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Guys If you have recommendations on good ID books to cover fish, reef creatures, corals, nudis etc, post them here and we'll compile a list which is pinned. BOOK LIST EUROPE Blennies of the Mediterranean Sea: Biology and identification of Blenniidae Clinidae Tripterygiidae (Francesco Tiralongo) Fauna und Flora of the Mediterranean/Mittelmeeres (Riedel) - available in Spanish, Italian and German Nudibranchs of Britain,Ireland and Northwest Europe by Bernard Picton and Christina Morrow MIDDLE EAST/GULF/RED SEA Coastal Fishes of Oman (Randall JE) Red Sea Reef Guide (Helmut Debelius) Coral Reef Guide, Red Sea. (Lieske/Myers) A bit dated, but has some good descriptions of organisms, and covers mammals, fish, and invertebrates. Red Sea Marine Life. (Andrey Ryanskiy) Names and pictures only, but contains some unusual and newly identified species. Digital copies also available from https://reefidbooks.com/ Reef Fishes of the East Indies, Vol 1-3 (Allen/Erdmann) Marine life of the Pacific Northwest (Lamb/Hanby) Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean https://saiab.ac.za/publications/coastal-fishes-of-the-western-indian/ SOUTH EAST ASIA A diver's guide to Underwater Malaysia - Macrolife (Ferrari) A diver's guide to Underwater Malaysia - Reef Life (Ferrari) PACIFIC Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific (Allen/Steene/Humann/Deloach) Reef Creature Identification Tropical Pacific (Humann / DeLoach) Nudibranch & Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific (Gosliner/Valdes/Behrens) Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific (Randall JE) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea (Randall/Allen/Steene) Guide to the Sea Fishes of Australia (Kuiter) Micronesian Reef Fishes (Myers RF) Shore Fishes of Hawai'i (Randall JE) Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest (Lamb/Edgell) CARIBBEAN Reef Fish Identification - Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas (Humann/Deloach) Reef Creature Identification - Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas (Paul Humann) Reef Coral Identification - Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas (Paula Humann) Caribbean Reef Life (Mickey Charteris) GENERAL Whelks to Whales (Rick Harbo) Cardinalfilshes of the World (Rudie Kuiter & Toshikazu Kozawa) APPS LIST Fishes of the east Pacific : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fishes-east-pacific/id494644648 WEB SITES Corals of the World Information, identification, distribution and taxonomy of reef building corals

Hey Turandot! Great to have you with us and a warm welcome to this home for us photo refugees. I’m sure you’ll see many familiar names. We hope you like the site.

Yeah, good point. I was thinking it was a general book list but, yep, it's technique. Perhaps we should start one on fish ID?

Worth adding to the book list, Davide?

Yeah, I had the same reaction as Davide. Nice pic! Nope, never used NDs on strobes and, must admit, I can’t imagine the need given the ability to adjust ISO etc even allowing for wanting a well light background. But then, so what? You used them and it worked nicely. Crack on!

It's the "Boil The Frog" Theory. If Nauticam pushed it to £5715, what's the betting Massimo would pay the £15? Massimo???

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It's great to have you with us, Apneagraph. You are most welcome. And please remember, there are no daft questions - only daft answers..... So anything you want to know, ask away.

Yeah, sounds fabulous but hard to justify if you do a couple of dive trips a year. Rental would be nice!

Excellent! Very good to have you with us. Welcome! You’ll see lots of familiar names….

Brilliant! How about I go for $199? Always a convincing figure I thought.....

Ooooo, let me check that. Sorry, svilen. I thought you could. Anyway, all done - no worries

Hey, no worries. Great to have you here. You were a super contributor on WP. 👍🏼

Quite. Enough already.

Welcome, Grant! Great to have you with us.

Great to have you here, Isaac. I’m sure you’ll see lots of fellow refugees. We really hope you like the site.

Done! Just check its in the right place. It’s easy for you to edit your own posts. Just click the ellipsis in the right hand corner of a post and select Edit.

I can't say I've had that experience with the current Nikkor 60mm or 105mm or their predecessors. The old 105mm could be slow and sometimes hunted. But once steered in the right direction, it usually stayed on target. The latest 105mm version is very good.

So EMWL and Subal….. Get behind me, Satan. 🤢😱

There seems to be a good few 4TB SSDs around £200 on Amazon UK including Lexar and Kingston. I don’t know how they compare but I was checking them out earlier.

Great to have you with us, Hidroj. I’m sure you’ll see lots of familiar names here. Welcome!

Brilliant! That works.

Great to have you with us, Keanu, I mean Bob.... Red pill, blue pill, eh?

If we can get that going, I suggest a separate thread: "Proven 3D zoom gears" or such - and Pin it. The use this thread for the usual idle chatter.......