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Welcome aboard! Yet another member with a mighty A7SIII! Ciao

Now the question is: does it accept a teleconverter?

sonyalpharumors | Sony Digital Camera NewsFirst leaked images of the new 8-14mm f/3.5 FE lensAnd here we have the first leaked image of the new 8-14mm f/3.5 Fisheye G zoom lens! Let me know in the comment system if you spot something interesting on the image...I certainly have ;) Preorders op

We know the master and his t-shirt very well 😁

TechCrunchGoPro to be acquired for $285M, will remain a public comp...GoPro is merging with a company that builds AI infrastructure, and will continue supporting existing consumer products.

Backscatter.comThe Best Underwater Strobes Tested 2026 - Underwater Phot...It may or may not be a surprise, but there are no industry standards or governing bodies conforming the methods, or the specifications, on how underwater strobes are tested. Most strobe manufacturers

Hi JB, Could you upload on YouTube a small unlisted video showing the problem? P.S. An Unlisted video on YouTube is a privacy setting where a video is hidden from public discovery but remains accessible to anyone who has the direct link (URL).

This is a great initiative to bring the community closer and showcase everyone's work. The calendar and the Members' Choice Award are solid ideas to support the platform. Please take a moment to vote in the poll and leave your feedback below, whether you plan to enter or have suggestions on the format. The team needs our input to understand if this is worth launching, so every comment helps.

Backscatter filters are not the best but worth a try. If you missed it I suggest to read this incredible article on WB and action cameras. Concepts are valid for any camera.

I couldn't agree more. Often technological replacement is confused with the extinction of an entire sector. The idea that smartphones would completely wipe out cameras was based on the assumption that taking a picture is just recording pixels. Following this linear reasoning, if the phone takes good photos for 99 percent of daily situations, the dedicated camera no longer has a reason to exist. Instead, something very similar to what happened in the music market with vinyl is happening. The more mobile photography becomes automated, compressed, and dominated by aggressive computational algorithms, the more people rediscover the value of the physical object, manual control, and an image with a natural optical rendering. "organic" 😁 Just look at kodak and film stocks. it was declared dead but now a lot of movie are shot again on film stock. The phenomenon of the Fujifilm X100 series and Ricoh GR is explained precisely like this: Fuji has intercepted a huge audience that wants the "organic" shooting experience and ready-to-use color rendering, without necessarily having to spend the evening developing RAW files on a monitor. The overtake of Nikon in terms of volumes tells exactly this change of priority in the consumer market. I guess that most of the X100 and GR customers comes form smartphones and not from hard core photography. The roles have simply sorted themselves out in the end. The smartphone acts as an omnipresent visual notepad and finances technological research on sensors, the dedicated camera remains the tool of those who look for deliberate action and control of parameters, and action cams and products like the Osmo Pocket have taken the place of old camcorders for mobile video. Smartphones may cannibalize large numbers, but they will hardly erase dedicated tools as long as the latter continue to offer a user experience that a flat touch glass can never replicate.

While it's tiny, it's a prime lens so you will not get the flexibility of a fisheye zoom and TC

Yes certainly but ours is a niche need. In normal photography today HDR is used. But surely underwater photography will benefit from it too. We need to keep an eye on the reviews of the new high end Chinese phones coming at the end of the year that will use Sony and Omnivision sensors.

We are not very good at predicting market trends 🙃 And anyway I will never tire of emphasizing that the number of smartphones sold is 1.25 billion units, while the entire photography sector, including compacts and mirrorless cameras, did not even reach 10 million. Two orders of magnitude. Technology advance comes from smartphones.

Something more serious

Nikkei shared its Industry Map 2027 with a ranking of global camera shipments. Canon – 4.5 million units (45.7%, +2.5%) Sony – 2.42 million units (24.6%, -3.9%) Fujifilm– 1.16 million units (11.8%, +2.8%) Nikon – 880,000 units (8.9%, -2.8%) Panasonic – 430,000 units (4.4%, +1%) Ricoh Imaging – 210,000 units (2.1%, +1.3%) OM Digital – 150,000 units (1.5%, -0.4%) Image credit: mirrorlessrumors.com It is worth noting how incredibly Nikon is no longer the third player in the market, surpassed by Fujifilm. This is probably due to the incredible success of the luxury compact camera Fujifilm X100VI. This retro-designed camera that mimics the style of rangefinder cameras has broken every historical sales record for the brand and is often hard to find in stores. It is compact only on the outside: it packs a 40.2-megapixel sensor and in-body image stabilization and offers Fujifilms famous historical color profiles without the need for post-production. More and more manufacturers are launching vintage-style compact models. On September 9 OM formerly Olympus will launch the successor to the legendary PEN. for the rest, Canon is firmly in the lead, Sony has a slight dip and the others... are fighting in the mud 🥲

Wow a really good job! One single very long tracking shot, you never lost focus or shook during the shooting. Bravo! P.S. At first glance, getting that close would have scared the crap out of me 😱

Of course! Do not take me literally. Besides, what else should we talk about between one diving trip and another? 😁

I practically only do technical dives with rebreathers and multiple stages, so: no DPV, no party 😉 Because of this I have always used an M43 system to limit bulk. I only shoot video and I have given up on having a kit that does everything. Depending on the dives or my mood I choose: 14-42mm plus WWL-1 for mid-wide 14-42mm plus CMC-2 on a flip for details and macro 45mm plus CMC-2 on a flip for exclusive macro. I rarely use the 12-35mm with a 6 inch port for general mid shots and I regret not using it more often. In his range is tack sharp and better than WWL but most of the time it's not wide enough. Impossible to swap lenses on my dives. With the 6 inch port or the WWL I sometimes mount everything on the scooter otherwiseI clip my kit on a D-ring or I bring it on the left forearmlike a basket. Never had a blurp on the WWL and never had bubble issues. From 40 meters down everything washes out. 😅

Guys, I am jumping into this discussion about Full Frame for the last time just to share a very personal thought, without any intention of convincing anyone. As we always say, we agree to disagree: the great thing is that everyone is completely free to choose and use the system they feel best with in the water. There is no absolute truth to impose. I find the video posted by @Christian K very insightful. @Alex_Mustard and @MatthewSullivan review what they consider to be the most iconic underwater photos, taken from the book celebrating 60 years of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year. What makes you think is that many of those photos, which we still consider absolute masterpieces today, were taken several years ago. In the video you can see shots like Doug Perrine shark in the sardine run or Brian Skerry incredible encounter with the right whale. The cameras used for those shots were prehistoric compared to today. They had a fraction of the megapixels and a dynamic range that would make people laugh today. Yet, do we really think that any random photographer today, just because they bought the latest top model with 15 stops of DR, is able to take better photos than the ones David Doubilet took fifteen years ago? Following this logic, photos in the future will always be better than those from the past. Yet the history of photography teaches us the opposite. Often on forums we focus so much on the specs, and I completely understand that having the top technology is appealing. But I believe that in practical use, the technical differences between the various formats affect the final result only in a very small way. The reality is that our limits as photographers almost always arrive way before the limits of the gear. Very few people can really push the capabilities of the camera in their hands to the extreme. Underwater, physics and water skills rule. You can have the most advanced sensor on the market, but if you do not know how to approach the subject properly, the water column will eat up your colors and contrast. If you do not know how to position your strobes correctly, you will get a flat image or a wall of backscatter, regardless of the size of the sensor. Modern technology is fantastic because it makes our lives easier, drastically increases the success rate of our shots, and forgives mistakes that previously ruined a photo. But aesthetics, composition, and light management are not included in the price of the sensor. Because of this, I believe that arguing over sensor format is a bit pointless. Let us enjoy the gear we chose, whatever it is, and let us focus on getting our housings wet.

Do you dive with your colleague? Have you ever handled hisl D850 kit underwater? Except for the housing, the ports are the same for any FF kit on the market.

Omino Bianco: blowing out your highlights straight out of the box, no strobes required 😉

With a little creativity and time to spare, you can try it right away. I have shared laundry areas in my building with large sinks, perfect for washing gear and... playing around. 😁😁😁 A plastic sheet with writing on it (I used a soap package), a small tripod, a clip and a piece of wetnotes where I wrote the distance, For my taste, at 7 cm it was not really in focus. From 15 cm up, it was acceptable. Everything was dirty because at that time i was working in a river...

I don't know if you read the ongoing endless debate FF Vs Crop, anyway I will try to stay away from it, but I do not know for how long 😁 Let us say that regardless of the camera and its format, the current mainstream solution is to have a macro lens in the 90/100mm range and a double flip MFO-1 and MFO-3. This solution works with both FF and M43. Just my 2c.