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Atleast you can make the trip with borrowed strobes. So Backscatter strobes are just rebranded AOI ones?

Some next level DIY stuff right there. 👍 And great documentation for us to see. And you arent the only one (or the last) to notice the horrid battery life on mirrorless compared to DSLR's.

At Lembeh pretty much all are (macro)photography oriented. I have stayed numerous times at NAD Lembeh and can recommend.

Camera bodies are almost identical with small 1mm difference in size. Nauticam housing for A7V has playback lever moved from top left to a button bottom right. Also slight streamlining can be seen in the body also. I went from A7RV to A1ii and the new one has little bit different main o-ring seating than old housing, i suspect this new system is also in the A7V housing.

Unfortunately you most likely have a leak somewhere. Could be any of the buttons ect with an o-ring. You could try to use leak detection smoke to pinpoint where it is, but if its really small, it might be useless. Your local dealer can service and change everything im sure.

$1100 for the housing plus $165 for the periscope stick (Ø37x350 Carbon Fibre Aluminium Float Stick (Buoyancy 190g)) Well cheaper abroad obviously.

Looks like Nauticam is back on the compact camera housing market. Saw this pop on my socials feed, nothing on Nauticam website tho.

I thought there was a thread about Mikomoto already, but couldnt find one. Anyway. Going to Japan early autumn and have set my sights on Mikomoto. Recommendation needed on operator, accommodation, ect. The whole lot. I know theres the occasional storm when diving is cancelled and im thinking for a week, but is that too much? Also do the operator offer for example macro diving at Izu if Mikomoto is stormed off? Or is this to be arranged on your own? Lens choices, most footage is from far away in the blue, so strobes can be left in hotel im sure? Sony full frame shooter, what are best options? Or just GoPro? Any help appreciated.

Doesnt sound familiar at all, right?

I ordered some arms and floats from Temu. 2x 20(8inch)cm arm and four of the floats total of 35€. Arms arent real high quality with treatment on balls deteriorating. The floats (175g each) feel real good. I dont like the porous material of stix, and these are solid. All in all, about 60 dives in, im giving the arms 5/10 and floats 9/10.

So many people from here visited Dema and didnt go on their stand? I was hoping for someone to make a review from hands on there.

Has these gone back to the drawing board? Status on website has gone to "The product is under development." Previously it had release date of September and later December.

My main issue is that the AI tracks and then decides its not the subject. Like stationary(some movement but you know) nudi, initial focus on rhinopore and its stays there 5-10 seconds, then the AI just suddenly decides its not where to focus and goes to the gills, body or sand. Insect, Animal, eye/head/body doesnt matter. Ok nudibranch isnt the most common subject that the AI has learned im sure. Also tried little bit with tripod, to minimize camera movement, and set focus on point x and thought its good, but camera actually focuses on point z that was just outside/edge of the box. This happens without the AI subject recognition also.

For some reason, i seem to have this exact same thing. A1ii+100mm. Shooting nudis, initial focus on rhinopore and then it just buggers off to grain of sand or a spot on nudi. Didnt have any of this on A7RV+90mm, always spot on. Maybe mods can break this into own thread?

It should flash yellow first when it senses you are losing vacuum, flashing red is vacuum lost already. Funny enough, i had this today on 3rd dive, started flashing yellow at 20 meters, got up to 5 meter and it went to green again.