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RomiK started following Kraken 5.5 "ultra bright"u/w monitor , Sony A1 overheating during video , Sony 100 mm macro and 6 others
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Sony A1 overheating during video
I assume you did MENU → (Setup) → [Power Setting Option] → [Auto Power OFF Temp.] and select [High] Not to worry, no damage possible Even then the camera produces a lot of heat at 4k100 and so trapped in housing in warm waters - like 28C+ - will cause it overheat. Yes, using external monitor helps but there is tradeoff in terms of size and travel weight. Still totally worth to me.
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Sony 100 mm macro
I would disagree on a problem - current N100 90mm port doesn't fit the lens with cap so it sits pretty tight. I am estimating worst case scenario with 30mm extension is the gap of like 20mm between the front element and the port glass so it shouldn't even vignette and certainly it won't be able to focus on front glass. The EMWL implications are unclear to me - if any, I just can't picture what kind of woodoo the focus unit does. Canon 100mmRF lists both #2 and #3 for its FOV but what kind of effect the extra 20mm between the lens and the focus unit will have I just can't picture 🤷
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Sony 100 mm macro
Nice! I'd like to think that 30mm N100 extension which I use for WACP-C will work also with existing N100 macro port! New lens is 19mm longer than the old one. And for TC when TC if TC just another extension. Keeping travel light! 😁 The questions is how EMWL will work with this?🤷
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New full aluminum Seafrogs housings
They certainly have better taste I choosing monitors for which to make housing. What on earth both Nauticam and Marelux were thinking when making housing for touch only monitors from Atomos ... 🤦(save for recorder)
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Diving South West Halmahera from Sali Bay resort - August 2025
Yep, from the marine life composition through corrals - we did dive the same location! 😄 Nice pictures!
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Diving South West Halmahera from Sali Bay resort - August 2025
Excellent pictures Luko, you've captured the essence of Halmahera! We were passing on liveaboard mid July this year and can confirm everything and above from your report as for that place. The only thing I'd add are the humphead parrotfishes, this one from Pokal island next to Sali Bay. Other than that you were spot on with diving and weather conditions. Mostly grey above water and vis so so there. But no wonder - you were staying in middle of river! Imagine the sheer volume of water passing through the strait with unpredictable tide schedule combined with the effect of islands blocking that straight and you easily change your opinion on guides not letting you go when they deemed currents too strong :-) It's not as much about the divers skills but rather about the unpredictability and sheer strength of these currents. On one dive in there a current hit us so strong it almost ripped my A1 rig out of my hands. I bet your R7 setup is not smaller :-) Can't really take pictures in that :-) On another dive our group was split in half with one part making a circle finishing where we started - all the while in big current - and the other half ended a quarter mile down the road... Funny for us but not so much for the dive operations :-) For me Halmahera trip (we started Lembeh, moved across and also explored islands near Halmahera, was terrific. The corrals were so rich I found myself taking one picture after another just to look at the previews on my monitor! I honestly think the best way to enjoy Halmahera for non-photographers is to have like 15K lumen floodlight and enjoy the colours this way :-) True, shoal fish can be seen only at middle of the Molucca sea at Gureda island - Pula Tifore but we've also encountered sardines at that Pokal place I think the hype - if there is any - is that it is so remote and so new for many people. And also perhaps fun in some currents situation. And I think it is well deserved due to combination of colours and variability of marine life - I will skip my macro life pictures as I do not want to hijack this excellent report thread :-)
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Insta360 X5 underwater
Interesting question indeed. 2nd gen AKA pro version of I360 housing has larger dome right? So the problem might be in the distance of virtual image perhaps? Perhaps it is unsolvable until someone creates diopter corrected lens either for camera or housing which could play with camera and virtual image better... questions no answers...
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WACP-C vs WWL-1B for Sony Nauticam setup
Get WACP-C and don't look back. From some reason WWL-1B is a bit soft at the long and while WACP-C is razor sharp. Plus not dealing with bubbles especially when you do freediving is an enormous plus. I lost so many opportunities at Galapagos with sharks present at the drop but I had to burp lens first... I would dismiss adapted 8-15 for your application. You need perfect AF. These pictures are with WACP-C and at 60mm from Indonesia this summer. I got better quality and clarity from WACP than from 90mm (!!). It is one image - the whole frame and the crop. You can't believe this unless you see it!!!
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New Nikon ZR Cinema Camera
I think both Canon C50 and Nikon ZR are like dream come through for recreational UW videographers. Especially ZR with 24-70 2.8ii paired with WACP-C would be a killer pocket rocket provided that Nauticam makes N100 housing for it and Nikon allows for IBIS focal length definition and there is fast access to manual WB and that WB is actually good. Uff too many conditions :-) For me it is DOA for lack of mechanical shutter (I do like taking stills with flash :-). I absolutely love bigger screens on both. So c'mon Sony, bring FX3 ii with 8k60, mechanical shutter and 5inch screen and my money are yours 😆
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Insta360 X5 underwater
Video will be as better as smaller screen to watch will be and as larger portion of 8k footage you can cram on it. I got 360 a bit naive to think it could at least document the dive - and it can if you can bear watching the footage out of it - but now I think its good for like those special effects if you building memories video and nothing much cinematic :-) . Like this instagram bait :-)
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Nauticam EMWL - strong reflection in final picture
I agree, the front element of 130 is bulging out and the light source could have come from literally anywhere... perhaps even caused by the shrimp... it definitely is not camera lens reflection, the construction of EMWL system wouldn't allow it. I have the same system - A1 and 130 - and time to time the reflections appear... rarely but they do. With the shade you won't be able to get this close to shrimp though and anemone would quite suffer. I would say with taking several pictures there would be a good chance to have at least one of them clean. Great example of a good use of 130 btw!👏
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Canon RF 11-55mm for Full Frame
I dunno, I've found using rectilinear 14/1.8 challenging UW so 11mm the corners will stretch a lot. And not to put a cold water on this rumour but isn't R7 ii crop camera also coming out with that range perhaps more fitting for it... 😉
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Kraken 5.5 "ultra bright"u/w monitor
They have them made to specs in literally milimeter increments for each housing... that's why...
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Insta360 X5 underwater
I've found housing ok. No problem with fogging, good response. Stiching glitches on occasion, definitely avoiding stitch over the subject. So good overall. Just the camera isn't there yet for UW. I also got Osmo360 so waiting for housing for this one...
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List of Underwater Monitors
Hi Davide, it's an export from numbers and has no links, yours does... The flip button is important when shooting with macro 90mm and EMWL when I don't want to use relay lens. The relay lens deteriorate image quality, takes off the light and contribute to even more color cast. And also the whole setup is smaller with no relay. My EMWL is 130 and so when I take it off the housing I still have standard narrow macro 90mm . But no relay lens means the image is flipped. So I need to flip it. And last thing I want to do underwater is to go through menus. And with Nauticam solution and shinobi just forget it. There is no access to settings while Shinobi is in housing. monitors.xlsx