JohnD

No longer seeking the N85 macro port 65

Do you use a viewfinder or back-of-camera lcd screen?

Purchased a port from @Grantmac and it was as described and delivered promptly. Would do business with him again. 👍

Having now used this for a while (but have not tested getting it wet) I have found it very useful. I have mostly been on little boats and bangkas so have not used it on a boat yet, but really handy for topping off battery between dives or over lunch without having to open housing and swap batteries.

Like Tim said, other than dawn, dusk and night dives, I never needed a focus light with D500 and 60mm macro, but with 105mm on the D500 or Z8, a focus light is useful far more often, as I recently found out. There is a wide range of sizes, features and power available and ulcs has some lightweight mounts that fit almost anything. Not what I use, but I just threw this 120g thing together together to illustrate how small one can go: Orcatorch D560 700 lumen 3.5" light with 14500 battery on a ULCS ball mount. To paraphrase a credit card commercial, What's in your housing cold shoe?

Just to wrap this up, I only took macro stuff and except for just a little bit on APO island, did not miss the wide angle. Unlikely that I would have ever used it. Going back there I would again not take anything but macro stuff. But the MFO-3 was very useful.

Thanks. I believe I have sourced one from another member here.

Out of curiosity I looked at the dome on the Divervision page. It appears to me that the length of the port is greater than the Nauticam and The length of the dome may be such that you don't need an extension ring, as is required for the same port from Nauticam, potentially resulting in even greater savings. I could certainly be wrong about that.

Considering the cost of the Nauticam dome, I would probably go that route myself.

How is your Chinese? https://www.facebook.com/groups/cghdivephoto/ I am not sure Howshot is even a real "brand" as we in the West would think of it, as opposed to a product line by some unidentified manufacturer in China. I have never seen a Howshot port chart. I have purchased from Divervision from time to time over a number of years and never had a problem. For all I know, Howshot domes are the exact same glass domes used by Nauticam or other well-known companies. They claim to be BK7 optical glass but I have no idea where they are made.... https://www.vyoptics.com/portfolio/china-optical-glass-hemispherical-dome-port-bk7-glass-dome-lens/ https://www.saidaglasses.com/glass-bk7/ https://www.chinax.com/optical-glasslenses/pz7645a13-optically-clear-bk7-glass-optical-dome-for-underwater-camera-housings.html

Divervision should be able to answer your questions and typically respond fairly quickly.

I should have just reached out to reefnet to begin with. They sent a photo of the handle

It was really a question of letting her use the subsee. She actually has a very good underwater magnifying glass from the Netherlands that she uses a lot but it is quite large and I thought she might enjoy having the subsee as a smaller alternative for some dives, and the idea of a handle that worked with a 67mm diopter seemed like a fairly simple addition. But thank you for the suggestion!

That is an interesting idea, although the cost is much higher than reefnet's "handle," whatever that might be. I sent reefnet a request for info and might see what Dave can fabricate.

I have seen pictures of that one before On the reefnet website they list a SS-H "handle" and a SS-L "lanyard mount" and I would think your pictures shows the lanyard, but perhaps not. Actually, I just found an ad from a store in the netherlands and describing that as a lanyard mount: