TimG

Great to have you with us, Samir. A warm welcome to Waterpixels.

Pedro, have you tried asking Aquatica?

Epoxy?

Could the hunting problem just be the camera’s inability to cope with the turbidity and lack of contrast? Have you tried a focussing light to help? Perhaps with a red filter to avoid scaring your subjects?

If it's of any help, I've been using the UWT board for about 8 years and have found it excellent. Batteries (2x CR 2032) last easily through a 2-week dive trip and probably way beyond that. I've switched from Inons to Retras and still use the same board. The UWT has been reliable and (touch wood) problem free. If in the likely event that you do run into problems, Mr UWT, Pavel, is a member on Waterpixels and is very helpful. I've never used the TRT but, again, Mr TRT is a Waterpixeler and very helpful.

Hey Alex Great to have you with us. A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Lots of advice to be had here for sure. Ask away!

Ahhhh, what the admins wouldn’t do for a Retra……

Why not? What have you got to lose? As you say, could be a win-win for you and a buyer. AND Oskar will be happy too. Can life get any better?

So sell them through the Classifieds, Hugues, and order new ones. You know you want to…. 😱

Sorry, Gary. I didn’t know about the fixed port. Tricky. Yeah, it has to be a wet lens then.

If I read this right, Gary, you want to be able to stand further back from your subject? So getting the same distance from your subject as oyu did with the 105mm If that's the case, you could perhaps add a 1.4 or 2.0 teleconverter (TC)? this would increase the magnification of your 18-45mm lens by either 1.4x or 2x. You'd lose a bit of sharpness but arguably not that much and a slight loss of light. You could increase the ISO a little to compensate or use a slightly slower shutter speed or open the aperture. So there are options. You'd also need an extension ring to house the width of the TC - 20mm for, say, the Kenko 1.4 TC which is popular underwater. Generally a diopter allows closer focussing rather than necessarily magnfication

Thanks Oskar Can you just confirm the fit details for the bumpers and the neoprene jackets? Are they the same size as for the Pro Max 1?

That's always the case no matter how many or what lenses you have. It goes to the heart of what I often bang on about. You have to decide before you dive what you want to photograph and go equipped for that. That, to me, is where it does wrong with a mid-zoom: neither here nor there. It's not just the equipment but the mindset too. Go set up for macro and you hunt for macro subjects and their frames. Fisheye and you're hunting wide-angle, looking for sunballs etc; mid-zoom - errrr, heaven knows - bit of this, bit of that, a lot of nothing......

If you're looking for a bit more "reach" with the fisheye, does the Sigma 15mm work with a Kenko 1.4TC? Hmmmm, not sure but others will have view. I think it does. That'd be a cheap way of increasing your options. You'd only need the TC and a 20mm extension.

Hey dimi I use a fisheye for almost everything wide-angle. I had the Signa 15mm for my D800 and loved it. No, I wouldn’t go with the 20-70. If you want a topside zoom - which is a no-brainer - I’d go with the 28-200. Even better a 24-200 if you can. I got the Nikkor 24-200 topside and love it. It’d be perfect I’d think for topside Galapagos. Useless underwater!