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    Coleman in B&W

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    Coleman in B&W
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    On the US tariff office if you are buying from a MFN then the duty is 0. If it is from somewhere else then 35% is the duty on cameras. BVA
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    One problem with even Terry's books is that they have annoyingly changed some sp numbers from edition to edition. So if you give an ID you need to like Unidentia sp2 you have to tell what edition you are quoting. Many of our southern Cal nudis have changed genus a few have changed species (Hermissenda crassicornis now Hermissenda opalescens. There are a few groups around doing DNA work but even interpreting that is complex. Bill
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    EPDM is a bit more resistant to sunlight and ozone than is Buna. Otherwise in terms of mechanical properties (compression set, and durometer they are nearly identical and a very large fraction of your scuba o-rings are likely Buna-N. Call the O-ring guys and tell them you need only 10 of epdm that has worked for me Bill
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    You should be able to uprez to what you want, but I don't have any thing in the 14-4 aspect ratio Bill
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    Not a bad idea. Probably you won't need them but more than likely someone will. I am on a 4 week trip and already 2 of my spare strobes and a spare sola have been used, just not by me. Bill
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    The problem is that most of us shoot in aspect ratios that are different than that. I will see what we have. Bill
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    I try that but my wife (a good videographer but with simple gear) says that essential is limited to things that she needs, and that I already have too much stuff. Cheers Bill
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    and there always is a "next needed item" 😃
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    Is this guy a porcelain crab? Looks like it but with pointy ends for some legs. Thanks Bill
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    thanks, we did a google image search as well and saw the Japanese photos that looked very similar. We will be going back for more blackwater this week maybe there will be more. Bill
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    Here is a nice little squid we saw on a black water dive in Komodo on the Samambaia. If anyone has an ID we would love to know. thanks Bill
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    Great shot Dave. We see them quite a bit at Farnsworth, a friend touched one (but only once). Bill
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    My rule of thumb for one generation old stuff is something like 80 to 85% of new. For strobes and stuff more than a generation old, something like 50 to 60%. Bill
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    looks kind like a cross between a tiger and great white. From the perspective of users of images, I am not sure they really care. If you look at most TV advertisements for new cars, most if not all are renderings, rather than actual footage. If I were looking for a pic for an ad needing a shark, why not use an AI one if it were significantly cheaper/better. Advertisers don't owe UW photographers anything, they are trying to sell something. Magazines and websites are an entirely different story. We make medical devices and clearly use stock photos of people that we pretend are real patients but never claim that they are. So a lot depends on the end use. Bill
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    Just let me know and 1 or 2 addresses to ship to. Last time I did this a guy ordered 10m. To me in LA it was $75 + 7 shipping. Adding a $9 shipping to Europe it came out to $9 per meter. Remember that the $7.50 per meter does not include their shipping to me, it is a bit more. Bill
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    Hollywood divers rents a ton of gear, much of it to the local film industry. Bluewater photo MIGHT have some rental gear, but Hollywood is kind of the go to place to rent in So Cal. Bill
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    I have made cables from single core Asahi 1mm core and 1.5 mm core. Also with 217 and 613 multi-cores. The 1.5 mm core could trigger the MF-2 in RC mode (for blackwater) as could the 217 and 613 core fibers. The 1 mm core mostly didn't trigger in RC mode but was fine for manual (AOI LED trigger). There is no IFO cable they are a distributor. The fiber is made by Asahi, digikey is famous for putting a variety of names on commodity stuff. Let me know. I am leaving for Komodo on the 7th so it will have to be after that, back Sept. 8 BVA
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    There are a couple of ways to do this. 1. I will pay for the fiber and postage to a single or maximum 2 European/UK address(es) and get reimbursed by someone. 2. Someone in the EU/UK buys the cable and has it shipped to me. I will then ship ($20ish) to Europe/UK and get reimbursed for the shipping by someone. Let me know bill.vanantwerp@gmail.com
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    If you want to put together an order for say 20 meters, I will be happy to ship it to anyone via USPS. I have done this for individuals in Europe before. BVA
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    We saw the exhibit in Edinburgh last spring. Loved the horseshoe crabs. In Edinburgh though the photos were on digital displays, not prints. Bill
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    I suspect that most arms will work as well as any other, perhaps the anodization will be less robust, but for clamps I have a bunch of ULCS clamps now more than 15 years old and always perfect. I did get some cheap ALI clamps that were terrible, the edges were so sharp that they scratched the balls and cut the orings and didn't hold unless they were really tightened down. Bill
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