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Hi Pekka, welcome aboard. We need a motivational tutorial on freezing waters! 🙂

Another detail from the @Puccio Distefano review: INON and AOI shares the same locking mechanism so the lens are interchangeable between them. But the AOI kit has a mount designed for the original GoPro housing. The box contains different brackets for GoPro housings 7, 8 and 9/10/11/12 (they have the same dimensions). IMHO, for video I would choose AOI. I find the superview FOV unusable for video. A small panning and the angle distortion makes you sick. Who uses a fisheye for video?

Hi Chris, I'm glad you joined us! Ciao

Welcome aboard then!

Hi Suzan, We are honored to have you with us. For the pictures, as you prefer. You have two options: As @RichN wrote, You can upload them directly here. If you have the photos on an external site (some have them ready on services like Flickr) you can link them through the link icon in the toolbar of the pane where you write the post. Since you are such an expert on the Blue heron Bridge 😉 I'll point you directly to this post:

Welcome among us Zlati, If you would like, you could inspire and educate through an article about a diving trip of your own.

Hi Pietro welcome aboard! I look forward to see your favorite photo of 2023 or maybe a fish face shot 😉

On his YouTube channel, our member @Puccio Distefano has several videos comparing the two current "state of the art" wet lenses for GoPro's. INON UFL G-140 SD AOI UWL-03 From his tests he did not find any substantial differences between the two lenses and the AOI cost about half thr Inon. the slight difference in FOV between the two lenses depends on the GoPro 12's automatic stabilization, which cuts slightly more. The second video has footage more indicative of lens quality. Although it is in Italian, YouTube does an excellent job of automatically translating the subtitles. Comparison of the INON and AOI wide-angle lenses for our GoPro underwater This video is in Italian language but you can easily add English subtitles with automatic translation. GoPro 12 with and without AOI UWL-03 As you can see, the edges are significantly better with the lens. In my experience the difference appears with very close objects. P.S. I believe that both companies would need a marketing consultant ( provided with a baseball bat) attending all meetings where product names are decided.

Ciao Scipione welcome onboard

Do you need it exclusively for split shots?

Welcome onboard Olivier! The French team increases!

Actually for 70 dollars I thought they would give me the frameless mask as well 😜

Welcome Hugues! Please, post your snoot in the DIY section.

Welcome aboard Michael! I can see only one photo. In what format did you upload them?

Welcome onboard Colin!

Same here but with lights! Glad you joined us.

This shows that the average age of divers is rising. I see there is a review from Bali. Confess that it is you!!! 🤣

I forgot to add that our site is featured in this issue of UWP 😜

Yes we have linked it on our news section too. On the cover I see the stunning photo of Marco Gargiulo, winner of the UWP photo contest: a split shot with the Vesuvio volcano in the Gulf of Naples in the background.

Brevity is not my best gift 🙂

Hi all, We added some restriction on uploaded photos size. Here the new rules and a image sizing tutorial

Hi all, We added some restriction on uploaded photos size. Here the new rules and a image sizing tutorial

I like the blenny. He is a nightmare to shoot on video

Over the past few weeks with the forum fully operational, we have been looking more closely at the site statistics and in particular the size of the uploaded images. Various tests have been carried out trying to find a compromise between the quality of the images and their size. A unicorn for all forum administrators. Image size poses two types of problems: immediately: there are pages in the photo/video showcase sections that come to have several dozen photos and which become, especially on mobile devices, very slow to load. in the long term: it is important to have photos on one's own server because over time they become the assets of the community and storage is expensive. If appropriate measures in space management are not taken now, we may find ourselves with unsustainable costs in the not too distant future. We have also tried using various algorithms that resize photos on the fly during upload but with poor quality results and overloading the server's processing power. Long story short: we are forced to put strict specifications on the size of uploaded photos. Maximum size: 300 KB Long side size: 1200 pixels Please note that photos used for professional desktop wallpapers usually do not exceed 200 KB. But we don't leave you alone and for those members who might need it, we have listed how to meet these parameters using the most popular photo editing software on the market, Photoshop, Capture One and Lightroom. P.S. For best results, just follow the procedures below. Nevertheless, for the lazy, we have left the forum automatic sizing algorithm enabled but it may leave you unsatisfied. If your software is not there or you would like to add something, please let us know in the comments. Adobe Photoshop This is how to do it in Photoshop, newer versions may differ slightly and most other IP programs are similar. First open the image size dialog: Note the long side dimension highlighted, change this to 1200. Constrain proportions is ticked so you only change one dimension and the program calculates the other: No need to change image resolution it is irrelevant for the web, it is only used for printing. It may imapct font sizes for copyright notices but that's it. Next Save your image, select save as JPEG, from the drop down in format box and re-name if desired: Click save and you will get a drop down dialog box to select quality change quality till file size is in target range, click OK: Or Photoshop has save for web which has a finer range of options. Change quality till highlighted size is right. Check save as sRGB and I always embed colour profile: Once size is right click save and you are done. Capture One It's all in one screen, first is the recipe that you can recall Then naming if you want Then format and quality Then ICC profile Then size Open summary tab to see final file size: Adobe Lightroom Classic From your Library tab, select one or more photos. Right click on one photo and from the drop-down menu, choose Export. A new window with tons of options will appear. For our scope, only two sections are relevant: File Settings and Image Size. Press Export and that's it! P.S. You can save all your preferred export option in one user preset so next time you will find it directly in the Export menu. I would suggest to leave metadata in the exported photos: our gallery will display it showing to other members your camera settings.