RomiK

Nice! When were you? We were in July last year. Our cuda dive was a bit late in the day so not much to show, light was not enough 🤷

yeah, 8-15 without TC is a beauty... sharpness and microcontrast are TOP!

you're welcomed. Have you decided on monitor yet? Curious.

oopsie ... was on an orca trip back then and didnt check back... not wanting to be seen as ignorant 🙈 no worries about heat damage again, camera will switch itself off well ahead of such problem even with temp set to HIGH as for the monitor - using it achieves 2 goals. One is "heat from lcd screen operation elimination" - you can leave screen off in both 'clean hdmi' and 'control display' and second is the battery longevity as LCD does consume energy. But even with this I can overheat the camera - especially when I keep recording after pressing wrong lever (you know that rocker lever one for recording and the other side for focus) I leave camera recording for many minutes accidentally 🙈🤣 (and i have no idea since I am not looking at the camera at all, I am only using clean HDMI on monitor which doesnt show controls) 🤣

Nice! I have a pygmy or two for you to compare :-) (WACP-C) I went the other way. It helped that I already had 8-15 and TC2x so it didn't hurt that much just having 140mm glass and port extension lying around these days (and waiting for the right opportunity :-) Jokes aside my decision was influenced not so much by picture quality rather then by my use case - I do both on the same dive, photo and video and in video department metabones is just not there as far as the focus goes. I also think that - surprisingly to me - at the long end the WACP-C/28-60 was a tad sharper than 8-15/TC. (While the same 28-60 paired with WWL-1B was really disappointing). But all in all each use case is different and I can totally see that the desire for extreme - and flexible - wide angle would present this 8-15/TC as the best option. Thanks for report! Cheers.

awesome report and pics! definitely on our list!

This may not be understandable at first but as someone who has to travel to dive i would say - save money and travel light. In my world it means get nauticam housing with 30mm port + WACP-C + new 105 macro + 100mm new macro lens + 28-60 for wacp-c + (perhaps) sony TC2x - and you will be set for foreseeable future for everything from lembeh creatures to big ocean stuff like Socorro mantas etc. For both photo and video. Just stay away from adapted stuff - looks nice on paper but in reality unless you have it lying around not worth the headache. Image shot with WACP-C at 60mm on A1 (yes its a crop but you have 50MP too so what...)

Thank you guys. Orcas are nicknamed as 'pandas of the sea' and it well describes them. They are completely harmless toward human being, they literally shove you away on their way to food. The bigger problem are humpbacks who always crash the party from down below - open their mouth, eat the ball, make the splash and the story start again :-). I happened to be in the splash zone of one of these and THAT's an adrenaline!🤣

1.1 crop A1 vs 1.5 crop A7R5 in 4k120?

We were supposed to finish the day. On the way back to the boat I saw some action across the bay about a mile away. Like geyzers popping up all over the place. I talked others to go to check this out and the rest is history. It was the most spectacular action of our trip and as the guides put it they've never seen anything like it in years. Never mind my battery was exhausted before three humpbacks decided to end the party and splash me away :-)

Although the Pro dome is much much better than original the x5 footage still isn't good for anything else than vertical socials IMO. There are stitching artifacts usually where it matters :-) and the quality in low light is still poor and mushy. Apart from stitching artifacts - dome reflections - for the documentation I would say yes but then it gets quite big that PRO dome and so It gets in the way... So I would stick to action cam as a B-roll or fun dive camera. Here is link to full frame footage scaled to 4k https://youtu.be/721F2hq9XoQ and here is a screen grab converted to jpeg, the HDR version looks better.

power bank! 👍

... or it is perhaps confirmation that extra 10mm in space between port glass and the lens won't matter (1.4x is 17.4mm while 2x is 27.2mm added length to the lens). Which means that using old port 105 with 30mm port extension might be feasible for new 100mm macro (?)

Awesome! I would be terrific - if you had time - if you could show us the differences on screen. It could be a room scene with window and something behind it (garden, tree, anything) and shot by iPhone in HDR (default) and posted to YouTube so it would show HDR mark after posted. So it would be HDR video. It could also help you to determine best practice while underwater. With my Shinobi I found PQ mapping having the most dynamic range but HLG mapping keeping screen brighter. On my Sony A1 that is. I will try to do something like that later to show example.

This is amazing! What size of battery can you fit in that housing? And Feelworld model?