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Not sure if this truly a landmark or not, but thanks to all the activities of members, the 23,000th Waterpixels post was recorded today. -
Hi Clément! A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Really great to have you with us. We hope you enjoy the forum. Best wishes Tim
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Snorkelling or diving is pretty much the same for splits. You need the camera slightly submerged. I thought the swimming bands on the strobe arms a super idea. I did wonder though whether putting the housing on a swimming board would make it difficult to submerge. Sitting on the inside of a partially inflated BCD (so sitting on the BCD's back rest) was the method I'd found reasonably effective. You can play around a little to start with increasing the air in the BCD until you get the right level of buoyancy. You can also sort of rest on the BCD and push it down or angle it with your arms.
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Hi CRobinson! A warm welcome to Waterpixels! Great to have you with us. we hope you really enjoy the forum. Best wishes Tim
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Excellent. They’re so easy to make you’ll be wishing you did it ages ago!
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Dave, we were on Harmoni last year. Brilliant! Best liveaboard we’ve done.
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I'm with Chris. A Retra diffuser cunningly fitted to the Backscatter strobe. Fiendish.
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Do extended fast bursts of high power flashes underwater cause migraines or trigger epilepsy episodes for marine creatures? Just askin' for a friend.
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There were certainly a number of reports some years ago of issues around the Sea & Sea D2 strobes. At the time some users thought the D2J resolved the problems. I don’t think there have been an unusual number of problems reported with the D3.
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Retra have made a firmware update available through the usual download App channels including now the Google Play Store for Android users. This is for the Pro Max II. The update primarily allows the new App to connect to the Maxi strobe. The update also adds a Pilot Light Toggle Function. The firmware update includes v2.17 for the Pro Max, v2.4 for the Prime+ and v2.4 for the Pure. It also includes v4.2 for the ProX/PrimeX (renamed 3.13) and firmware 4.5 (renamed 4.3) for PRO/Prime 2nd generation. -
Well greetings, old chap - and a jolly warm welcome to our august forum (another stereotypical greeting, eh 😉) Really great to have you with us, ubiquitous (there's a user name that takes some careful spelling.)
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Hey JAM! Welcome to Waterpixels. It's good to have you with us. We hope you really enjoy the forum. Best wishes Tim
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Hmmm, not sure I've seen anything I'd call strobe brand bashing. Well not since the old Sea & Sea issue anyway. Seems to me these are all perfectly good strobes we're talking about. We all have brand preferences based on personal experience, a specific feature or just their good looks. Producing truly accurate comparisons is incredibly difficult given the vagaries of environment, set up, batteries etc. Some amazing work has been posted here by folks who have put hours of work and thought into testing - for which, massive thanks. After that, yeah, I'm sure one can be tweaked slightly differently from another. But aren't we getting a bit beyond the point? Take your pictures and enjoy them. No matter how perfect the bit of gear might be, something underwater is going to lead to some sort of degradation in perfomance.
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Yep, we stayed at Buceo but way back in December 2017. Black sand diving, definitely macro, accommodation was arranged up a steep hill, all boat diving with no house reef. Thats about the best I can do!
