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Last time I sent my GH5 housing to Nauticam for service, it was in that condition. Came back home as brand new and now is starting to resemble that one 😇

Modesty is my strength

This guy would make great use of it https://www.facebook.com/fredimiri.schaschl/videos/852943360375834

My lens 😍

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Yes of course, mine was a curiosity because for video a CMC-1 is really difficult to use and I saw this one has a longer working range.

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I see that no one is responding, so I'll try to put my two cents in. I don't think it depends on the monitor which in theory should replicate what happens on the display (I write in theory because I read that Sony is quite complicated on the subject) but I think it is a “simple” camera setting. In my Panasonic GH5 there is a setting called “Constant preview” that changes the way the camera display behaves with respect to the exposure/shooting settings. This setting has impact especially when the camera is set to manual. Constant preview ON = you see the real exposure on the display Constant preview OFF = you display will have a good exposure/perfect image regardless of your exposure settings. Now, I guess that you have just to find where is this settings on your camera. One image is better than a thousand words:

The same guy who wrote the article with the comparison, published this video. it's a mistery which settings were used and usually they are more inclined to post on social media than explain things. I call them "TX No RX" Transmit but don't not receive https://www.facebook.com/share/r/YdYtV1MrrnUQjdkz/

Sorry to hear about that. I will temporarily pin this post here.

You don't need to add this kind of complication. Just weight everything submerged with a luggage scale. Gopro kit it's so small you could do everything at home.

Does it work with an M43 lens? Do SMC1 & 2 work with M43 lens? 😇

You are brave to discuss these things in a general forum. I appreciate your effort. Videos shot with the lens confirm the distortion at the corners. IMHO with a starting FOV of 155 degrees no wet lens will do. The Osmo Action 4/5 have a narrower "standard" FOV. Perhaps with this FOV the situation changes but we would need to know which FOV was used in all those terrible underwater video. They point out here that the 155 degrees is diagonal and the horizontal FOVs are quite different. https://forum.dji.com/thread-216036-1-1.html Here is a practical comparison. Between standard and wide there is almost no difference. Too bad. This action camera looked the most promising from an underwater point of view.

I don't get your question. There's no difference weighting objects individually or together. Salt and fresh water weight difference is about 2.5%

Caught up in work commitments, I didn't have a chance to respond to this beautiful post of yours that doesn't stop at camera manufacturers but opens the view to the postwar Japanese industry. Very interesting. I had been looking for other insights and found a long article written in Italian on a photography site and it echoes exactly your explanations. This article, too, details the workings of the Japanese industrial model (organized in Keiretsu (系列) pointing to it as a key to Japan's success in the photographic and also in the electronics post war industry. The authors of the article are paranoid about copyright. I post the link here: https://www.nocsensei.com/camera/storia/massimilianoterzi/il-modello-industriale-giapponese-del-dopoguerra-e-lindutria-fotografica/ What struck me most was a table taken from one of the many sources in the bibliography. Basically in the postwar period until the 1970s, the number of new models of German cameras could be counted on the fingers of one hand while the Japanese were flying. Worth mention another explanation on Reddit that I found interesting. Basically, in the postwar period the leading German companies found themselves on the “wrong” side of the wall and this dealt a death blow to that industry. How did Japan come to dominate the camera industry?

I am reopening this old thread because this WE I had the opportunity to reuse my Pana 12-35mm with 6” dome. As much as 12mm (24 FF equivalent) is indeed too narrow for panoramic shots, it turns out to be a killer lens for medium and narrow field shots. the lens is razor sharp. At the same focal length it is much more defined than the 14-42mm + WWL-1B. But returning to the subject of the topic, I confirm that IBIS is completely confused by the FOV change made by WWL-1B. Shooting with the 12-35mm even at 35mm (70mm equiv. FF) is rock steady while my shots with the WWL always have a strange “sway”. In some shots it is almost imperceptible but it is there. Looking back at all my shots taken with the WWL over the years I was in despair: with experience instead of getting better, I was getting worse. Reusing the 12-35mm was a pleasant experience.

Catchphrases in these cases are endless but it is best to avoid them. It is hard not to say banalities. The quality of after sales services and warranty, in theory and I repeat “in theory”, should shelter us from these incidents and we should evaluate them regardless of the quality of the product itself. I mean, I can have a poor product but get an impeccable warranty but I can also have a high quality product that is unfortunately defective (it is in the order of things) and I find out that the after sales service is terrible. It sounds like a triviality but today it is very easy to get feedback on the features and intrinsic quality of a product (dozens of reviews, video tests, and influencers lavishing tags) but it is very difficult to get information on the “what if” i.e., after sales service. So thank you for your report.

Looking forward to read your review. What's the first impression out of water? Controls? Thanks

Given that, unfortunately during the years, I had to polish with Novus several polycarbonate domes of all brands and size, I'll try resume the steps. Novus is the lightest polish product out there, so while removing a scratch requires a lot of elbow grease, the slow process makes it difficult to do damage. The correct sequence is 3 > 2 > (optional) 1. Always. Number 3 l: basically it's the real polish and even the lightest scratch requires a lot of work. Number 2: it is the finishing cream. After passing No. 2 you're done. Number 1: It doesn't do anything, fondamentally it's a simple glass cleaner. If the scratch after #2 is still there. Start again with #3. It is important to use a different cloth for each number and rinse the worked piece after each step. Some cautions: always work on a much larger part of the scratch. If you insist only on the scratch you risk creating a pit, or rather a different curvature, which creates distortions. All my domes had an inner coating. An external coating on a plastic (hence prone to scratches) dome is beyond me but that's it, both Inon and AOI have this design! IMHO I would have sanded the whole lens. Anyway, for an average scratch, working by hand, it really takes a lot of time and patience. Deep scratches don't go away but you can round the edges and make them invisible in water. Then there are the ones you can't do anything. I would be curious to try it with a Dremel and a soft pad but then I never buy it. Every time I do the hard work by hand, I tell myself it will be the last time I scratch the dome.

BW addicted! 😁

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A Waterpixeler dressed with his 1000 pocket vest caught at the custom and forced to throw away his lens

They are five episodes so a lot of stock footage and specific assignment. It's composed from the work of several different cameramen. Clips of the Australian Sea dragon are of Dean Spraakman. He has to pay the bills! 😄 I am not a native speaker so I cannot judge whether he has such an attractive voice

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Here in Italy for that price you get 50Gb or even unlimited. @OneYellowTang yes, you are right but everybody acknowledge that iPhone is considered to be a breaking point. I had a Nokia N85 and was contemplating switching to PalmOS. Everyone was using Blackberrys for work... Returning to photography, was there such a radical change in the past that the players in the field changed? I am thinking of the time when The historical European brands, Leica, Zeiss, Kodak, Agfa were supplanted by Fuji, Nikon, Canon. The Japanese started working as manufacturing plants for Western companies and then replaced them. I don't know if we can point to a precise turning point that can be traced back to technological innovations.