christophe chellapermal

I highly recommend the UWT over the TRT it is way more reliable in every way 

welcome to waterpixels !!

thank you 🙂

yes it was mine lol biut i couldnt find anymore yesterday just did 🙂

Hey everyone im tempted to go back to 35 mm i have an old nikonos V and 2 RS body that would need servicing would anyone know of anybody that could help ?

Thank you,

Chris 

thx guys will keep trying 🙂

hey guys well tried everything nothing works if anyone has any ideas im open for suggestions..

Hey everyone does anyone know anywhere i could get a nikonos v and rs serviced ?

Thank you

Chris 

Thx guys i have tried with no luck my leather wrench is to big… i ll try another one merci 🙏

Hey everyone i own a nauticam lens i cant seem to unscrew from my flip holder i assume theres been some aluminium oxydation.. would anyone have any tip to help me ?

Thank you 

On 2/15/2024 at 2:02 AM, christophe chellapermal said:

Well i ve had a not very good experience with the turtle but despite this i must say that Balazs still refunded me the full amount and i still haven't even sent him back the unit. Balazs was certainly very reactive to my mails yet it's been hard to communicate at times.  I might have been unlucky with that unit it happens. One thing that really sucks on the trigger is that there is no visual aid to notify you when its on or off a little led on the side would be quite nice. 

I the end i am taking back and apologise about  what i said about the product it does work. The trigger was not working because the camera was on silent mode this cancels any flash triggering. My experience was a disaster and could ve been handled differently and make a difference but like i said balaz reimbursed me in full i still haven't been able to send him back the unit will do that asap.

yes though i realised after that my evf brightness was super high after removing live view i though i was in lighten condition where in reality i might have been attempting to shoot without proper foucing light!

20 hours ago, Barmaglot said:

Wait wait wait, besides you and me, how many board members were on that trip? LOL, I really should talk to people more...

 

This is actually quite similar to my experience on Sony a6300. Before I used to use a Weefine Smart Focus 1000 for focus lighting, and found that it really struggled to lock focus unless I added the light from both Retra Pro modeling lights and often the spotting torch as well (I'd hold it with my ring and pinky fingers of the left hand, pointing it at the subject, as the rest of the hand was holding up the camera handle). This trip I put my old Archon D36V on the cold shoe, and found that focusing got a lot easier. Still not perfect, but not as much of a struggle as it used to be. It's kinda worrying though, that a brand-new flagship body is exhibiting similar issues to an eight-year-old camera that retailed at a quarter of its cost.

 This is too funy man i just realised lol thats so funy that we were together on the same trip and didn t realise !!

I think you are right about focus light i'm looking as we speak to order quite a few lights im probably going to go with big blue for the line im still not sure if i should go with 5000 lumen or 9 000 lumen i will add some focus lights smalled than 20 lumen galia even if i use it at half power...

I have done some research yesterday mike bartick is also on a z8 he is using the f105 the z105 and seems to be also using the 24-50  but with the wacp-1 instead of the wwl1 not sure if the focusing distance is better with the wacp... 

@Barmaglot and @bghazzal@Davide DB actually just came back from smiling seahorse, franck the owner of  the boat is one of the most passionate photographers i have had the chance to know  funnily enough i knew him before he was diving professionally and did his aow-dm at my place back when i had a center ! Long story short they offer black water trips on every trip if there is enough participant, myanmar just reopened this was the first cruise and we got to do 2 bw dives. It was interesting i have yet to look at my photos, i was on the z8 and must say i was really struggling with the af in black water. I used to shoot a d500 and it was much more efficient for bw. For wa it was great for daytime macro too but for black water without 2 x 5k lumen focus light i would not get a focus and i tried many af-servo the most efficient was af-c with a large box.. i did try using my 16-35 in a 230 mm port to film for macros as well as th 24-50 with wwl1 to film but very hard to get sharpness in both cases.  David i can only guess those lenses you quote were on m4/3 so maybe on fx a 50-85mm would be better provided it has short focus distance..  

Yeah there was a seahorse pic with an ear bud. i think no award in uw has ever been revoked.. 

Hello everyone, i m working on an article and could use a small help... i remember a couple of years ago a person that had won a uw photo competition had his price revoked. I can t seem to remember exactly he had faked the image or manipulated the seahorse..  can anyone remember this incident or any incident of the sort ? 

thx

Well i ve had a not very good experience with the turtle but despite this i must say that Balazs still refunded me the full amount and i still haven't even sent him back the unit. Balazs was certainly very reactive to my mails yet it's been hard to communicate at times.  I might have been unlucky with that unit it happens. One thing that really sucks on the trigger is that there is no visual aid to notify you when its on or off a little led on the side would be quite nice. 

hi there, still for sale?  are they the the type 1 or 2?

Cheers tim not sure why it didn't work right away but after 15 min i was good merci mon ami

i ve been on the z8 in a isotta housing super happy i was before on a nauticam d500 not only can you adapt the nauticam port using the isotta adaptor i was able to also use my nauticam viewfinder the only think that i had a bad experience with so far was with a ttl trigger manufacturer i won t elaborate here but will do in pm. 

I must say that first video you posted @Davide DB from artilis i really wonder what lens he has behind that set up... i wonder if i use my z24-50 on wwl1 @50mm if that would do the trick.... 

On 1/13/2024 at 2:46 PM, Barmaglot said:

I've done blackwater diving with The Smiling Seahorse liveaboard in Andaman Sea; they do at least one blackwater dive per trip, and occasionally they do a blackwater-focused trip (I'm going on one in nine days! Hurray!). The way they do it is that they have a large buoy with a line attached to it, and a light shining into the buoy - this makes the whole buoy glow, so it is visible from a ways away on the surface. On the line, there are pairs of Archon 5400 lumen video lights, one pair at three meters pointing up, another pair at five meters pointing down, another pair at ten meters, another pair at fifteen meters, and finally some lead weights to stabilize the whole thing. All the lights are turned on as the divers are getting suited up, and the line is chucked into the water - preferably, this is done in as deep a place as feasible. The boat follows the buoy, the divers jump in, swim over to the buoy and descend near the line. Nobody is tethered - the line is visible from a fairly long way away, and even if you get too far away to see the video lights, you can find your way back to it by homing on the photographers' flashes. During the dive, the boat follows the buoy as it drifts with the current and picks up the divers as they come up.

 

Im heading also heading on smiling seahorse end of feb looking forward to it Franck and camille are good old time friends actually. I have just tried for the second time to organize black water in the uae. it was last sat right on new moon we were difrting with the boat. i had a brigh light set up 80k lumen with a gen set at 6 m 2 keldan8k flux at 10 and 2500 lumen at 15 m. I think we were not far out defo will be trying it out again 

thanks tim good to see your here i still can t seem to respond or reply on other forums is there anything else i need to do ?

Hello everyone my name is chris been in the region since 1986.i ve been an uw photographer since 2007. I ve owned two nauticam housing with a d4 and d500 now on a z8 in a isotta housing. Looking forward to using this new forum is was on wetpixel b4 looking forward to get back to posting cheers 😉