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    Hey Fred!

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

    You've come to the right place to look at upgrading. We offer expert advice! And we love to help members empty their bank accounts 😝

    Best wishes

    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.

    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.

    37 minutes ago, CaolIla said:

    Thanks, but if the problem is in the script on the side of Waterpixels... I can't do anything.

    Only try to localize the problem... the ball is on the side of the administrators of the site.

    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.

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    2 hours ago, CCRphoto said:

    To me the first question became mirror or mirorless, followed by then choosing FF, APS-C or M43.

    I was initially leaning towards an OM-1 MkII and thus M43, however I'm heading to the GoDiving show in Sydney in a couple of weeks to take a good look at the Nauticam Z5ii housing with a view to going FF. The main reason for this is after reading some posts on here about noise and how pixel size and density have a fair bit to do with noise and then doing some research - it seems to me that the best pixel to sensor size ratio is a fullframe 24.5 megapixel sensor. I could be miles wrong though.

    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)

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    I've used both, Mike.

    Like so many things with underwater photography, what you can achieve in that environment and what the two cameras might be capable of, are two different things.

    I used a D800 (FF) for about 4 years and a D500 (APS-C) for 9 years. Other than having more pixels to crop, I honestly could not see the difference for the types of images I use: selling to stock agencies, on my computer, sending to friends, the occasional A2 print....

    For me, and I'm sure others will argue, the disadvantage of FF is the size of the gear, the extra difficulty of housing a rectilinear with a huge port - and the cost of the lenses. I know wet lenses can make a difference for wide-angle and might be easier to "house".

    For that it's worth, I would not go back to FF. I'm actually moving down again to M43!

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    Hmm, this is odd.

    On my Mac or on a PC running Windows 11 Enterprise, I get the usual Reply box which produces the standard option, in the grey box at the bottom of the Reply, to "Drag files to attach, or choose files..."

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    However Carollla is getting a box with no attach files option (see below).

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    The Waterpixels system isn't showing any errors. Anyone else come across this?

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