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Bertrand Loyer's film was shot in 2015 on an ocean buoy between France and Corsica. It was the first time it was filmed alive (and not dying or dead) in its environment. they encountered several Giant oarfish. Some had their tails cut off after the anal slit, while others, more complete, measured up to 9 m! The footage is exceptional. The sounds and music, based on the wind instrument Duduk, impart a very spooky note to the images. Giant oarfish apart, there is a shot of a white shark in the Mediterranean Sea. I never figured out if it is stock footage or was taken while diving under the buoy. French, English, Spanish language with tons of subtitles, enjoy your viewing

I have watched all the videos and also the tutorials. You can also interrogate me. 👮🏼‍♂️ What I got out of it: Blackwater video seems to be more difficult than photography. It is important to be a diver with good skills. Keeping the critters in focus is really a challenge: MF with focus peaking or latest PDAF tech. Exposure challenge: Zebra stripes help me! If I think back to my difficulty in shooting small animals in the current in the daytime blue, I think I would not be able to do better than the videos I have seen. But I can still say in no uncertain terms that, Aquatilis aside and maybe one other, they are all terrible. They are all burned out or out of focus and ruined by backscatter. For many of them it is not possible to trace the cameras used. The video tutorial seems to contradict the article linked above. It says to use lights between 4K and 10K lumens. Basically really bright lights while didn't understand what it says about focus light placement. Then looking at the tutorial example video brings to mind the saying "do as I say but don't do as I do" 🙂 It made a lot more sense to me to not use too strong lights because you lose the reflected luminescence of many organisms and then the distances are short. It seems to me that the recommendations of macro shots and not wide angle shots apply more. With fairly concentrated lights only around the subject you avoid illuminating the entire portion of water between the lens and the subject limiting backscatter. A low power medium wide focus light would help to not lose the critter into the dark. I read that many divers use a handheld torch to scout critters. Of course I am thinking out loud: until you try it in the water it is hard to know the truth. I am waiting for the tests of @bghazzal 😜

Yes, Puccio says it in his video and he swaps the lens on the two mounting systems.

How do you check the correction applied by the variable filter underwater? Through the GoPro display? 🧐 BTW i see that the variable filter is marked EOL on Inon site

Hi Elias, It's there. Tap or click on the three vertical dots on the right near the author. Let me know

On the tutorial section there's a thread on DIY receipts

Hello Isaac! Welcome!

I stumbled upon this film, short, commercial. I don't know what to call it. Essentially a Sony commercial for its latest cinema camera. The Sony Burano. The director and director of photography is Emmanuel Lubezki (three-time Oscar winner for cinematography). The photography is very documentary. All very nice but the underwater shots left me a bit puzzled. Surely it was a stylistic choice to leave the images absolutely without contrast? Sony, in the comments, says that the whales were raising a lot of sablefish and the water was murky. Mah. There is also a behind the scenes. for us divers, the video operator is Marcelo Johan Ogata AKA BugDreamer. Nauticam housing seems to be the latest universal housing.. BTS

In anticipation of completing filming this winter and (perhaps) capturing the elusive spawning behavior of these increasingly rare Mediterranean trout (Salmo [trutta] macrostigma), my buddy assembled a small video with some of the footage taken last year. Actually we have hours of footage with trouts being trouts 😄 All the footage and interviews will be used to produce a documentary on the population of these trout in the Fibreno, a river south of Rome, Italy. We are not the BBC natural history Unit, so all the underwater trout clips are a mix of GoPro 5 and 11. As you can see, in these conditions there's no difference between a Gopro 5 and a Gopro 11. Only The final shot of the fry is taken with a GH5 and a Leica 45mm.

hahahah what a figure! Despite of the smaller FOV I see really bad corners there... But... wait! It's RX100M5 😄

Terrific video and trip report, thanks! I see they offer trips in different period of the season. What's the best? Ciao

There would actually be an action cam that on paper was intended for "professionals". But it was ruined by Sony itself who never believed in it. The first version cost 1,000 euros and was worse than a Gopro. With the second version they added features but they are still behind even though they have come down to milder advice with the price. but it still costs more than a GoPro. I never had a chance to try it out. From the specs it is interesting that it has a small FOV (24 mm) and linear lens and even Autofocus. Accessories cost like a child in college 😄 https://www.sony-asia.com/electronics/cyber-shot-compact-cameras/dsc-rx0m2

I recall perfectly that Laurent Ballesta was using the EMWL on his Seacam housing in one of his documentaries.

Wow terrific tutorials! Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask! You want to arrive prepared for your blackwater. You're a guy who does his homework 😄

I don't have much experience with gopros a few family vacations apart. As I said I started using them as video traps for trouts. We have several GP11s a couple of old GP5s. Well I have to tell you that two GP5/GP11s placed side by side in murky water 1 meter deep on a tripod eventually have less image difference than you would expect between 6 generations of cameras. We need 50p and so the GP5 films in 2.7K@50p and the GP11 films in 4K @50p with the GoPro Labs FW and bitrate at maximum. Yet once I rescale the 2.7K to 4K with Topaz or Resolve and apply color grading, you struggle to see the difference between the two. Of course the GP11's stabilization is impressive but for my use on the tripod I keep it off to save battery. What I find really annoying in water is the distortion/loss of quality at the corners despite using the linear FOV. That's why I was interested in the wet lens. Don't get me wrong, probably under ideal conditions there is a world of difference but under less than ideal conditions the small sensor struggles even after all these years.

Truly a remarkable career. You are perfect for this community even though you are from the matrix 😄 Welcome aboard!!!

We list here all the 3D printing projects for our toys that have been made or tested by our members. Given the huge amount of 3D printed projects on the net that often do not yield the desired results, we will add here only the working and tested projects. Housings Nauticam NA-Z7 Housing Conversion for Nikon Z6/Z7 II Plugs & Connectors Fibre Optic Cables? Make your own.... Fiberglass Connector Fisheye Fix S100 Fiber optic connector attachment Connector for 3 mm inner diameter POF fiber optic cable Floating Arms Float arm construction in 3D printing Zoom and Focus Gears Adapter for Nauticam focus gears for the Canon 8-15mm and the Tokina 10-17mm fisheyes for use on MFT with 1x glassless adapter Nauticam Zoom Gear for Nikon 16-35mm lens (see also this post) Nauticam Zoom Gear for Nikon 24-50mm Z lens (see also this post) Nauticam Zoom Gear for Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 II ASPH Mega O.I.S. Strobes Snoot for Inon Z330 (small version) Snoot with a diaphragm for a Retra flash Diffuser for Inon Z330 strobe Backscatter MF-1 and MF-2 strobe power knob modification Modular Bumper and Macro Reduction Ring system for Backscatter HF-1 strobes Tripods flexitray adaptor with integrated Swiss arca plate Caps Nauticam N120 Housing Male Cap Nauticam N120 Port Female Cap 67mm Cap with a Nauticam Logo Nauticam N100 Port Female Cover (Rear Port Cap) Semi Hard Port Cover for Nauticam 180mm Dome Other Parts NP-F Battery Holder Holder for Nauticam Hand Pump for Vacuum Valve Action Cam Mount for Long Clamp Carbonarm 1" Ball Mount for Suunto EON Core - Dive Computer

Which model?

please, don't tell me you are the guy who designed that 12-35 mm zoom gear 🙃 Jokes apart, it would be nice having a post here with all open sourced zoom and focus gears that have been proven to work. A list of links on Thingiverse or other platforms accompanied with some notes from our members...

I wouldn't be so extreme but certainly getting one that works is not an easy thing to do. For my WWL I am forced to use a Panasonic 14-42 mm. An EOL piece of plastic that can be found used even for 80 euros. The nauticam zoom gear costs twice as much as the lens. There is clearly something wrong with it 🙂

I'm with Dave. Years ago I printed, through a friend, a zoom gear for the Lumix 12-35 mm taken from Thingiverse. It was on its third revision with several positive comments. On land it looked ok but in the housing it got stuck several times ruining two dives for me. The wrong movement even managed to move the camera body out of the housing plate. Some buttons pressed themselves and the camera frozen. I tried printing it with different materials and then threw it away. Effectively looking back at the original Nauticam they were like night and day. Nevertheless I think the original gears are a real steal and finally I bought two gears from https://www.deepshots.co.uk/pages/deepshots-gear-information They used to print them for different brands while now I see they have them for Olympus and Lumix only. If you are lucky to find the model for your lens, they are a great compromise. They don't cost a kidney and work great.

Wow! Looking forward to see some underwater photos of the Highlands Ciao

A smart solution 😄

I discovered later that a Norwegian biologist is conducting a citizen science campaign on these critters.