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    I’ve just been in Sri Lanka and now understand why the EU has mandated that plastic bottle tops must be attached so they cannot be separated from the bottle. The amount of bottle tops I collected on a beach was depressing. Plastic everywhere. 

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    I've just moved from the Nikon Z6 to a Nikon Z6III and have an L-bracket for sale (it won't fit the Z6III)

     

    It's produced by 3-Legged Thing, made of aluminium, incredibly light-weight, ARCA-Swiss mounts, tough as old boots, looks brand new (that's high quality aluminium for you) and fits the Z6/Z7 perfectly allowing access to all the various ports. 

     

    Looking for €60/£55 and happy to include shipping in the UK or EU

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    On 8/22/2024 at 7:27 PM, TimG said:

    I'm just seeing if I can get this into the EU hand-carried. If not, I'll come back to you.

     

    Just as an update:

     

    I've contacted my mate in the US to see if she could hand-carry the cable when we meet for the Red Sea trip. She can't let me know for the moment but we agreed she'd confirm one way or another by mid-Sept.

     

    I've checked i-fibreoptics and they do have the 613 cable in stock and say they can ship with 24-48 hours of ordering. 

     

    So far I have EU/UK requests from:

     

    @Joerg Malke 4m to Germany

    @makar0n 4-6m to Belgium

    @Michael 12m to Germany

    @CaolIla 10m to France

     

    If I have missed anyone, please yell!

     

    I'm leaving @stiebs and @humu9679 to order for themselves as including them in a bulk order doesn't make much sense. (But if you DO want including, just say!

     

    If folks don't want to wait to see if my mate can help out as delivery-girl, @fruehaufsteher2 has also kindly offered to act as postbox. Costs would be subject to German import duties/taxes and higher shipping fees. 

     

    A couple of folks have said they'd like cable depending on the price. As I hope folks can understand, that's a very difficult thing to pin down. The cable costs $7.50 a metre plus shipping. If my mate in the US can deliver to me in the Red Sea, then mail costs from me to EU "clients" will be minimal. A couple of Euros. So maybe around $9-$10 a metre in total.

     

    But if it needs to be mailed from the US to the EU and then packaged and shipped onwards, then costs may double with duties/taxes etc.

     

    I can only assure folks that, same as the last time we did this, I would only pass on the actual costs involved and will happily produce a breakdown. This is not  profit-making venture! I'm sure @fruehaufsteher2 would take the same approach.

     

    What I do ask though, please, is that if you say you want x metres, then you are committed. I don't actually need cable so don't want to end up with loads of it should anyone decide because of price or whatever, they no longer want it.......

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    1 hour ago, fruehaufsteher2 said:

    Hi Tim,

    sitting here in Dharavandoo and just having killed another cable I changed my mind- I feel able to forward distribute as long as it is inside EU. 

     

     

    Wow, the effects of a nice evening in Dharavandoo, eh? Good for you, mate. Enjoy! Bummer on those dead cables though. I hope you have spares.

     

    Thanks on this. I'm just seeing if I can get this into the EU hand-carried. If not, I'll come back to you.

     

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    42 minutes ago, stillviking said:

    However I would like to shoot shipwrecks near home too, that's why I'm trying to avoid "fisheye" look.

     

    Each to his own, of course. But unless you've tried FEs on a  wreck and really don't like the results, I wouldn't write them off.

     

    Depending how you use it, of course, it's rare that an FE distorts a wreck to such an extent that it becomes obvious because it's rare that wreck images have so many obviously straight lines (weird though that may sound). There are loads of superb wreck pics where an FE was used and you'd be hard pushed to spot that.

     

    They have the advantage too of being relatively inexpensive and can be used in small domes: great for transportation and manoeuvre in the water.

     

    But, as I say, each to his own.

     

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    The issue with full-frame bodies and a rectilinear lens of that range is the size of the dome and the degree to which you are happy with blurry corners.

     

    Unless there is something unusual about the RF15-35 lens design (and I'm not a user) a 6" dome is very small indeed for that type of rectilinear dome.

     

    As you may well have read on lots of posts, rectilinear lanes are best used with big domes. 8" are sort of ok-ish, 9" better. But lots of folks use even 9" domes with a Sea&Sea correction lens. All of this to achieve corners that they find acceptably sharp.

     

    My experience has been with the Nikon 16-35 on full frame. Using an 8" dome produced corners which I thought blurry; a 9" dome was much better but still not corner-sharp. I would not even try with a 6" dome. I gave up in the end as cost, transportability and IQ just became not worthwhile - and went with a Sigma 15mm FE. Problems solved! 

     

    I can't offer any thoughts on the SeaFrogs combination. Maybe they have a magic formula for over-coming the issue.......

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