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    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?

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    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.....

    On 7/5/2025 at 12:24 AM, Davide DB said:

    If you do tech dives just keep in mind that below 40 m, Stixs will shrink like marshmallow. Been there done that.

    As Chris pointed out, closed cells pvc foam with a density of 25/30 kg/m3 is the safe choice.

    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.

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    3 hours ago, Kristin said:

    I don't have instagram but will try to find him on ebay, thanks!

    You mean here? If anyone wants them, please do reach out :)

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

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    56 minutes ago, aquabluedreams said:

    Ahhhh, I feel better now, I am not the only borderline image hoarder, lol. Probably need to update my storage to ssd.

    Off subject how do you get a link to your website or youtube page to show in your signature?

    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.

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    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?

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    54 minutes ago, Architeuthis said:

    Hi Tim,

    I am currently using version 6.1.4.22653. The icons for LRc became worse (ambivalent symbols for the potentiometers, e.g. for adjusting temperture, tint, heigths etc.. etc.. even without text explanation). Furthermore at present I am not able to assign user presets (e.g for my new Tamron 35-150mm f/2-f/2.8, that I use over the water) to buttons of my Loupedeck CT (maybe the next software upgrade may solve this problem)...

    See the embedded screenshot for what I mean with ambivalent symbols for potentiometers:

    Screenshot 2025-07-01 at 13.54.10.png

    Since long I gave up complaining at the user service - I think this is just lost time...☹️

    Ooooof, thanks for that, Wolfgang. I'm still on v5.9.x which has then old icons. I might stay with that!

    I’ve banged on about this many times….. so here goes again.

    FF, topside? Why not? There’s no real reason I can think of NOT to get an FF camera.

    However, underwater? It’s a different story. As Chris, Davide and David have all set out in different ways, non-FF systems can have real advantages. And I agree with Davide that we are seduced by camera manufacturers that if you’re not using FF, you’ve got less of a system.

    It boils down to what you plan to do with the images. Serious commercial sales? Massive prints? Then maybe FF. But for screen size images (including sales) and prints up to A2, sub-FF can work perfectly and you can’t tell the difference. The plus points: less expensive, less bulky, easier for travelling, usually easier to house the wide-angle lenses, easier DOF with macro…..

    Yep, back in the early-2010s I was seduced by the FF marketing and housed a D800. When it was time to move on I switched in 2017 back to the APSC D500 and haven’t regretted it for a second. Never had a moment’s Buyer’s Regret. Talking to Z8 users, I’m sticking with a D500 until Nikon comes up with a high-end mirrorless APSC.

    There. Said it. I feel better 🙃

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    Hey stiebs

    Urgh, that’s pretty upsetting.

    Good suggestion from Dave.

    Although it might not feel like it at the moment, the mark isn’t that large. It’s not in a great location admittedly, but using something like LR you should be able to remove it successfully from many images.

    If polishing doesn’t remove it, and depending on repair costs from Nauticam, I’d be tempted to continue to use it with edits and see how you get on. Then decide what to do.

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    I've switched over the years between fisheye (Sigma 15mm, Tokina 10-17) and a lens similar to the 17-28 (Nikkor 16-35). I always find I prefer the fisheye. So much easier to house, small dome, smaller for travelling, excellent DOF, easy to focus.

    I find it rare that the fisheye distortion is overwhelming or a problem in the vast majority of UW pics.

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    Hey Christoph

    Given where you are coming from and the equipment you already have, I can totally understand your lens choices. Just a couple of things to bear in mind, Id suggest:

    Unless you are using wet lens attachments, largely driven by Nauticam, the lens choices for u/w tend to be extreme: fisheyes (15mm for FF, 10-15mm with APS-C sensors), extreme wide-angle rectilinear; then macro - typically 105mm with an FF sensor. The reason being that you want to minimise the amount of water between the camera and the subject. This can be trickier with mid-range type zooms.

    Forgive me if I'm reciting something of which you are fully aware, but I thought it worth a mention in terms of longer-term planning of lens choices and equipment.

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