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Yes, competition is always good!

I have the Lumix 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 II OIS paired with WWL-1B. Gorgeous at 14mm and really soft from about 35mm to 42mm. IDK if it's the lens itself or the WWL. Great combo for video work anyway.

It's a macro port too. Old but quite unique. Nick Hope, a glorious WP member, used it for most of his underwater videos. His videos have more visualizations than the BBC' ones

Did you try to take some photos on land with and without a flash? Check the electronic contacts on the lens.

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I would be really curious to try it with the PanaLeica 45mm macro. I'm currently doing a project, mostly macro, in murky water, but in the same dive, I also find subjects that are 20/30 cm large. I'm diving with the Pana 14-42mm with a flat port and the CMC-2 mounted on a flip adapter. This way, in the same dive, I can do both moderate macro and medium range. Theoretically, it seems like a great compromise, but in practice, I am hating this setup. Yesterday, I was filming a 3 cm blenny playing hide-and-seek in tunnels dug into the coral. With the CMC-2, I could film it in detail. Then, I wanted to take some wider shots to show the context the blenny was moving in. The 14-42mm zoomed to 42mm with the CMC-2 has a focus range of 77–124 mm. Even if I reduce the zoom and moved further away, I immediately go out of the focus range. But if I take off the CMC-2, the 14-42mm has a huge (MFD. Underwater behind a flat port at 42mm, the MFD goes up almost to 50 cm. Basically, I have a "hole" in the shots I can get—from too tight to too wide. Ah, I know, I can't have everything in life, but an MFO-3 and an EMWL, yes I can! 😂😂😂

Another option: Try contact Saga. They have a lot of Frankenstein adapters on their site and I know for sure they make custom ports/adapters.

H-265 it's not a viable codec for sharing. Use H-264. On the Deliver page, on the top left you can choose between several presets (ready made export settings). Try YouTube or others but not H-265. If it doesn't work, it's not a Resolve export problem.

Hi Kristin, Are you using Davinci Resolve? Which preset? I've never used FB Messenger, sorry.

I discovered that Nauticam updated its M43 port chart including MFO-1, MFO-3 and SMC-3. These new lens are listed for both Pana 45mm and Oly 90mm. Google DocsN85 Micro Four Thirds System 2025-08-27.pdf

How do you insulate it?

Wow, what a small world. Don't tell me you got certified in Baia? Maybe at Subaia?

Hi Mike, Welcome aboard!!!

Yes, i would say a sidemount pouch is perfect but quite expensive Edit: cheap neoprene lens pouch:

@Gmsalterego you got from @eocean-eu the same reply as mine, plus a nice explicative image.

Yes, most of people believe that a 8K 360 camera is a real 8K after 3D reframing 🤡 Yes and no. They are using clips from the 360 to get 4K frames. Original reframe resolution is 2.7K at best, and as you wrote, it decreases narrowing the FOV. In the meantime I read Insta360 and DJI forums and I confirm that their software upscale the video internally. As you see in this (and other) review , in good light conditions the results are simply amazing. I dare you to notice that the UHD clips in this video are upscaled. The math applied to silicon has made a lot of progress lately ;) So, if these cameras are able to get these amazing results on land and such terrible ones underwater, I wonder if it's a problem with the geometry of the housing or even a problem with the upscaling algorithm itself (screwed clip metadata?). When I played with Topaz AI, I remember there are different algorithms optimized for the type of image you're processing.

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Basically unusable for any work except some social network like... I saw the new dive housing: https://store.insta360.com/product/x5-invisible-dive-case-pro?_sc=NzMzMDM3MCMxMTc1MzIy They write: Insta360 X5 automatically recognizes the Invisible Dive Case Pro and enters Dive Case Mode, meaning you can start creating in moments. It's like they have a different stitching algorithm while underwater. And probably it have some impact on image rendering somehow. Total newbie here. The actual resolution of a 2D video exported from a 360-degree camera is significantly lower than the camera's total resolution. It depends mainly on the Field of View (FOV) selected during the "reframing" process. In simple terms, the final 2D video is a "crop" of the 360-degree video sphere. This is because the total resolution of a 360 camera (for example, 5.7K or 8K) is distributed over an entire 360-degree sphere. When you export a 2D video, you are only selecting a small portion of this sphere, so the resolution will be lower. An X5 has an 8K total 360 resolution, which I don't believe reaches a true 4K 2d frame even with a wide FOV. So, since it's possible to export 4K clips, the software does an internal upscaling. This process seems to be strongly impacted by the distortion that occurs in the underwater housing. I'm just thinking out loud here, trying to explain myself this drop in quality in underwater footage, which is absolutely not present in land-based footage. There are excellent examples of its use alongside traditional cinema cameras in many situations with no loss of quality. Looking forward to see some clip shot with this new housing.

Welxome aboard Lewis! We hope you really enjoy the forum. Ciao

Images are really soft (euphemism). Completely useless except maybe documentation. Maybe the video is a little bit better?

OUCH THAT IS A MALWARE FOR SURE!

I couldn't agree more. With a scene lit halfway between artificial and ambient light, you'll never be able to balance it all (with an action camera). So, it's either full artificial light or nothing. How deep were you? Since you dive often, try following our advice on a dive 😇

I didn't get it. It didn't show me the classic privacy banner either.

Yes, I remember the Nauticam housing for the Blackmagic well. However, if Nauticam makes a housing for this camera, I would definitely study the camera manuals. It only has three function buttons, and we'll have to see what functions can be assigned and the overall ergonomics: White Balance, Autofocus Lock, Apertures, and ISO. I read that it has a built-in shutter angle, but some reviews talked about certain limitations with so few buttons. We'll see. Another aspect to understand when the camera ends up in the hands of real users is the quality of the various available codecs. Right now, the shilltubers are all over the RedCode RAW codec. Gerald Undone's review claimed that the files produced by the camera in Nraw, H.264, and H.265 suck, especially compared to the same files produced by the Z-series cameras, and currently the only usable codec is RedCode. I hope it's not true, or that Nikon fixes everything with subsequent upgrades. Nikon has been very good with the updates for the Z series. One second of 6K@60p footage takes up about 470MB, and a 320 GB CF Express card is full in 28 minutes. Okay, it's RAW, but I'd like to have the option to film with a lighter file type when needed. I agree with this 100%. Nikon has all the right cards to seriously shake up the video market, and that's a very positive thing. The price of this camera is also extremely aggressive. $2200 for a camera that films in RedCode is a dream.