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I have shot in 16:9 5.3k, the video is just a slice of the frame, my main focus is to make a longer 16:9 video, but I decided to post litte piece as vertical video On the final frame, i have adjusted higher the shot, but for vertical video, i left a bit of rock, that lie in the part of the social usual covered from comments and description

It's exported from 5.3k 16:9 native from GoPro, I think that's why 😁 I wanted to publish it as a short on YouTube, and the maximum resolution is 1080x1920, 9:16 I want to publish a longer video in a 16:9 format when I am ready 😁

I'll post here my upload from the trip, I'll appreciate suggestion to improve 😁

Love your video, welcome!

@Nando Diver I opted for a top float like @bghazzal suggested, the advantage being it's basically a balanced and leveled setup, but losing the compactness of the go pro Here the setup, without the torch: On the float arms, I have 3 lens holder, to put the 2 inon macro lens, plus one extra as support when i swap lens The top float was around 45$ on aliexpress

Out of topic here @Nando Diver, we are all about cheap light here 😆 And if we compare the good light for 6/700 $, we can buy 10 times the cheap one for the same price 😆

I don't have one at home, to weight luggage I use the scale xD And also with the luggage scale, you don't know the actual volume of the setup, and cannot balance perfectly for the salt water, at least if you don't do the weighting in salted water 😁 By the way, I used these calculation also because on the structural component i bougth, the only data i had was weight on land, and with the g/dm³ of the material, i calculated the volume, and subtracted the water weight for that volume. It worked first try, just 30 gr negative without even have all the pieces in hand xD For the torch, that have different density, i just used the submege and volume method

@Nando Diver to know the weight underwater you can do it pretty easily: 1 - Weight it on land (I use a kitchen scales to have more precision) 2 - Submerge the piece in a graduated container, and measure the volume of the displaced water (or if you have a bigger piece of equipment , you can fill to the brim a bigger non graduated container and collect the excess water to then weight ) 3 - Weight_on_land - Displaced_water_weight = Weight_underwater_fresh You can do this piece by piece, or go for the total 4 - For salt water: Total_weight_on_land - Total_displaced_water_weight x 1.025 = Weight_underwater_salt With this method i got already some measure for you: -GoPro 11 + case underwater fresh is 40 gr (250 gr on land) (basically equal to Gp13 ) -UFL 140 SD INON (similar to Aoi lens, if you want some approssimation and do not want to weight it yourself) 153 gr underwater, fresh (300 on land) By the way, your objective is to reach a perfectly neutral setup? I started with this idea, but ended with a slightly negative setup, and with that I improved stability of the video

So the polishing works, at least for the underwater footage! Good to know! But I still did not understand if you used the polish number 2 after the number 3 or you skipped the passage because it was good enough for you and you did not want to risk more

Really good try, but in your comment you said that you used the number 1, then 2 and last number 3, but in the video I saw, usually for deeper scratch they start from numer 3, and go down to 2 and 1 to finish the polish, you did not mention this passage, did you do it, and did not write it in the comment? Here a good guide on it, even if I am not sure 10/20 second can remove the scratch, it's probably more in line with your timing, if you don't use a dremel or similar. Let me know, I am really curious, since I also have the swapped lens, and if this method works, and I am unlucky enough to scratch it again, I could try the polish way.

And you also already bough the Novus kit! Polish it for science!

Useless just because they used it with the backscatter kit, and they suggest to zoom in the image, the inon g55 have a bigger magnification, and I use it without the zoom. By the way, seems like one more time, that it's a function bound to the go pro 13 only and their proprietary lens, just to sell more of the "new" GoPro 13 that is basically identical to the 10, 11 and 12 in the sensor and processor

There is also a neoprene cover for the inon lens, I bought it after the repair, you could also make one yourself with some extra neoprene, or search a similar one, the inon lens is a bit smaller than the aoi, i don't know if it would fit. I bring it underwater and remove it only after the the first dive check, to avoid new scratch while not having the camera as main focus. https://www.fotosub-shop.com/3617-inon-inon-cover-neoprene-per-ufl-g140sd.html

Will check if they add the option also on the gopro 12 firmaware, I won't upgrade Edit: I checked the firmware note, but did not find the macro option, it is still on github?

Hi, in the cave lake where we dive regularly, there are some sign to guide among the submerged "Attaction", cars, motorboat, ecc... like these: null But there are some of them that are not readable anymore, because they faded after years underwater. The faster way to make them readable is to change them, but out of curiosity, i searched online for a solution to write underwater, and i found these markers: Sakura Solid Marker Original - Suitup - Art Supplies (suitupshop.it) Do anyone have ever tried them or similar product? Except from the trusty pencil, did you use anything else? I bought them anyway, if they are not usable for the underwater writing, I will still use them to decorate my white fins 😁

Well, the functionality exist, so, if GoPro will make it avaible with official firmware or Labs firmware outside their macro lens use, I'd like to try it, to see firsthand if it's good.

I did not see the price for the new model, but I see a PRO in the name, usually it means a bump in the price, waiting for news

The AOI Housing is 1500$, I don't think is comparable for having the feature in camera, and not considerable a workaround.

I think the focus peaking is just a software thing, it just compare where there is more contrast in the image. It is useless when the GoPro is used without any lens, but for who uses existing third party macro accessory, it would be a good feature, since the shallow depth of field. We will see if they decide to block the feature behind the GoPro 13 paywall, with only GoPro accessory, for now there is no new standard or Labs firmware update for GoPro 11/12, and there is still no GoPro Labs for GoPro 13.

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Another video, I got the answer, bad news:

Another sofware update.... and i bet they will have an excuse to not bring it to the previous model, even if the processor is always the same...

I got 3 of the inon wet lens, really a good improvement

The thermal design and battery duration is for sure improved