Davide DB

Welcome aboard Joerg! A lot of ex wetpixelers here 🙂 Terrific photo of the eternal ice!

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Thank you Reefrunner and welcome aboard! I hope you will complete your renaissance here 😉

If you search on the net, you will find that it's the most wanted part. Unfortunately you are forced to buy a new housing. Is it an original housing? A possible solution is using the "skeleton door" which comes with some original Gopro housing kits. It's the back door (only the frame) which allow you to use the touch screen. This skeleton door has the same gasket that could be used as spare part. IDK what the gasket is used for. Good luck

Are you in a village with a diving center? Do you recommend it? Several of my friends told me about the same problem with waste and especially plastic. And unfortunately where it seems to be not there is because it is discreetly burned

Marelux housing USA price 3400 USD Europe price 4000 Euro Ouch!

Has anyone ever tried it? I read that it has a 90° FOV but nothing more. As with their wide angle sibling they don't give full information. Does anyone know the focus range? https://www.aoi-uw.com/aoi-ucl-03.html

Nauticam presented its housing for the Canon R5 II. Pre-orders are now open. https://www.nauticam.com/collections/mirrorless-il-camera-housings/products/na-r5ii-housing-for-canon-eos-r5ii-camera

Terrific idea!!! Thanks Dave!

Okay let's take stock of the various options available. Closed-cell PVC For recreational diving it must have a density of at least 40 kg/m3 (2.5 lb/ft3). In underwater photo stores it is quite expensive and in bulk it is cheap but sells only in sheets of at least 1 sq m. Possible solution find free scraps in boatyards. It's commonly uses for boat deck structures. Fishing net floats These are also mostly made from closed-cell pvc. For recreational diving, more or less all are fine. They are really inexpensive but usually ugly. All pvc foam can be cut out, wooed, painted and drilled to your liking. Just a short while ago I was telling to a friend 😉 that I was going to buy them from a big Italian manufacturer and instead they sent me a box of second-rate ones for free (they sell them by the hundreds in bags). They are perfect. These are for trawl nets and last up to 250 meters. You can adjust the central hole via a holesaw. Then commercially there are ready-made floats for underwater photography. The ubiquitous Stix or cheaper floats from other brands. For example the ones from 10Bar that are also very stylish.

I tried with similar floats but at 30/40 meters my camera was an anchor I tried Stix floats and they were good up to 40 m, below they crashed like marshmallows 🙂

Hello, Damn imperial measures!!! Maybe some members are more familiar with the imperial system than I am, but from my calculations these are super soft and cost a lot too. If you haven't found them free as scrap. you better buy the Stix or the 10Bar floats that are very cheap.

With such a small sensor there is little to do except perhaps act with computational photography algorithms. I would say that the latest Insta Ace Pro and DJI have much more advanced NR algorithms than the Gopro. However when you raise the ISO and the noise reduction algorithm comes into play, you lose a lot of detail. People's faces in the tunnel for example. Watch these videos in full screen maybe on a 4k monitor. In this video the ISOs have been locked at 500 emulating what the human eye sees: In the channel then there are lots of examples with the latest action cameras. From my experience, in the Mediterranean a red/cyan filter works up to 12 meters, maybe 15 with a mirrorless with a decent sensor. Then it's also a matter of taste of course. Regarding the Mediterranean. Sure, there are greener and bluer areas, but when it comes to green or blue water filters, the Mediterranean is always considered quite green precisely because of the characteristic type of plankton. Perhaps some spots such as the Aeolian or Pelagian islands are exceptions. For example in the Tuscan archipelago even when you have 30+ meters of visibility, when you do CC you will always find yourself removing a more or less green dominant. Where do you dive?

You don't want to throw away a Keldan, do you? What model is it? Once you repair the flooded one, if you have a pair, they will be very easy to sell. They are very rare in the used market, and there is a reason for that. BTW I didn't know there were vacuum valve lights. I think it's unique. It depends on your use but if you have a Keldan CRI you will find huge differences in color correction in post. Impossible to compare them with the BigBlue ones that don't even have constant output. Again, they are the cheapest on the market for a reason. I see they are used mostly as model lights to enlight caves and wrecks.

I understand your enthusiasm but we have a specific thread for this lens. Could we just use that? 🤪

Yes but * indicates the best quality option and probably the behemoth 230 mm is.

Did you already choose your new rig?

I'm sorry to hear what happened 😞 Did you try to write directly to Keldan? Keldan batteries have a proprietary circuit showing runtime and time to full charge, so it depends if the circuit is still working. Time ago a got battery replaced here in Italy but the circuit was ok.

I wrote Kraken and Weefine about their 7" monitors. No replies from them 😶 I don't understand why all these new monitors (also SUPE) are depth rated to 80m. Once it was 100m. This breaks the deal for me. Another strange spec is their weight underwater: Kraken writes 2140g on land/560g underwater for both models 5.5" and 7". Very strange indeed and it's a lot. Anyway their lights are good.

Of course Dave, that's why I wrote that "it depends on the scratch." Sometimes it goes away completely, sometimes it is visible to the naked eye but the polishing operation rounds the edges and in water it is no longer visible. Other times you have to throw it away but in my experience I always happened to be in the first two cases with very good results. That's why I would have tried before changing it. Now maybe we could help him understand how to replace the dome. I have no idea.

Welcome to this new community! You have come a long way to get here! This forum is just for introductions. For split shots, they were debated a short time ago. You can continue here:

Hi Nick, Welcome aboard!

It depends on how the scratches are deep but believe me, polishing a polycarbonate dome is really easy. Just try once it come back.

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