TimG

Hey Tomo Great to have you with us. A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Best wishes Tim

Is there anything you can’t do with your D850 that you think you might be able to do with, say, a Nikon Z? I doubt that focussing or underwater image quality will be significantly better with mirrorless. I’ve been a long-time D500 user (and like you D100, 200, 300 and 800) and hankered about going mirrorless. But the only real advantage I could think of was in-viewfinder review. A very nice feature, especially for macro, but at huge cost: new body, new housing. As Dave suggests, you can probably pick up a used D850 housing in great condition for an excellent price. Two have been advertised recently on our Marketplace.

Enjoy!!!!

Chris makes an excellent point on “I want one”. Given the costs of underwater photo gear, Buyer’s Remorse is awful thing! If you feel you are really missing out and would be disappointed by not having FF and, as Chris says, you have the means and appreciate the downsides, then go for it! Dont be faced with Buyer’s Remorse. Just don’t think it’ll necessarily give you significantly better images. Composition will do that - and that comes at no cost.

Hi Alexey! A warm welcome to Waterpixels - especially coming from Ukraine. Great to have you with us. We hope lys really enjoy the forum. Best wishes Tim

Sooooo tempting, Zeus to give you all sorts of wise advice about a HUGE investment in FF gear......

Bricks and mortar camera shops seem to have disappeared all over the place. I’ve lived in various major cities in the last few years and have seen them close the shutters and disappear. I guess online sales are largely to blame - and I have to own up to my share of guilt.

Sorry, Michi, I can’t really help you there. I doubt though that the trigger would be outpaced by the ability of the strobes to recharge.

Problem is, for the moment at least, we can’t find a problem and, so far, no-one else has reported this as an issue. Rich has been checking various logs and nothing has turned up so far. Dave suggested creating a hotspot on a mobile phone and then accessing Waterpixels from your PC via the hotspot. This might eliminate a possible router issue. Did you try that? There’s no lack of effort (or willingness) from the Waterpixel’s team to try and solve this. But The Man is stumped at the moment.

Kudos!

It goes back to the discussion on the use of your images. If it for pleasure viewing, sharing with friends, artistic creation, some sales, then I would argue that for the vast majority of u/w photographers, FF is unnecessarily expensive and creates problems for travelling in terms of weight and volume of gear. But if you feel that not having FF is somehow missing out and just disappointing, then fair enough. But in terms of real, viewable quality, naah. You'd have to be a serious pixel peeper or have very demanding clients to worry about noise, pixel size and density. On a modern camera with modern lenses the water turbidity creates more problems than those three ever will! The series camera bodies and lenses produced now are capable of producing amazing imagery irrespective almost of the sensor size. I came to the conclusion that underwater the FF thing is a marketing trick which harnesses the old 35mm standard. Topside, why not have FF? (Unless you decide the much smaller M43 is handier/travel friendly - and I can sure see the argument for that)

As long as you speak Mandarin.... 😆