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I was just wondering if anyone has had a GH7 in the water yet?

Back when I was still a youngster and was working as a mechanic at a gas station, we would often use Coke to clean up corroded batteries and battery trays in cars. The phosphoric acid in them was good for that. You do have to thoroughly clean all the sugar out afterwards, though. A good flushing with clean water was usually sufficient.

@bghazzal wrote "for video nailing the 10-seconds-minimum of focused, stable footage required for moving pictures often requires a different type of control over the camera." Amen to that, getting the subject in focus is one thing, but keeping it in focus long enough to be useful is the hard part. Something that we all, probably, struggle with.

Interesting topic @Davide DB, thanks for starting it. I shoot with a GH5, and try to use autofocus as much as possible, to be able to track small moving critters. However, it sometimes won't focus, or focuses on the wrong things, which gets very frustrating. I switch between MF and both autofocus modes, depending on what I am doing at the time, but it doesn't always work well, and I have missed some really good clips because of that. I am very interested in seeing what the PDAF autofocus on the GH7 will do, but I am waiting until someone gets one in the water and sees what it will do, especially with white balance, before I spend the money on a new body and new housing.

I was finally able to post my request, and so far have two replies saying that it is a "parrotfish of some kind, but too young to be sure which one"

Sorry, no. I tried to join the FB group mentioned above, but was having FB problems. I will have to try again. Thanks for the reminder.

Cool, thanks.

I had not heard of Loupedeck before, but unfortunately, it appears that they don't support the video software that I prefer (Pinnacle Studio). Oh well, they look interesting though.

FWIW, I use my video lights on low setting as my lights for night dives, but I add a couple of extra older, retired lights as backups, just in case I run into a problem.

Well, I found a used GH6 housing and was pretty much set to pre-order a GH7 and buy the GH6 housing now. However, I had a talk with the sales rep (who would have been the one selling both of those items), and he suggested that I wait until they can get some time underwater with a GH7. His reasoning is that one of the main problems with the GH6 that caused it to be such a flop is that Panasonic messed up something in the white balance, especially for video, which is all that I shoot, and he does not know if that has been corrected with the GH7. That was enough to convince me to wait a bit for now. I have a trip to the Blue Heron Bridge lined up for September, so I will need to have a camera for that trip. Anyway, just wanted to update you with that, and see if anyone else has heard something similar?

@Cromagnon I am also a fan of Kroil, it is good stuff. I haven't tried it on anything optical yet, though.

How about this: https://www.bluewaterphotostore.com/aquatica-panasonic-gh6-housing Unfortunately, I have several ports for my current Nauticam housing, that I am probably going to have to stay with Nauticam.

Agreed, but at least new ones are available, if pricey, and won't need to be designed and manufactured.

Being able to use a GH6 housing will mean that we will be able to get housings right away. I am severely tempted, and was wondering about housings, this answers the questions, thanks. Now, I need to figure out if I can afford one.

Wow, that might hurt my wallet, too.

I dove Aqaba about 10 years ago, and second the trips to Petra, the Dead Sea and Wadi Rum. We rented a car, and did a loop to take in all three of those sites in one day. It was a long day, but well worth it. If you have the time, take more than one day for them, though. I just prefer being underwater...

Thanks, I do know Mickey and have a signed copy of his book next to my desk. Good idea to reach out to him. Will do, thanks.

Does this help anyone, it is about the best side view that I could find.

OK, let me see if I can find a good frame, that's a good thought. Thanks. Thanks, that's interesting.

Wonderful, thanks both of you ( @bghazzal and @Chris Ross ) Since I only shoot video, that's all that I have.

Well, I posted this to Youtube - unfortunately, it appears that they reduced the resolution, but perhaps it is still visible enough to ID the fish. Thanks for the help:

Oh, OK. Sorry, I did not realize that you were not allowing videos now. I don't have any good way to store it externally, though.

Can anyone see this short video? When I try to view it, I don't see anything. Is there something that I have done wrong? It was saved in the *.mp4 format

I suspect that this is a juvenile of something, but I am not sure what. With the surge, this is about the best that I could do. It was in about 15 feet of water, at CoCoView Resort in Roatan, Honduras. Thanks for any suggestions that you can offer.

If the OP is in the US, McMaster-carr has a great selection of o-rings. You just need to determine the correct size. https://www.mcmaster.com/products/o-rings/