brightnight

They should create a website or app where you can submit your own photos (of anything) and select the primary target in each photo and then it builds a custom model for the camera to use based on the type of images you take and what you want it to focus on. People could then sell their models just as they do with presets.

WACP is great but worth considering the downsides of it too. Cost, size, travel, weight, hyrodynamics, etc. I haven't used the WWL and I do love the WACP, but sometimes it can be too much of a beast even if it takes great images.

Dry sounds nice! Why wet the next trip? Is it just speed into the water?

Wow, that's exciting! About time!

BBF on my housing is not easy to use so it strains my hands. Unless I'l shooting in the dark, I avoid using it.

It sounds like lights come on the charger but it doesn't charge, is that correct? I assume you have tried unplugging the charger and plugging it back in. Try unplugging the barrel jack to the charging cradle and clean that too. Try charging only a 2 or 4 batteries at a time and if that doesn't work, swap them to different slots. Have you used this charger in Fiji before? The back of the charger will be stamped with the charger input AC requirements. It should say something like 100–240 V AC, 50/60 Hz. This is most likely not the problem but worth checking. According to the internet the outlets in Fiji are 240 V/50 Hz so if the charger is only for 120V/60Hz, that would be an issue.

Don't have an answer for you will share my experience and I'm surprised they are that cheap. I contacted a number of companies in the USA and China and the acylic domes were much more expensive but they were also many times larger. It was hard to find anything that was "optical grade" which I'm guessing is much harder to make for larger domes, but I also wasn't sure I needed it and didn't want to spend the money to find out the hard way. Sounds like you have that part figured out. The most challanging part of the dome I hadn't solved was the housing interface, making it waterproof, and getting the right standoff distance. Definitely can be done and much simpler to do for taking images on the surface compared to depth. I'll be curious what you find out.

Nope but worth a shot

I'm using a Nauticam 5Dmiii housing setup with a 180mm dome, dual strobes, and a Kraken 7" UltraBright monitor. I can get the rig close to neutral buoyancy overall, but the trim is pretty far off. The dome is highly positively buoyant and wants to rotate upward, while the monitor is about 560 g negative and pulls the back of the rig downward. I’m thinking the best approach may be to remove floats from the arms, add buoyancy underneath or around the monitor to lift in the back which will push the front dome down, and possibly add a small amount of weight (wheel weights) under the dome to help balance the rotation. Since the system will eventually be used on a scooter, I’m also considering a buoyancy collar around the extension ring both for trim and potentially improved hydrodynamics. Does anyone have recommendations for: -The best foam/material to add buoyancy under or around the monitor -Suggestions on attachment methods to the monitor -Any experience balancing similar large-monitor DSLR rigs for DPV use, or if anything I mentioned is a bad idea One option is to epoxy strix floats to the back/bottom of the monitor but figured there must be a more elegant and less perminant way. I typically use the monitor in this position. Perhaps moving the monitor over the dome would help, not sure on how that would effect hydronamics or viewing the screen while on the scooter. I am setup for photos not video and enjoy using a monitor even if it's for photos.

If you have a big camera on top, doesn't the DPV want to roll over so that the camera is on the bottom and is there anything you can do to reduce? Having now spent a few hours in the water with the DPV I definitely still need more refinement before I add the camera. It's neutrally bouyant with the mount but still wants to sit handle facing the bottom if I'm not holding onto it, imagine the camera will make it worse.

Arrived today! Do you have a reccomendation on a stap to mount it to the DPV? I saw one site advertising a rubber coated "non-slip cam band" but not sure how important that is or if any strap will do. Perhaps some type of polyeurathan coated tank strap?

Love this option. Talked to the folks at Yellow Diving and now just have to figure out how to get it from Poland to the USA. If anyone has suggestions I'm all ears. Poland post isn't shipping the the US, UPS/Fedex/DHL Express are extremely expensive. Grrr.

Apprecaite all the advice! I will definitely make sure my camera setup and DPV and independently neutrally buoyant. They are big fish by my standards: 2-3ft (1m) in length. Planning on shooting from the scooter and also to detach and shoot but really not sure how easy it will be, how the fish will react, etc., but training should help with calmly removing the camera and re-attaching it. Based on my experience with other fish I tend to think they won't mind much but only time will tell...nothing with animals every goes accoding to plan. Typically I've shot fish with the WACP-1, I love sharp wide angle and that's my favorite lens but it's very hefty and not hydrodynamic so trying to understand how realistic it would be to use it before getting in the water and testing in the coming weeks. I guess anything will move through the water if you try hard enough :)

How big of a consideration is the lens choice when mounting the camera to the DPV or does it not make much of a difference? Can anyone share some of the lessons they've learned or how much consideration I should give to lens choice. Figured I would ask before I started testing in the water in a week or two. In an ideal world I would use the WACP-1 but that might requrie too much bouyancy and drag to be practical. Unfortuately my Nauticam 5dMiii housing cannot use a WWL, otherwise that would be my primary choice. I already have a 8" dome but could pick up a smaller dome if it would be a lot more practical.

Thanks for the info, I do have a monitor and love shooting with it so that's a plus. I liked the mount but wasn't sure if I'd be shooting forward or sideways. Sent you a PM for the mount files.