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    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%. 

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    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? 

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    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. 

    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.

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    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/

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