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One of these days I will update our DIYpedia with the latest projects.

Those were the times of the legendary cracked GH2. Like a tuned scooter. I never investigated the Panasonic custom modes C1, C2 , C3, C4 I think tou can have different AF types but not fixed focus points. regarding my sad story, today it is impossible not to notice it. Focus peaking for video and for photos the various AF modes show you exactly what it focused on.

It's strange because we have a limit of 10 photos per post. Maybe @RichN can check it.

Welcome aboard Francesco! Ciao

A drop in the ocean but definitely a good news

I am sorry I sold that lens and the minidome several years ago. The quality was great, but for video it was really not very usable except few cases. I still remember its MFD and ability to focus on the dome and even inside it. Once I went for a dive in a mountain lake with 40 meters of visibility. From the bottom I had filmed all the houses in the village and the trees. AMAZING!!! I went back home all excited, only to find out that the camera had focused always and only on a tiny speck of dust on the inner surface of the dome. Mountain legends say that on foggy nights the curses of a stranger can still be heard echoing in the valleys. P.S. No, I did not notice it on the small display given the huge depth of field of the FE and at that time I still missed the wonders of focus peaking.

I understood that you were talking about the housings and not the cameras only from the prices 😇

Look, right now a GH5 kit is an expensive doorstop. This is why I tell you that you can negotiate a great price on the ones for sale. Lenses and ports instead keep their price quite well. This is the reason why the dream of a universal housing attracts so many people. If I were you I would look for a used GH6/7 housing. There is a Spanish one for sale for a long time. Ah my budget!!! For Nauticam the 12-35mm and the cheaper Lumix 7-14mm both use the 6 inch 15cm polycarbonate port. I sold the 7-14 and I have the rest. I can assure you that edge quality is perfect even at F5.6 for the 12-35mm while for the 7mm at F8. I rarely used it at 7mm for moving shots. The perspective is too strange. The Olympus 7-14mm F2.8 is bulky and more expensive. IMHO it doesn't worth. So let us say that the 16 cm Easydive port is ok if placed correctly. My doubt is that from the photos they look like ports with an almost perfect portion of a hemisphere of the same diameter as the port while my 6" dome is a portion of a much larger sphere. Regarding the monitor. I repeat that SDI is a solution seen only on Easydive and cinema housings. But the whole world uses M16 and M24 bulkheads. Impossible to buy a normal monitor and mount it on that housing without modifying it. From the photos I also see that they use what looks like a Fisher connector similar to those used by rebreather monitors. A unique solution in the world. By the way one of the most problematic connectors for maintenance. The BlackMagic Assist 5 inch is the smallest of the series and seems to have only 300 Nits of brightness. Ok for deep dives but absolutely insufficient for shallow dives just a few meters deep even in the Mediterranean. For my old 500 nits old monitor, fora project in few metersof water I had to build a full sunshade 20 cm long. Now I have a Weefine WED-5 Pro that can be seen even without a sunshade. The new generation of displays starts from 1000 Nits. I think the housing for that monitor is also a custom Easydive. I am not aware of any commercial product for that monitor. Let alone with a Fisher connection.

I try to reply below. No. A Nauticam housing is guaranteed for 100 m and upon request there is a spring kit for 150 meters. I took all my housings well beyond 100 meters without any problems. Only with the GH5 I had some issues with the BB focus lever which no longer worked below 80 meters. Curiously, two friends with the same housing had the same problem as well. We noticed that Nauticam designs housings for 100 meters, but then they do not test them individually, and every now and then some spring does not work. Nauticam wanted us to send the housings to HK for service and possibly install the 150 meter kit for a significant cost. We got very angry because if the housing is guaranteed for 100 meters it must work full stop. Holy Pietro Cremone intervened and replaced under warranty the springs of the BBFocus lever and other buttons. However, we are talking about rare problems, and the Italian distributor is really reliable and very kind. Regarding the kit for sale. Are you talking about a kit in Rome with the BlackMagic video assist monitor? 😇 A 16 inch port does not exist I think. Maybe 16 cm/160 mm. I see that they have ports of 9/12/16/24 cm. Most of them look like domes. I doubt they work well with rectilinear wide angle lenses, and if you shoot video, I do not think you will use an 8mm fisheye. It might be fine for a static frontal shot with the subject in the center, but panning or side tracking shots cause seasickness. Which lens do you plan to use? We are spending a lot of money so the combination lens/port must give you the best results. Curious about these ports, I played a bit with their automatic lens/port combination choice feature, and based on my experience and the knowledge base here on the forum, there are several things that do not add up for me. Too many combinations are accepted as good. According to them, a 7-14mm or an 8-18mm extreme rectilinear lenses can be used interchangeably with 160 and 125mm ports using the same extension ring. Even if not recommended, they also suggest 95mm ports 🤔 In FF terms, we are talking about a 14-28 and a 16-35mm. Nauticam recommends a 6"/150mm acrylic port for the 7-14mm and a 180mm glass port for the 8-18mm. Our FF friends are forced to use a 230mm or hold their nose with a 180mm. Yet if I change housing and choose FF Sony A1 and the 16-35mm, it suggests 160mm and 125mm ports to me. There is something I am missing. Maybe @Chris Ross can help me. https://www.easydive.it/en/accessories/ports/cristal-glass Regarding the monitor, a SDI monitor is perhaps perfect for a professional perhaps, but with an SDI output it has no way to mount any of the most common monitors currently on the market. In short, a housing like this is difficult to resell except to another lover of the brand and only in Italy.

Ciao Alessio, first of all welcome to the forum. I am a long time Panasonic user. Now I use a "vintage" GH5 and a GH5 MKII in Nauticam housings. From the video point of view it is one of the most long lasting cameras I have ever seen. Except for the AF, it is still very usable. Given the incredible success of the GH4 and GH5, it seemed that Panasonic was destined to stay in the underwater market, but the failure after not introducing phase detection AF in the GH6 brought it back into oblivion. On the other hand the GH7 is still one of the best video cameras due to its completeness of features and codecs. It even records in Prores Raw internally. Unfortunately the magical moment has passed. Returning to your question... If you want to buy a used GH5MKII, there are many opportunities around. Complete kits with Nauticam housing. IMHO some prices are crazy but you can negotiate and I think the sellers will come to their senses when the kit stays unsold for months. The choice of lenses and ports depends on your taste. What do you shoot? In what environments? Regarding the Easydive housing if you search here on the forum you will see that there are practically zero results. Ask yourself a question and give yourself an answer 😉 In the father of all forums, WetPixel, there are a couple of interesting threads that summarize the pros and cons of these housings but if you do not have an old account it is not possible to read them, nor to sign up. It is abandoned to itself. https://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?/topic/63744-anyone-with-experience-with-easydive-leo3-wi-housing/ https://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?/topic/66750-easydive-leo-3-wi/ Personally, even if it is an Italian housing, it never convinced me for video. At your fingertips you only have the most important functions but when I checked you couldn't have the Back button focus function. Out of the water is heavy and it is inevitably bulky: it's the price to pay for being able to load a Sony A6500 or a nikon Z8. The display could be very far from the back and you could not mount a commercial external hdmi monitor wirhout a pricy hdmi-sdi converter because by default they foresee a SDI bulkhead only. Very odd. Regarding their lights... They are really well made but I have never seen one around except in Italy. Again, is there a reason for this? What do I need adjustable color temperature for? The color temperature needs to be around 5500K full stop. They have the advantage of having adjustable light intensity via a dial and not through the damned buttons. The shape is particular but in water they weigh 400 grams. What if I want to make them neutral independently of the float arms? Good luck.

Hi Tim, Yes, impressive but video is not mine but from Kolari, a well known company famous for oplf filters and various camera services. Ciao

A lot of experts on how to empty wallets and credit cards 😁

So M43 is still the most compact. A 12-35mm requires a 6"/150mm dome for stellar results. Even a 8-18mm requires a 180mm dome while in FF a 230mm is required for best results.

Which lens did you use? Ciao

I am posting it here because at the moment it is only a rumor. A piece of news however that if confirmed would make many underwater photographers happy. The source on X is considered very very reliable. There are no dates. We will see.

Sorry, no. On WWL you would use a 14-42mm. I'm not expert about other wet lens. An Oly 9-18mm (not very good) or a Pana 8-18mm are wide already (16-35mm) and they use a 180mm dome.

Yes, @Architeuthis post explained it vwery well. it depends.

I have a back-button focus even on my coffe machine BTW

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I use the 45mm for video. Qualitys stellar but the AF is really slow even on normal shots on land. The 30mm is way better even if it reaches its max magnification on glass. IIIRC it uses the same port of the 45mm.

Hi Monika, Welcome onboard! Ciao