TimG

Hi! A warm welcome to Waterpixels. We really hope you like the site and find it useful. Great to have you with us. 

11 hours ago, EFLT said:

depends on how new the item is, but mostly you will get around 50-60% what msrp was, unless it's a highly desired item/housing/strobe.  then it's maybe 70-80%. 

Im doing something wrong. I’ve never got anywhere near 50-60%. 

I tend to nudge up Contrast and Clarity about 5 points. So not much. Dehaze isn’t on the Preset but maybe should be. I’ve also got -11 on vignetting. Saturation I seldom use. I do like a bit of Vibrance but it’s not on the Preset. 

I think youve now seen the thread about this. 
 

But tell us what you’re trying to sell and I’m sure you’ll get some suggestions. 

A bit like Chris, I don’t spend a lot of time. 
 

I use LR with a standard home made preset to adjust Contrast, Dehaze and a couple of other settings on Import. 

Then a relatively quick look through each image at the end of the day, select those that are worth work (maybe a dozen a dive), those to delete (the majority!), and those worth keeping for maybe work at a later date - another dozen. 
 

I then do some work on the chosen dozen to tweak levels, maybe play with Masks to enhance the subject, and maybe a bit of backscatter removal. Perhaps 3-4 mins a picture in total. 
 

And that’s pretty much done.  Following day a quick review, delete more images and probably keep a total of around 10 from a dive. If it’s a 3 dive day, I’ll probably keep 20-30 images in total. Often much less. 
 

I think the key is a quick triage and only select what is really good for a serious edit. Park or delete the rest. 

Yeah, none of us are sure what’s happening with the other site. Other than seemingly nothing. Slowly grinding down….

You're right, this is an eclectic and quite amazing community. Rocket scientist or brain surgeon, anyone? 

Hey humu9679! Welcome to Waterpixels and thanks for joining. We really hope you find it a good use of your time. The only reason to set it up was because of the uncertainty surrounding “the other forum”. We really did not want to risk losing this community. Good to have you with us. 

Thanks for this!

Advantages of the EVF. Would you like to explain that a bit more?

I think you could do quite a lot with the jpg. But if you have the RAW, so much the better 👍

Pretty cool! 

If you have the editing software, I'd suggest having a go at Clarity and Dehaze on the area of the images which are above the water. 

Hey Arie! Welcome. Good to have you with us. 

Yep, as Davide says. Fill the housing with soft paper, loo roll works well, and then leave it submerged for, say, an hour. Then check for leaks. The paper will be wet close to a leak. If still dry, submerge again for a longer period. 

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Does anyone by any chance have a spare Subal rear port cover (or two!) for the v4 ports?

Brilliant! What did it cost to print?

Great to have you with us, Ken. Lots of fans of ULCS here! 

Hi Jochen! Welcome! I’m sure you’ll see lots of familiar names. Good to have you with us. 

1 hour ago, Chris Ross said:

t's also of course only a potential problem if you fly with a port mounted to the housing.  For packing I often have the plastic cover on front rather than a port and I can do what I like as the housing won't hold a vacuum - o-ring or no o-ring.

Totally agree with Chris on this

If you fly there is a good chance that the pressure differential can cause problems when back on the ground getting, for example, the port off the housing. You do need to be careful.

I do fly with o-rings in place but because I have a vacuum sensor, it is easy to "bleed" the system if there is a problem with the valve allowing pressures to be equalised. 

I do remember having a problem some years back - pre-vacuum valve - where I had the devil's own job getting a port off a housing when I had flown with the port in place on the housing.

Still good to have you with us though! Welcome! 

Hi RVBldr

Yeah, never easy to start with.

A couple of thoughts: my understanding was that the Marleux had quite  a sophisticated focus light and aiming system? So was the snoot aiming light on  the right place but when you took the image, the strobe was not hitting where you thought?

Snoots do/can have a sweet spot for focussing the beam. Does the manual give an indication of this? 

The images look underexposed to me which is not unusual for starting off with a snoot. I found in my early snoot days that  this was sometimes the reason that I thought the snoot was not aimed right! Might be worth increasing the strobe output  a click or two.

If you've not seen it already, quite a useful article here:

https://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-techniques/article/underwater-snoot-photography/

18 minutes ago, makar0n said:

 

Hmm I could be up for another 4-6m, as barely have anything left now -  won't hurt to stock up 😉 

Noted!

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58 minutes ago, Scubakron said:

Great thread! Any replies from european suppliers?

Annoyingly nothing vaguely helpful. It left me wondering what Europe uses for fibre. 
 

Perhaps folks in the U.K./EU who might be interested in clubbing together for a bulk 613 order from the US could post here with how much they’d like? If it’s worthwhile  I’ll look into the possibilities.