bvanant

I have been mostly using the AOI RC strobes for most of my shooting. The very cool thing about the MF series is the remote triggering, but I don't use it much. The battery situation that would be ideal is if they both used the same damn batteries. Bill

But it's obvious I meant that engineering and design, particularly in context of size, has come a very long way. Meaning if other modern products can get smaller and contain more features, then the back scatter flash can. That is sometimes true, but not obvious. In our world of continuous glucose monitoring it took 2 companies (with essentially infinite money) more than 4 years to make the device about 15% smaller. And one of them paid Google to do it for them. For optical things there is no Moore's law so making very small strobes very bright is still difficult. I don't know how much engineering is at AOI (I think they make the strobes) but I suspect it wasn't on Backscatter's list of most important features. Bill

The question is if I have a couple of MF2 and speak olympus not Sony should I buy one? Not obvious that it is a big difference. Bill

BT parts are relatively cheap, but things get bigger and need support. BVA

I think adding the ability to remotely do a firmware update to that type of strobe would add significant costs. Not sure I need my dive lights/strobes to be on WIFI. Bill

For sale are a pair of Fotocore GTM strobes (black) and batteries for them. Probably on 6 dives with them. I am selling because I have too many strobes. They are on sale at Bluewater for $450, you can have these for $750 for the pair. Bill

I have 3 of the RC AOI strobes. They have been on something like 400+ dives, no issues, but these are the linear not circular tubes. I have 2 of the Supe/Fotocore round tube strobes, seem fine but less power than the HF-1. Bill

We run all kinds of Windows programs on Macs, first with bootcamp (Intel) and now with some virtual machines. We use them for controlling lab instruments and for some coding on some proprietary 3D modeling software. YMMV. And yes we have a dedicated bag of adapters permanently in our travel bag (had to buy some once in the Singapore airport). Bill

If you wait you will wait forever. The 5 Pro will beget the 6 then the 6 pro etc. For travel I have a Mac Air (M4) 24 GB ram and 1 TB ssd. Plenty fast enough and have no issues. We bring a bunch of 4TB ssds with us as primary and backup. BVA

AW Man, now you are making us work. Some stuff hopefully soon. Bill

Dave: If you see one for sale, let me know. Bill

I am looking for a gently used Reefnet Subsee +5 diopter. I know you have one in a drawer somewhere. Thanks Bill