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    Hey Shelby

     

    You pose an interesting question. I’d suggest age has quite an impact. 
     

    From my experience, Older divers tend, generalising, to use stills-based equipment with possibly a GoPro ad-on. A hangover from DSLR and compact days. 
     

    Younger divers are far more likely to go with video systems of the GoPro variety or the 360-degree systems. 
     

    Although income could be part of the picture , I’d suggest that the younger users are more SM savvy and want to post video. 
     

    I’m on my way back from a Red Sea liveaboard trip and this trend was really noticeable. It left me wondering about the future of underwater stills photography and the impact for equipment manufacturers. 
     

    The other noticeable trend is stills photography by using housed smart phones, such as the SeaLife for iPhones. Again though I thought this seemed to be the choice of the older diver. 

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    I can’t compare the two as I’ve never used the BS one. 
     

    I can’t say I’ve ever had an issue with lighting any subject with the LSD.
     

    I have an LSD-fitted Retra Max on my left hand held with a 5” + 8” ULCS arms fitted with Stix floats.

     

    As Chip suggests, don’t clamp them down to hard but just enough so they are easy to move with your left hand. I use the LSD tube as the manoeuvring handle. Fitted with one of the slide masks, and away you go…. 

     

     

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    Hey guys

     

    i’m looking at planning a dive trip for a large group in August or October 2026 to Belize or maybe Roatan. I’m thinking of using Aggressor IV. 

     

    Any thoughts or recent experiences would be most welcome. 
     

    As an associated, and slightly odd, issue…… has anyone used Aggressor III and how was the cabin experience? The reason to ask is that I see that, as opposed to Aggressor IV, all the cabins have a double bottom bunk bed with a single top bunk. I ran a trip in 2020 with a similar set up (not Aggressor) and most of the team found it awful: coffin-like and barely able to turn over! I have no wish to repeat that. But I’m told Aggressor is very good so I wondered. 
     

    Many thanks. 

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    Great to have you with us, sridiver! A warm welcome to Waterpixels from “the cool kids”! 
     

    Craig: “kids”?,  ”cool”?? Really???  This is us you’re talking about…….

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    9 hours ago, bghazzal said:


    Speaking of scammers and security... 😳
     

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    (brutally honest choice of forum section to post in btw)

    Or wait, maybe I'm not reading this right and this is just for night dives? 😅😇
     

    Yeah, Wetpixel is getting deluged with them. Nothing the mods can do. 
     

    Skin diving?

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    24 minutes ago, brightnight said:

    I expect the air temperature to be 40-50F (4.4-10C) but I will be in the water (shallow) as long as possible, from morning until dark. 

     

    Woah, you are one tough, dude! Good luck with that. I had to put a jumper on to even read that.

     

    I'm off to the Red Sea fairly soon: 28C degrees.... 😎 

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    I have to put my hand up as having gone through the route Z240 - Retra ProX - Retra ProMax. 
     

    I’ve never regretted for a second the move from Inon to Retra. I loved the Z240s but the Retras are way ahead in terms of power, ergonomics, build quality, functionality, light quality, accessories. 
     

    I moved to the ProMax about a year ago. The reduction in size of the additional battery pack was a prime driver. Yes, they are significantly more expensive than the Pro X but value for money is, I think, a bit of a subjective term. I think they’re well worth the cost. I got a pretty decent price for my Pro Xs so was happy to find the extra. 
     

    I find the Retra strobe/LSD combination fabulous, their reflector a super bit of kit. I use HSS a lot shooting into the sun. All in all, I’m really happy with what I have and zero buyer’s remorse. 
     

    If the price of the Pro Max doesn’t represent VFM for you, how about second hand Pro Xs. They are to be found and I really doubt you’d regret getting them. 

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    14 hours ago, RVBldr said:

    @TimG  I believe that might just delete the first photo selected, so you need to repeat. Otherwise, once all have been selected, right click and there should be an option to DELETE ALL SELECTED PHOTOS. That will mass delete and allow you select Remove from Drive. 

     

    Yep, using the CTRL-A or Command-A should select all the pics. But, yeah, otherwise one at a time!

     

    As atus says too, it's really important that you use LR to do everything: import into LR, move, copy, delete, rename etc within LR. If you change something outside LR (eg directly in a folder on your NAS) it rapidly becomes a mess and the LR catalog won't know what has happened. This leads to all sorts of issues which can be very hard to sort out. LR is a great a program but you must work within at all times. 

    Hi!

     

    Well in theory it should be straight-forward.....

     

    Assuming LR knows the images are on your NAS (so they show up in the LR Library catalogue as being on your NAS drive):

     

    - use the filters in Library Grid mode to show all the images you want to delete

    - highlight  them all using CTRL-A (Windows) or Command-A (Mac)

    - then hit your delete key.

    - it'll ask if you want to remove them from the hard drive (ie your NAS) or from the LR catalogue.

    - If you want to get rid of them permanently, select Remove from Drive (or at least whatever option is NOT remove from LR).

    - as the image are on a NAS you might get a warning that the images will be deleted and can't be sent to or retrieved from, eg, your Bin. 

    - select Yes or OK... or some such

     

    And that should be that......

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