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Aloha and welcome Nick @andersonsmog ! If you’re going to be serious about underwater photography, you might want to spend more money, so the Ikelite may be your ticket. The housings are bigger and more buoyant but they work well, and Ikelite services what they make, which can be an issue with what may be one and done Sea Frogs housings. Later, you may be seduced with the more svelte aluminum housings (Sea Frogs make these, too) made by Nauticam, Marelux et al. I’m on Oahu if you want to DM me.

Nice work!

Aloha and welcome @kdgonzalez

Aloha and welcome @Don Silcock !

Aloha and welcome @jofische !

Aloha and welcome @wdeutsch ! We are happy to help you spend your kids’ inheritance.

very cool.

Aloha and welcome @AlexUW26

Great stuff! Thanks.

Aloha and welcome @BarnyD

Aloha and welcome @kc_moses Congratulations on your retirement!

Holy moley. Just seeing this. Glad no one was hurt. A great reminder of what could have transpired.

Aloha and welcome @KiruKakuni

Wet lenses are attached to the port, and increase magnification. Less magnification is easier to work with, and in my opinion, should be what manufacturers use to label their lenses (+6, +2, +12) rather than the names they give them: UCL-167 or SMC-1, which means little when you’re trying to compare lenses. Teleconverters do something different, which increases the focal length of the native lens, and allows for greater working distance and, ultimately, magnification. This is probably easier to use, though I’ve never done this, if you can get used to the increased focal length of the lens. A 100mm lens with a 1.4x converter will be 140mm, for instance. “High” f-stops? The higher the number, the smaller the aperture, e.g. f/16, and increased depth of field, which is desirable when you have razor thin zones of focus. f/2.8, for example is wide open with your lens. Hope this helps, and I’m sure others out there will help correct any of my misconceptions.

Aloha and welcome @Terri I'm a Sony user, but I have to say that the mad rush to full frame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Call it sensor envy. I have a full frame body and housing, but I’d prefer to use the smaller lenses that cropped sensors provide. My A6700s are thus far unhoused. I love the idea of large sensor compacts, too. There are a lot of cameras out there but we’re always looking for perfect, eh? Hauling them around is also a thing to consider.

Still up for me. I signed in and all that.

@Pooley lovely photos!

That’s sweet @Dave_Hicks

Great stuff @Muellema !

Aloha and welcome @SimonK

Aloha and welcome @gb diver !

Aloha and welcome @tomstoll !

Nice work @Matan

Aloha and welcome @Lithium - keep that G7x - at least until there’s finally an upgrade. Those small “bricks" are great!

Aloha and welcome @hotaru !