Nemrod

Chris, I have a Nauticam NA-6400 (Sony). That is an A6400 crop sensor camera. I recently acquired, additionally, a new Nauticam NA-R50 (Canon). Either camera fits in the case with most accessories. I mostly shoot a CMC lenses for macro and the WWL rides on my housing 90% of the time. I put the arms in my checked luggage. I just ordered a new TrekPac kit for my 1535 Air in hopes of getting more in the case and better fitting either housing. The pluck foam just uses up too much useful space. Case depth is critical, the 1535 is just deep enough to take the housing with the handles and balls attached. Otherwise things start having to come apart or lay the housing over which consumes more space. I am actually in Cozumel now and rather than the 1535 I used a small sub carry-on sized roller bag for the NA-R50 with two strobes, CMC lenses and batteries etc. The WWL and arms went checked.

Chris, no, that orange case is a Pelican Air 1535 carry on size case.

The WWL-1 with the OE foam collar is negative but on either my NA-6400 or my NA-R50 the overall balance is near perfect. I have both set slightly negative using two Nauticam 70X800 float arms and two more 8 inch arms with the standard Stix floats now replaced by some Amazon arms I found that are prettier but work no better. My float collar was getting a little buggered up, cosmetics only, so I refinished and painted with PlastiDip. So far so good. I have a spare float collar should I ever wear this one out. I have had it to over 130 feet, even 150 feet more than once with no deleterious effects. I use a Stix buoyancy collar on my Canon/FIX90 rig with the old Inon WAL lens with dome, a heavy chunk without.

The metering would be the same as would occur in Tv or Av? But those would be fixed so it is the ISO that is allowed to float if Auto ISO selected? Really, I have no idea, thus asking you folks with more camera knowledge?

I looked around and perhaps missed it but does anyone shoot manual camera and manual strobes but use Auto ISO? Same, manual camera settings, Auto ISO but with sTTL?

The D2000 does not work any differently than a S220, D200 or other Inon strobe. It also has an external auto mode they do not have. You can purchase a replacement magnet. Newer Inon strobes use a switch to select preflash, no preflash. Preflash is needed for sTTL. The D2000 uses a magnet to activate (or not) the preflash selector switch. The sTTL mode automatically reverts to preflash expected. Manual strobe mode you will need to use the magnet to select preflash/no preflash. Sony cameras are weird, not sure about the A7 but there is no way to cancel preflash on my A6400 except via the UWT board and the #0 board switch selection.

I use the S2000 position for TTL with either Inon D2000 or Inon S220. Works fine. I am shooting with a Sony A6400. There are occasional and annoying fail to sync with every type of strobe I have been able to get my hands on with my UWT trigger. You should be able to run full manual with the #0 position set on the UWT board and Inon in M and set for no pre-flash. Or TTL with the Inon set for sTTL and the UWT set on #2 (?) position. You will need to configure a WL command selection and play with that setting on a programable button. You have the instruction sheet for your UWT trigger? It is detailed in the instructions how to set up. Yes Inon strobes will work with the UWT trigger in manual or TTL modes on the UWT board. The 0 manual position on the UWT board does not fire a pre-flash so your Inon will be set for manual and no pre-flash. The #2 TTL position does fire a pre-flash and sTTL on the strobe selection always assumes a pre-flash from the camera as that is how sTTL works. In Cozumel now, sorry if my asnwer is incomplete, sort of about to go diving.

I get that :). For us Cozumel is an easy day trip away with plenty of time for happy hour. Been coming here my entire life ;). I have never done the bag drag from Cancun. Been over there and to the Cenotes a few times. A friend had his camera rig stolen on the ferry. I never let my equipment out of sight on the ferry or anywhere for that matter, just asking for it. Cozumel is friendly and easy, it is just they never used to ask anything about cameras and now the last two times and this time was asked! So, not sure if the "infection' will spread over here. Cozumel is a little different and maybe it will remain free of such foolishness, just do not bring two high end camera rigs that look expensive. That red button lottery, who knows! The unknown is the fret.

Now in Cozumel. Again, for now the third time, I was pointedly and specifically asked how many cameras do I have. I answered one. We did not get the dreaded red button. If we had----? Of course I only had one NA-R50 plus WWL, CMC, two strobes, arms, Canon R50 and a Gopro. And we were waved on through with a smile and "enjoy your stay" and a wave. Like pulling petals on a daisy to determine the status of your one true love, does she or does she not. Beginning to be more worry and fretting than I want to deal with. What if I had two, what constitutes two cameras, is a GoPro an actual camera, is the housing counted separate, what are the rules, are there rules? What if we got the red button? I am not doing a carnet. 🙄

Any news on Cozumel direct? I have been many times with no issue but last two times through I was asked how many cameras I had and I said one and was waved on. Leaving in the morning, fingers crossed!

Yes, despite my elaborate and practiced in and out routine, last year in Cozumel at the Devil's Throat after the camera was handed into me the first thing I do (assuming I do not go in with it myself already clipped) is to clip off the entire rig to my scooter ring. I somehow missed the scooter ring, thought I was clipped, a friend was frantically waving at me, I look down to see my camera 20 feet or more below me and headed away in the current fast 😱. I probably broke several speed records. S--t happens as they say no matter how careful we try to be. Sounds like a plan to get the lens repaired when you do the housing service 😀.

I would get the lens repaired. It is too nice of a piece of kit not to. Of course it will costs some $$ to do so. I keep my port cover on with my WWL-1 going in and coming out. I clip the plastic dome cover off to my crotch strap (scooter D-ring) and it floats up between my legs it seems. In any case, I never notice it during a dive but it sure adds peace of mind when the dingy crew piles dive gear on my housing like during a LOB in the Red Sea.

I shoot mostly WA and CFWA and portrait shots. I rarely do macro. I use the screen and while I did briefly have a VF I had traded for I sold it off as I just did not use it. Fortunately or not ;), I have a prescription mask with bifocals and the screen is just fine for me. Edit to add, I want to make it my byline, I am not a pro, I am barely an amateur, I manage to take a lucky shot once in a while.

My new NA-R50 is loaded for Cozumel in a few days. I still have my NA-A6400 Sony but it is staying home due to concerns over Mexico "import" fees. My NA-R50 came from another forum member and I purchased the Pro Kit options and brackets through Reef because I like two strobes I really like the outfit. I already have the CMC lenses and the WWL-1 and these are what I used most of the time for my Sony rig despite having other options. I do wish that Nauticam would provide a corrective air lens, a (semi-affordable) fisheye water contact lens and a bayonet flip holder. Maybe they will at least address the flip holder. I had a (used) VF for my Sony and sold it off. I just prefer the screen for WA and CFWA and fish shots and that is what I mostly do. A VF is nice for macro but I can do without for my purposes. I may purchase the extended VF for the NA-R50, maybe. The R50 shoots great and the housing is exactly what you expect of Nauticam. And the rig packs up nicely. The Nikon rig might have been what I went with had the opportunity to purchase the R50 had not come along. But that reasoning was mostly based on the independent controls for the Nikon vs the Command dial for the Canon. It turns out that in use, the Command dial for ISO, f stop and shutter speed is fine, better than fine and is not an impediment. I also set the AF/MF button to shortcut so I can rapidly shift between manual strobes and TTL strobes.

I bought a Nauticam WWL-1 way back like around 2019, oh, so long ago ;). I first used it and still do with a Sony A6400 in a Nauticam NA-6400 housing on the Macro Port 45. I use the WWL-1 with both the Sigma 19 Art lens and the PZ kit zoom. Most of my shots are around f8 to f11 but I am not afraid to go to f5.6 and I have done some available light with the faster Sigma lens that opens to f2.8 with the WWL-1 (wrecks and things like that). People, other divers, ask me what I am taking pictures of. They want to hear me say frog fish or seahorses or dolphins or sharks, something that is a clear subject. Then I show them my photos and they wander around the image with their eyes trying to find the frog fish. There is not one. I take pictures of the light. It is the light, the way it streams through the water, the reflections and texture of the reef. As such, I just do not care a flip about extreme corner sharpness if even any of my equipment can produce extreme corner sharpness and I do not care. I take photos to please myself for fun. And because I find the expression of light in the underwater world fascinating. So I am possibly an "isolationist" also. Now I have come to own the Nauticam NA-R50 Pro kit. At first I thought, such an odd idea and then it dawned on me that I already had the WWL, the CMC lens duo and want a MWL and then realized just how much stuff I could leave at home with my Sony rig. Domes, additional ports and lenses I obligingly carried just because and instead just concentrate on getting the pictures that I enjoy with the water contact optics I was carrying and mostly using anyways but now with the R50 only. Well, as soon as I take the camera on a trip in a few weeks. And pool tests show the IQ overall and even in the corners to be more than adequate to my purposes. The R50, at least my incomplete practice shooting, is cleaner at higher ISOs than I might normally use with the Sony. I think I gained almost a stop. So what I did at f11 and ISO200 I might now can do nearer to f16 and ISO400, maybe.