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Last october I was probably the last time in Egypte... liveboard was ok (french boat) but I found that under water less life as before... and the number of boats.... 😞 no that's not for me. All the recent accidents help in my decission .

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I was never sure to go to Mexico... I had allways "a good reason" to go in an other country. But all that I read over the "tax"... is for me a the reason I'll never go in this country. The world is big... there is a lot of thing to show outside of Mexico.

I changed from 2 inon s2000 to 2 retro pro 2 years ago... Euhhhh it's change more or less all The pictures quality make a jump. I'm really happy with my retra... but today the price is much more higher as to years ago. For sure If one break I probably don't buy retra again... but buy something btter/stronger as the s2000. or not sure.... I've now snoot for retra protection for retra etc etc..... but for the moment my 2 retra are working well and I hope it will be the case for the next years ( 2 , 3 4 or more ??? ) Next trip end of the week, 3 weeks Philippines with a lot of pictures... The flash will probably shoot 4k or more times

Hi Jordi, You have an Isotta Housing.. .i'm right?

I forgot one week Lembeh on the way back from Raja. Ich habe die Woche in Lembeh vergessen auf dem Rückweg von Raja. 😉 Nice combination the 3 island... We was there in june this year (but not Bangka... was not the best place when we where there the first time in North Sulawesi.)

Raja Ampat... our trip in february/march 2025... will be nice... but before Moalboal/Dauin/Anda ... The life is hard 😜

If you can drop the price I'm sure that I'll buy a new model (2x)... (with bigger baterrie capacity... 🙂 )

I have 16 x 2 AA plus 2 8 AA charger No problem with that... only that it take time...

Hummm not 100% the same opinion I need to change the 16 batterie all 3 dives (one day) some times I change after 2 dives... to be sure have enough power for the next dive... It's ok but it take a lot of time

For me the main problem is the price... , again your price are to high I'm not sure i'll buy Retra again if one of my actuel retra failed... i'm happy with... but now it's to expensive (for me).

I buy a LSD here to try it and compare with my self made snoot... the idea is probably to sale it again in some month... I want to build a "better" one 🤣

Not only during diving ...

Depending of what you want to reach... for me it's to dive without any trouble to 60 m. It's my limit i'm allowed to dive.

I have only a small part of alluminium on the top and an other on the bottom. The aluminium did go through the arm. An old picture ... it's not my actual setup this was only a try (and it works i dove with a lot) The last version is "better" smarter. An important point I dive a lot "deep" 40 or a little bit more. This setup was near 60 m deep.. Other point I have some heavy things at the end of the arms Again old picture since 2 year or more I replaced the 2 S200 with 2 Retra Pro X Some time, I put on one of the 2 free 1" ball an Insta360

Wrong. I used self made arms since 8 years now. The only thing I did not print are the 1" ball I use some backelite ball putted on short M8 aluminium stick to screw the ball on by arms The first design was not the best but now I'm happy since 5 or 6 years with my arms. I build during past year a new model. The only one change is a small tube going through the arm. The fiberoptic cable go through it... I allready post some pictures on waterpixel

I believe that the Isotta trigger is not TTL. I have a Canon R5 Isotta and he is only manual. It's in the documentation. Hope this help

I took some pictures to give an idea

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My solution since 6 month is to build some arms with a small tube in it the fiber in the arm come out on the other side.... and go in the next arm and go out before going on the strobe. I love this setup

We are going back in december this year.... it was really good last time... If you was only one time it was perhaps a bad periode... or we was very lucky... What we loved in Anda was also the calme of this area..

🤣 I'm not a Shark person... that's the reason we don't plan to go there 😉

I'm going to give my opinion on what I know. We arrived in Cebu and then went to Dauin south of Dumaguete. We stayed for 10 days (Thalatta Resort). We particularly enjoyed the mix of diving mainly Muck in Dauin and coral + panorama of the island of Apo. For the second part of our stay we went to Anda on the island of Bohol. I recommend the Island View Beachfront Resort and the small diving club. Wall, coral, turtle no Muck but beautiful small things to see. We were there in 2022... in a few months we will go back and add Moalboal for another 5 nights. Personally I think that for 2 weeks it's a maximum of 3 resorts in order to limit the loss of time. We were there for 3 weeks... and for our return a little more than 3 weeks and 3 resorts... Each resort change will be made by car and boat. Therefore minimal loss of time and limited costs. I also watched Anilao and Romblon... but it seemed very complicated to me for travel, that's why we went back to the Cebu region. Here some pictures from the 2022 trip Classeur : Philippines 2022 (flickr.com)

Same opinion

Yes it's probably wonderful if you are lucky. For us it was 10 days where it was not the best experience. But I shooted some good pictures Halmahera 2024 Aérien | Flickr