful with the boat you choose, a few of them say they are luxury and charge like luxury when they are actually not. I was in the Agressor II in October 2024, they sell luxury, but it's not. Not a bad boat for a normal price in Egypt north, 1300 € more or less for a cruise saturday to saturday plus flights, plus tips, plus beers..., but nothing else, even they are very friendly and well equipped for photographers, big tables for the cameras and air whips to dry up the housing after rinsing.

https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/2870-new-full-aluminum-seafrogs-housings/#comments I made myself this question a few months ago, I crossed emails with the factory, received a quotation, seek unboxings and test in youtube...in fact I found a guy in youtube with a video of one year using the housing and he was really happy with it. I did not finally buy the housing. i wanted to upgrade my camera to a Canon R6 mk ii. and Aquatica doesn't make that housing, I have a lot of Aquatica stuff and Then Chris Ross showed me that buying an Isotta housing with a conversion ring was probably the best option for me. Isotta is italian so I can service it and resolve any issue within days. I can keep using my domes, ports and extension rings. Alongside the Seafrogs port chart is very short and doesn't show one of the most common underwater lenses, and almost the one I use the more, the Canon 8-15 fisheye. So I had to buy brand new domes, ports and extension rings not knowing if they were the right ones. So the final expense was going to be almost the same. I finally bought the Isotta housing and I'm so happy with the decision, it arrived on time for my next trip, and anything I need from Isotta I get it in a short time. That said, to me Seafrogs looks like a Nauticam housing in all senses. And they remind me the Nauticam company politics when they started. They started with polycarbonate prices for aluminium premium quality housings, once they got a lot of market they started to increase the prices until nowadays where they are even more expensive than the "traditional" brands.

Hola Maria, me alegro de que te guten. Thank's for comment ;-)

This is why I don't understand how can a DM or instructor make a DSD in spots like Richelieu. And worst, the two "divers" doing the DSD with hat with ears, brand new equipment, white socks above the knees instead of wet suit and apnea pink finns which obviously they didn't move one single time to help de divemaster.

The guides were all the time "worried" about that big boat with 80 divers, so when they saw the spot was going to be so crowded they changed the diving spot. I don't know if that's the reason or it is as it was planned. We were aware during some breefings that mantas can be spotted but never happened, only once in shark finn reef a pair of divers of the group said that they spotted a manta but so far

When I see this kind of things is when I realize that the designers aren't underwater photographers.

The worst I saw there was a very big boat, with 80 divers capacity, plenty of chinese. When our guides saw that boat arriving to the same spot we where they changed the plan for the day because find them underwater was very disgusting, too crowded. I don't know what's the solution, but if I can give my thoughts I would avoid launching boats and diving cruises with more than 20 divers. We were diving with the Mantha Queen fleet aboard the Mantha Queen VI. To be honest I would not repeat with that boat, but I would do repeat with Mantha Queen. We were 9 friends and paid the whole boat for us, the boat is for 14 divers but even this the boat was too small, the chambers are small, it is not prepared for cameras as long there are no tables in the wet zone, and there are no plugs enough for the batteries. The bed is horribly hard and little more than a wooden board. But the Meals were amazing, the Crew was kind and nice, the captain never said no to anything and the dive guides, two spaniards and and english guy, know the spots really well. We finished the trip really happy. I let you here our diving itinerary