TimG

Hi BJS Not to M4/3 but I “downgraded” from D800 to D500 about 8 years ago and am still using the D500. Haven’t regretted it for a second. I’ve posted many times about the advantages of sub-FF in terms of cost, portability and ergonomics - and no noticeable quality cost unless, maybe, serious commercial use or massive prints involved. There are a good few M4/3 members who will join in.

Great to have you with us, Eduardo! Welcome.

Hi Iz! A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us. We hope you really enjoy the forum. Living in Indonesia AND doing CCR! Yay, how cool is that! Best wishes Tim

Sorry mate. I should have given you more warning. Feel better soon. 👹

makar0n gave me really helpful advice with this some time ago and I got the Samsung 990 Pro 4TB and an enclosure. The work of moments to put it together and it works like a charm. I use it as my main photo storage attached to..... [look away, makar0n]...... a Mac Studio. It would certainly be perfect for a travel storage disk. One thing I did find and that was new to me, is that you have to pick the right USB-C cable to make sure you get the best possible speed. I thought they were all just two plugs and a cable. Seems they ain't. What works best (for me, anyway) is a 20GB/s cable.

Whooo, that’s an odd one. Is it feasible that the battery connectors in the trigger have got slightly bent and one of the batteries only connects when in a certain orientation?

I think we need a video of this!

Hey Geoff! Great to have you with us and welcome to Waterpixels. Film in Raja eh? Not too many folks think about doing that these days. I can well understand you hesitating though over the switch to digital given the timing. I have to say though, it's not a difficult transition. Well, other than on your bank account of course! THat's pretty painful. We hope you enjoy the forum.

Enjoy them, Hugues!

Hey Bruce! Welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us. We hope you really enjoy the forum. We've got a good few Oz members including my colleague, Chris Ross, a Senior Moderator/ Best wishes

I try not to see it in heroic terms.

At the other end of this He Man spectrum...... Although admittedly not "local", I was diving from MV Harmoni in Raja a few weeks ago. Whilst the tropical sun beat down on the canvas awning which flapped languidly in the breeze, the crew put all my gear, except mask and camera, in the RIB. I sauntered down the steps and took a comfortable seat on the RIB tube. We drove to the dive site and the crew held gear on the RIB tube to allow arms to be slipped through whilst offering to do up the buckles. I said I could manage. A gentle backward roll led into the 29 degree water. The RIB was waiting for me on ascent. The crew pulled my gear out of the water, removed my fins and I climbed the 3-rung ladder. On returning to Harmoni, I wandered up the steps to the deck enjoying the sunshine whilst the crew took my gear, except mask and camera, rinsed it, filled the tank with Nitrox ... and handed me a glass of chilled juice and a fresh towel. No sweat was raised. No heart pounded. I made it all look easy. As the US Marines would say, OOO-rah. More mango juice, sir?

I must admit to being puzzle by the negative comments on the Eneloop Pros. Yep, agreed that the white non-Pros ones seem to last for years before they start to show even the slightest degrade. My oldest Pros (I've got about 32 of them) are maybe 4 years old and have certainly been recharged many times over many dive trips in USB-driven EBL fast chargers but, so far at least, are as a good as gold. But maybe I have just tempted fate.....

I don't think I've ever dived to 40m (wimp?) but I've had my Stix to just over 30m lots of times. Never had an issue.

Yeah, here, on good ol'Waterpixels.net. Nothing to lose, eh? It costs nothing!

There is a market for retro gear. I’d try advertising them on the Classifieds……

Another vote for Stix Jumbo. Long-lasting, easy to change and relatively inexpensive (as u/w photo gear goes!)

If you go into your profile then Account Setting and click on the Signature tab.... you can then create up to ?3 lines of text.

I reckon I take 80-100 images on a dive. Yep, after 25+ years, super ruthless. If it’s not a 3-4 star, it’s a delete. That probably gets down to 30-40% of the trip’s images. I usually do a second review about 72 hours after that cull and another batch will go to digital Valhalla. I now aim to end up with maybe 15-20images from a dive. Any doubts at all and it’s au revoir. What’s left is keyworded and filed by year and date all in Lightroom. This adds up now to about 55,000 images, almost 2TB. The catalog is on an SSD with a backup to a NAS and two backups to external hard disks. I did tackle the film images - slides - but foolishly scanned them as not very large jpgs. I should have done much higher quality or, better, TIFFs. I can’t face the rescan job! Ruthless. Why keep so-so? Are you really going to look back at them?

Hey Grantmac! Welcome to Waterpixels - great to have you with us. I have to admire you Canadian divers..... brrrrrr.... We hope you really enjoy the forum. Best wishes