brightnight

Sorry to heat your kit was stolen, that's a real bummer. There was a post on the Underwater Photo and Video Equipment Buy & sell page on Oct 13. Doesn't appear to be your stolen kit but wanted to pass along the listing in case you wanted to purchase it. I haven't bought from this group of seller so use your discretion.

Just finished 18 days and almost 100 hours of use with my DIY strobes cables and didn't have one issue. Abused them on the rocks in the shallows and in the pack while bushwacking into remote locations. They performed flawlessley. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to this thread!! I never would have made my own cables without these posts.

Two additonal questions have come up while using my monitor and curious if anyone has suggestions. 1) Now that the image on the monitor looks so good (which is ideal for framing images), I often find myself thinking it would be nice to change the camera settings in photo mode so that the image is exposed to what the monitor is displaying because the monitor looks so nice. I assume there's no way to output the adjustments my Kraken 7" ultrabirght monitor is making from the camera to make the image look so nice so I can set the camera to be the same. My workaround is to test fire a shot and look at the picture, then adjust as needed but wondering if there is a better way so I don't have to waste battery life firing off shots. I know I want my cake and eat it too but someone here might have a trick up their sleeve. 2) My monitor often goes gray and says lost signal from the camera. Sometimes it seems to go through phases where it happens often but mostly it seems to cut out for a few seconds once a minute or so like the signal strength from the camera dropped out and then comes back. Thinking it could be too long of a flat ribbon cable in the housing (it's the one that came with the monitor), maybe the flat cable was creased and that's interferring with the signal, or maybe the HDMI cable is stretched and thats causing interferance between conductors inside, anyone else seen anythng like this or have a suggestion on what to do?

Exposure simulation was it! Thank you, was out today and made a massive difference now that I can actually frame a shot 🙂

As I understand it, my kraken monitor diplays the picture as my Canon 5dmIV sees it in live view. However, the camera is set to full manual and isn't accounting for light from the strobes so everything the camera sees is very dark and therfore everything on the monitor appears very dark. Since everything appears dark on the monitor even though the brightness of the monitor is is set high enough, framing images is impossible because I can't see anything. How can I keep the camera settings the same while have the monitor compensate or what are my options? Is this where selecting a lux table in the monitor would be helpful or some type of exposure compensation?

Love it, might have to make one of these for my 7" monitor!

During a typical dive I expect the air temperature to be 40-50F (4.4-10C) but I will be in the water (shallow) as long as possible, from morning until dark. At the coldest the air temp will be 30F (-1 C) at night and 52 F (10C) during the day.

I'm preparing to photograph in ~50F water (10C) and worried about my housing fogging. What steps should I take to prevent or minimize it? The humidity where I’m diving is 94% and the dew point is 50F (10C). I can’t do much about the humidity where I will be staying (hardly have electricity), but I could leave my housing open in the car the night before so it stays cold and then close it up in the morning. Any other suggestions for preventing fogging? Silica gel packets are an option too. Side Note: While I can put my housing together the night before, I will have to open it once or two a day to replace camera batteries.

That's a good idea, probably my best bet in the short term but I was already grumbling about a $200 AOI lens for a GoPro 🙂 I need to do more investigation....not a big fan of fisheye video look but maybe for one camera it would be ok or I can wait it out depending on when backscatter gets them in. I assume the 52mm adapter with the AOI lens as @Davide DB had done won't work and I'd have to use the Inon SD Adapter mount, which won't work with the Digipower packs. Grrr.

Appreciate the suggestion, they don't have any in stock unfortunately.

Looking for a AOI UWL-03 Wide Angle Lens or two. Thanks!

Grrr, Backscatter is out of stock of the AOI 0.73X Ultra-Wide Lens and won't have any for another 2 weeks. Haven't been able to find a second source in the USA. Would need to get 1 or two in the next 7 days. Any suggestions? Been googling with no luck...

Appreciate the heads up but just picked up two from a member here. Thanks for thinking of me! -Pete

Love the out of the box thinking! The aliexpress ones might work with an adapter. Thinking I might just 3D print a backup and bring some glue so if one breaks I can glue it and if it's beyond gluing I could use the printed one. Have a trip in a couple weeks so starting to run low on time for things to be shipped to me.

Thanks, that's what I'm looking for. I was planning on using a Digi-power pack for extended run time but every image I see of the AOI UWL 03 has it mounted on a GoPro underwater housingnull. Can I mount the lens directly to a Gopro without an underwater housing and do you know if there will be interferance issues with the Digi-power pack? I'll be in shallow water and want extended run time of the GoPro.