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Folks who are using the current gen OM Systems bodies - how reliable is the eye or subject detection underwater? The OM5 doesnt have animal subject detection but does have eye detection. The 1 and 3 bodies do have animal subject detection. Any first hand experiences on how well these work with moving subjects where lock/recompose isnt always an option? TIA!

Lovely video!

Yeah, that's the same conclusion I am reaching. Would have been nice to have a current-gen camera on offer, but it isn't the end of the world. And worst case, spend a little more and just get the OM3 housing, whenever Nauticam releases it.

I love my fisheye - i have rarely used a rectilinear wide angle since switching to fisheyes in 2008 or 2009. No, they aren’t as versatile - so if your goal is to get a lot of good shots per trip, a different lens might be better. My goal is to get a few great images per trip, so I am willing to sacrifice some versatility for that. Strobe placement will change a lot when you change the dome, especially if you are habituated to the old dome. I switched to Supe DPro after nearly 2 decades of Inon and I still get the strobe placement wrong at times, as muscle memory takes over and I forget to account for the much wider beam. Worth pushing through it, I feel.

Thanks, John. Would you happen to know if they have a B102 to N85 converter as well? I have written to them, but havent gotten a reply yet. Should have asked them at ADEX but was a bit crunched with some other stuff….

Oooh, thanks. I'll ping them and see what, if anything, they can do.

Ah, I should have clarified - I meant the N85 ports that go with the Nauticam MFT housings. If I can find a way to use them with third party housings, that would be really nice. Can get a couple of cheaper housings and have full setups ready for divers to take on dives. Worst case, I'll just pick up a Nauticam housing for the OM3 whenever it comes out, and keep the OM10 housing as well (not as if I'm getting a lot for it if I sell it anyway). I've written to Isotta to see if their MFT housings can take N85 ports - to be honest, there wont be much of a price savings, if any, if I go that route but might as well try a different brand if I can.

Out of curiosity - does anyone make adapters that will allow for use of Nauticam ports on other brands of housings (eg, AOI or Seafrogs or whatever)? I have switched to Marelux and have a whole lot of ports etc lying around, and thought it might be worth putting together an inexpensive secondary system with a newer OM Systems body - and since I can get AOI or Seafrogs for a very nice trade rate, that might be worth giving a go. This also becomes something I can rent out to anyone wanting to do a photography class with me or something.

I remember that - and flipping mimic octopii into the air so divers could get a shot of them in blue water used to be a thing, as well. 20 years of running a dive center and I can confidently say that photographers are disproportionately (and by a huge margin) likely to ignore responsible diving practices in the interest of getting a shot and the subsequent social media egowank. Terrestrial wildlife photographers arent any better - probably worse, actually.

What I am planning to do is wrap the housing in bubble wrap and put into an ultralight, very small shoulder bag as a personal item. Everything else is gonna go into a fairly compact Lowepro shoulder bag - or possibly an ultralight 30-35L hiking pack with camera inserts. Add a Scottevest or a photographer vest (depending on how cool/dorky you want to look) and this should work. But then, I dont travel with laptops, etc on diving holidays - have no particular urge to process my photos daily (leave that for my return). A Kindle and at most, an iPad mini.

Macro lens on Flasher Beach??? (Ok, I'll let myself out now)

I wonder whether under-invoicing will start to become common now for the US, atleast for personal shipments - and whether US CBP is going to care enough about that to investigate more thoroughly.

Jumping in a bit late, but there often can be justifiable reasons to increase prices everywhere. A few of them: - a projected decline in total sales volume may require higher prices as the fixed costs are getting amortized over a smaller number of items - some of the consequential costs incurred by tariffs (warehousing, supply chain changes, etc) are a corporate level and cannot be allocated just to the units going to the US - a desire to maintain consistent pricing - or some semblance thereof - across the board globally That is not to say “we will use this as an excuse to jack prices” doesnt happen.

Thanks for that, guys. I dont really shoot that much macro to build up a big array of accessories that will get used maybe 1x a year. But still, something to think about - this or a close-up lens.

Bumping this up. Now that this has been out for a while, any first hand experiences with it? And specifically, any thoughts on whether it is worth trying this out on an APS-C body with a 90mm macro? Non-Nauticam system, for what it is worth (which shouldn't matter, as far as I can tell).