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I agree with Caolla - ease of use and less fiddling around is The Way. Your photo galleries are wonderful!

Aloha and welcome @Titanite !

@OlDirtyDiver Great stuff!

Aloha and welcome @OlDirtyDiver ! I’m on Oahu but seem to hang out with people who don’t want to work that hard, hence the high pressure cylinders of air. Recently sold my Nikonos stuff, but somewhat reluctantly.

aloha and welcome to waterpixels !

Aloha and welcome @Zach !

I’ve had the RX100II & V, Canon G7x I & II, Olympus OM-D EM-5 and EM-1m2 and currently the Sony A7c. I, too, miss the Olympuses and the 60 macro, and both 8mm fisheyes. Small footprint, great ergonomics. Really fine system. Autofocus was behind the times, but a really good system. I just hope they don’t go out of business. I now have a Sony A6700, but it’s unhoused at the moment. Smaller sensors = smaller lenses.

@Castillo The Sigma 20-200mm looks cool as a travel lens, too.

It sounds like your traveling kit will get larger! I would think that if your underwater photography is only one-quarter to one-half of your photos, you might stick with the one inch compact and use wet lenses. Not ideal for macro, but portable. Trying to house the 14mm will create its own nightmares. But I get the desire to streamline things, but again, it leads to different problems. For travel, if you do go with another kit, I think the Sony kit lens - 28-60mm - with a wet wide lens is a good way to go. You might be able to use the same port with an extension if you want to use the Sony 50 macro or the Zeiss 50 macro. The Zeiss does not extend at close distances, and is much better than the Sony. Also, you might consider the A7cR instead, as you can punch in on the sensor, giving you a 75mm equivalent, and won’t lose as much as you would with the less-detailed A7c sensor.

Aloha and welcome @Castillo

@Craine It's nice to see a well done photo using snoots but it does take a bit of time and I hate being the guy who’s always bringing up the rear.

That’s a cool find! I didn’t see one the one time I was in Bonaire. That last frame looks best to me. With the strobe on the left pointing right, maybe even aiming at the housing, you can keep the light off the background. One strobe can do a lot. That’s assuming you can’t change angles to get a cleaner background. Another thing to try is overexpose the whole scene so contrast can be controlled in post between light and dark areas. Also, don’t forget snoots. And larger apertures can help with distracting in-focus backgrounds, too. All in all, quite a few ways to handle that situation.

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@dhaas nice piece, thanks!

On the plus side, maybe cold denizens can live longer by having the genetics of a Bowhead whale. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09694-5

S. marmoratus, aka the Fuller Brush Shrimp. Great find!

Aloha and welcome @nicole.brenner The G7x mII is a fine camera. I wish they would update the G series!

Aloha and welcome @zoly55 Any images of the bear? 🧸🐻

In the 90s I was in Afghanistan during that stalemate that was much of the conflict going on there, and trying to make analog photos of an artillery piece being fired. Try as I might, I could not get an image with the rockets leaving their tubes. This, I’m sure, would have been a no-brainer then.

Cartier-Bresson would be rolling in his grave. The Decisive Moment indeed.

I’m smiling as I read about 30 fps, and that pedestrian 8-10 fps. How far we’ve come, eh?

Excellent information. Thanks folks.

@Klaus that's a nice report and photos!

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