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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

OM-1 MK2 + PL 45mm F2.8 macro (90mm FF equiv.) Nikon Z5II + Nikkor 105mm F2.8 macro OM-1 MK2 + Olympus 60mm F2.8 macro (120mm FF equiv.) Nikon Z5II + Nikkor 105mm F2.8 macro Play your game: https://camerasize.com/compact/#918.930,946.991,ha,t

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

@Adventurer could you show us which kind of photos are you getting with your system? I'm very curious about this Ivanoff system

Actually this is the first camera without insane RAW data rates. Raw data rate is comparable with the compressed H.264 and 265. Other raw flavors (Red and Prores) are around 1Gbps. Hence it's the first time that a raw is a viable option for some problematic shoots without taking a mortgage for media cards. Sony FX5 Codec & Data Rate Breakdown X-OCN LT (16-bit RAW): ~389 Mbps (at 24 fps) — highest quality raw option available internally on the FX5. X-OCN C1 (16-bit RAW): ~289 Mbps (at 24 fps) — balanced intermediate raw compression. X-OCN C2 (16-bit RAW): ~232 Mbps (at 24 fps) — maximum raw compression tier designed for smaller files. XAVC-I (All-I H.264): ~384 Mbps (4K 24p equivalent) — traditional heavy intra-frame codec. XAVC HS (H.265 Long-GOP): Varies down to lower distribution bitrates (typically 100–200 Mbps range depending on user settings) — significantly smaller footprint for non-RAW delivery.

Custom WB could be a problem shooting in H.265/264 but in internal 16-bit linear X-OCN RAW video allows you to change and fine-tune white balance non-destructively in post without losing image quality.

Basically the only advantage of these lens is the reduced minimum focus but the WA lenses (Inon 165 and AOI UWL-03 become useless for infinity focus). If there is a good subject within the focus range (the jellyfish in the Nando's video) the blur/OOF effect could be nice but if your main subject is out of the focus range or you are simply panning and truck on the reef the effect is catastrophic. Guys, your tests are valuable and interesting. Please keep posting but we try our best to keep the forum slick and clean so that our member can find easily the content they are looking for. @BeppePADI please do not create a new topic for every new post. I'm continuously merging topics. We have this topic for all with and without wet lenses comparison. @Nando Diver I moved your latest posts here: that thread was about GoPro Lab fw and not wet lenses. Go Dive! 🤿

basically the AOI lens behaves like the Inon. In your video the out of focus effect is much less visible due to the bad viz while in the @BeppePADI video here it's clear thank to the better viz.

IMHO useless for real WA shots

In the last iterations, no. All new monitors are 1000+ NITS and they have sunshades.

Which model is it? A friend of mine bought two of latest hi-power Sea Frogs. Everything ok so far but we will see in the long run. I've seen the more expensive Weefine equivalent and the mechanical quality is gorgeous as my monitor but I didn't have the chance to test their light underwater.

Don't you have a clip at infinity focus?

And what did you change?