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Yes. I switched to Resolve a few years ago. The best money I ever spent. I paid 200 euros for the 15 Studio version and since then I have reached version 21.x without spending another euro. Lately there are rumors that there might be a new pricing policy, but for now I am happy. It is a steep learning curve but it is worth it. To exploit rhe latest AI features tou need a very powerful computer. Yes, you had a very original idea to combine completely different clips. Unfortunately, here we are a bit too much pixel peepers, while we should discuss creativity more 😄

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Despite the widespread availability of smartphones capable of recording high resolution video, the market for compact and specialized cameras continues to grow. According to data from the analytical firm IDC reported by the South China Morning Post, global sales of these devices increased by 20 percent during the first quarter of the year compared to the previous year. Shipments from manufacturing companies exceeded four million units. Until 2023, the American company GoPro dominated this sector. GoPro originally popularized the concept of wearable cameras designed for hands free recording, starting with a waterproof film model in 2004. Over the last three years, the market share controlled by GoPro dropped from 75 percent to approximately 6 percent. It has been replaced by two Chinese brands, DJI and Insta360. Together, these two companies now control 87 percent of the market. DJI alone accounts for more than half of total global sales. The decline of GoPro is accompanied by severe financial difficulties. In June, the consulting firm PwC raised serious concerns regarding the ability of the company to continue its operations, citing operating losses and negative cash flows. Furthermore, in April, GoPro announced the dismissal of 23 percent of its employees. This followed a previous workforce reduction of nearly 20 percent during 2024. The success of Chinese companies is largely attributed to their direct control over local supply chains. This allows them to customize components at competitive prices. The shift is not solely based on offering cheaper products. Certain GoPro models, such as the HERO13, are priced similarly or lower than competitors like the DJI Osmo Action 6. Instead, DJI and Insta360 have invested heavily in research and development. They equipped their devices with advanced sensors and chips to close the technological gap. Technology review websites such as TechRadar, Gizmodo, and The Verge confirmed that recent devices like the DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro offer superior battery life and better waterproofing compared to GoPro alternatives. DJI and Insta360 adopted an active market strategy by releasing numerous new products each year. GoPro maintained a much slower release cycle. For example, in the 360 degree camera niche, GoPro introduced its first device in 2017 but was quickly surpassed by Insta360. Market data from the Japanese agency BCN shows that DJI and Insta360 controlled 78 percent of the local action camera market in 2025, leaving GoPro with 18.9 percent. In the 360 degree segment, Insta360 holds nearly 60 percent of the market compared to 10 percent for GoPro. The current difficulties are also linked to past strategic errors. In 2015, the GoPro Session compact camera failed due to high pricing. In 2016, the Karma drone experienced critical technical failures during flight. These issues forced GoPro to exit the highly competitive drone market entirely, a sector already dominated by DJI. The rise of these Chinese brands has led to several legal and political disputes. In 2024, GoPro sued Insta360 for patent infringement. The International Trade Commission ruled in favor of GoPro on only one design patent while rejecting claims regarding internal technologies like image stabilization. Consequently, Insta360 can continue selling most of its cameras in the United States. In December, the Federal Communications Commission placed DJI on a list of technological companies considered a national security risk. This measure bans the import and sale of new DJI drones in the US but does not affect existing drones or DJI cameras. Finally, in June, DJI and Insta360 sued each other over design similarities between the Insta360 Luna and the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Full article in Italian here: Il PostGoPro non comanda più nel settore che ha inventatoIn pochi anni è passata dal 75% al 6% nel mercato delle “action camera”, ora dominato da due aziende cinesi

Insta360 X6: July 2026? Insta360 X5: 22 April 2025 Insta360 X4: 16 April 2024 Of course, with this speed of releasing new models (*) that are always imperfect, I wonder what the incentive is, on one hand to develop a professional housing and on the other hand to spend money on the purchase (now the Nauticam housing is a nice paperweight). Third-party manufacturers are struggling with the fact that it is not just an optical problem but a software one. It is hard to think that it can be fixed without a close collaboration with the Insta project team. But when you see that they did not go very far with their housing either, you wonder if we are such a niche that it is not worth the effort and investment. * Yes, we have seen these launch cycles for other photography products and action cameras too, but they are more mature products that you can easily keep using. In fact, one of the big efforts of camera equipment manufacturers is trying to convince their customers that they need the new updated gadget that just came out. It is more and more difficult in a mature market.

F11 is the bare minimum. F13 and F16 are necessary sometimes and who cares about diffraction 😀 On these macro shots a tripod is mandatory. What NLE are you using? On Davinci Resolve, the Midtone details tool makes miracles. It's a micro-contrast tool that sharpens or softens areas with high edge definition. Ciao

I like the editing idea. The blenny watching what happens around it. At least that is how I understood it. Nice. I love videos that are not just simple slideshows of nice pictures. In general, macro images seem very soft to me, maybe too much. The focus almost always seems ok to me. On these little creatures we should always be careful to have the focus on the head, and preferably on the eyes when they have them. Maybe it depends on the aperture used? Here you really need F11 and beyond. And if you are at 50/60p you must be at least at 1/100 or 1/125 shutter speed. If you want to get a darker background, raise the shutter even more. The 180-degree rule is not so important underwater. Well done.

They are amazing. It's the so called Golden Kelp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminaria_ochroleuca) and it's present on both shores of the strait but it's deep. It starts form 65m/213ft. The colony on the Sicily shore is the best (the ones filmed in this doc). Roberto Rinaldi filmed the Laminaria with his Canon C500 MKII. P.S. A tragic note. The researcher speaking in the video is Lorenzo Bramanti. One of the top experts on mesophotic systems in the Mediterranean and a researcher at the French CNRS. Unfortunately, Lorenzo died suddenly at the age of 52 in his home in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, at the end of June 2026. https://reporterre.net/Lorenzo-Bramanti-chercheur-et-defenseur-des-forets-animales-marines-est-mort

Out of curiosity: what's the meaning of shooting @240fps?

Do you have some clips showing the focus problem?

Close-ups at 0:41 and 1:41 are shot with the Inon G165.

IIRC this video of Vincenzo Striano was shot with the Inon G165. Try to reach him on YouTube, I'm sure Vincenzo will be glad to give some feedback.

I agree that in the hands of a professional it can get interesting effects, but in general having a wide lens and not being able to focus beyond 2.5 meters is a big problem. Inon and AOI will be forced to redesign their lenses, or this Mission 1 will be forgotten in a short time. The swan song of a company on the brink of despair. In the coming months we will see if these companies want to invest money in this project. The situation with close-up lenses is interesting. I have an AOI UCL-03 that I used for a project. Looking back, I should have bought the Inon, which is much more flexible. The AOI has a focus range of 4 to 8 cm, while the Inon has 10 to 25 cm. It is much more versatile. If the reduction of the focus range also applies to these lenses, my AOI becomes unusable. Inon, who knows. With the GoPro 11 I had to use a brush where I had marked the focus range with colored tape. I used it for time-lapses of gastropod mollusks.

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Kintsuglue or Sugru.

Unfortunately all those devices (using the 555 timer) work only if the powered device is on. So, in this case if you shut down the camera the keep alive device doesn't send the pulse. As tou wrote he could connect the keep alive on another port but it need a minimum resistance load as a small led or a resistor. Edit: Another test to be done is using the camera sleep functionality instead of powering it off. """Maybe"""" the small amount of current drawn is enough to keep the power bank awake.

Impossible to know. I have everything Nauticam and I use their lubricant. I only noticed that Nauticam one looks exactly the same i use on my O2 cleaned regs and rebreather.

In 15 years, I have never had to buy any grease for O-rings. Every housing and every Nauticam port comes with a tube inside, and you need so little of it that they are practically infinite. IIRC, in the past, at some trade show, I even scrounged a couple of tubes from the Nauticam importer by threatening him 😁 Having done technical diving for over 20 years, I can confirm that it must be a lube with a percentage of PTFE. Nauticam lube is practically identical to oxygen-compatible lube . Christolube is terrible because it leaves dry residue, unlike other apparently unbranded types that I use.

A dreamlike setting... Very nice video. Thanks for sharing

Hei @atus any news on your Med BW?

Are you going to add them to the store?

But at that point you have more compact capable cameras expressly made for content creators with proper af, microphone and I/Os

And it helps a lot spending money 😁

It is quite a problem. Action cameras have fixed focus and everything works perfectly because the sensor is tiny, but even with a one-inch sensor, issues start to appear and so manufacturers make compromises. The matter reminds me of what happened with the old Insta with the one-inch sensor years ago. YouTubers noticed that they couldn't take selfies at arm's length because with the one-inch sensor, the minimum focus distance had been set to about one meter. To solve the problem, someone even came up with the idea of adding a small lens attachment to allow focusing at less than one meter. Probably the design of the new GoPro lens creates problems for the wet lenses currently on the market, and who knows, maybe they will have to be redesigned specifically for this camera. Strange that the same thing doesn't happen with the old one-inch Insta360 too or maybe it's there but nobody notice it. Here the old video: