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Do you have a link to the exact product? The rubber on my Nauticam pump broke and I'm looking for a spare.

Welcome fellow Hong Kong-er!

STL please 😍

$80 USD for a 3D printed plastic part is quite expensive, although I do agree the design is quite clever.

The playback should be showing the embedded jpeg, so even when the highlights are blown out in the preview, they can sometimes be saved in the RAW file. If the jpg is coming out dark, maybe you have a picture profile turned on somewhere?

I agree, the atmosphere was so much better than the city.

Dove 2 days at Menjangan and 2 days at the Pemuteran area in late July/early August with Abyss Ocean World. Menjangan had great dives with large walls of healthy coral. However, larger animals/fish were quite uncommon. We only saw 2 turtles and 3 sharks at a distance over 6 dives, and one or two tuna. Pemuteran macro was alright. I heard from another diver that the nudibranch and frogfish concentration was much denser in the Tulamben area. Shaun the sheep nudis were plentiful. We managed to find one mimic octopus and one pygmy seahorse over 8 dives. The mandarin fish at Pemuteran are easy to find, but getting a good shot, especially with the mating was too difficult for me.

I designed a simple reduction ring for the Backscatter HF-1. I only had glossy black PLA+ around, and there's some internal reflections, so it doesn't work well with the video lights, but in theory it should still reduce backscatter. Please let me know if anyone has any issues. hf-1 reduction ring.stl

I guess the tolerance is really tight. The NL2153HP has a diameter of 21.5mm +/- 0.3mm, while the NL2160HP has a diameter of 22mm +/- 0.3mm. I might have gotten two NL2160HP's on the higher end of the spectrum which would be more than 2mm in difference from the two of the smallest NL2153HPs.

The NL2160HP doesn't work for me. It's slightly too big and it's too tight a fit if you put it in the flash. The strobe wouldn't turn on and I had to pry the batteries back out. Of course YMMV.

On this episode of the underwater photography show, Alex Mustard mentions using Nikon 5T diopter to allow his macro lens to focus closer. I was wondering what the advantages of using the Nikon 5T were versus using a wet lens diopter like the SMC. As a relative newbie, it feels that a wet lens diopter would give the same result with the flexibility of being able to take it off underwater if needed. There's also the limitation of getting an extension ring to fit the diopter, which Alex mentioned he had to get custom made. Does anyone have experience with the Nikon 5T and other filter based diopters?