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I'm new to photography and pretty inexperienced with it. I started shooting in aperture priority (basically stay wide open the whole dive) because it's what I knew. A lot of the time my pictures would come out with motion blur because I didn't have enough light and the shutter speed was low...

Yeah I'm expecting some vignetting with both lenses. The Meikon dome I have doesn't list as compatible for either lens but both lenses are smaller than the 12-40mm at the 40mm end so they would fit in the housing at least. After thinking about it for a few days I don't know if I'd gain much by...

Is this a corrected fisheye? I don't think I've seen an edit like this before. The yellow fish on the left seem really compressed, but the leftmost diver seems pretty normal. Sick shots! I use a small dome with the 12-40mm and a flat port with the 60mm and have had great results. 40mm was...

I'm doing a week in Maui. At home in Monterey I usually shoot macro because rarely is vis more than 10'. I want to focus on wide angle and try some over/under shots. My widest lens is (FF equiv) 24mm f/5.6. I'm planning to rent one (or two) lenses for my upcoming trip: FF equiv: 16mm f/3.6...

Man you weren't kidding. This listing was gone in two days.

Back when I got my Hero 3+ I used this Light and Motion combo; they were 700 lumen lights back then. I use the Backscatter flip 3.1 with both the 10+ and 15+ macromate mini. I put the 15+ on the side and 10+ on top. I shot medium angle. The 15+ would hit the locline arm but it was fully out of...

I treated myself to an early Xmas in Oct. Picked up an EM 5 mkII, M Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, and the Meikon housing/dome to go with it. As much as I would have liked to wait for whatever EM 5 mkIII news Oly might have pushed out around this time, I had a handful of vacation dives coming up before...

I use a Meikon/Sea Frogs housing with their dome port on my EM5 mkII. This was after discussion in this thread and although I wish I could afford the Nauticam but I'm currently prioritizing replacing my vid lights with strobes. So I use a 12-40 f/2.8 and have to set the focal length before the...

Hmm, I figured as much. Thanks for the advice. I really want to squeeze in a couple of night dives but my buddy is almost blind and hasn't done night before. Shame.

I regularly dive in Monterey, California where vis ranges from 5'-25' on average. Up until now I've been able to get by with dual L&M Gobe 700 lumen flood video lights for GoPro. Just upgraded to Olympus EM5 mk II. The lights do ok because I've always been doing macro. Next week I'll be going...

Make sure to remove the rubber eye piece by sliding it up off the camera. I also took off the little strap anchors as well but that might not be necessary. The camera should sit firmly in the housing and more or less square up with the brackets that hold it in place. I use the recording button...

Thanks @MaxBottomtime. So you just check it all. I guess strobes and housing are fairly durable; I'll check mine too! And the packing of the components look like a good idea. Also great call with the power strip.

When you travel, what camera gear do you check in and what do you carry on? I'm planning on traveling with a framed internal backpack with my dive gear in there. I figure I'll put the camera housing/dome disassembled and wrapped in clothes somewhere near the core in the protection of my BCD...

So I ended up going with the Meikon housing. Last weekend was my last opportunity to dive before my Hawaii trip next month so I expedited it from Hong Kong. Lack of zoom is a real kick in the butt, but for Monterey I was able to manage. Did two night dives at 25mm and a day dive at 40mm. So far...

Wow good to know, thanks! I expect the E-M5 mkiii sometime soon so I'd better act quickly!

I have the Olympus housing; you're correct in thinking that the 12-40mm won't fit. According to this chart I'd need a port PPO-E02 for the 12-40mm. I see now that it's been discontinued but still available from third party retailers. That Athena port is way out of my budget, wow! I didn't have...

Thanks a bunch for the replies guys. I ended up grabbing the EM5 when I was down in Monterey that weekend. I love it above surface but there's a lot to learn for underwater. Npole is totally right when you say that there's a wide variety of things to shoot underwater (wide vs macro). Because...

I'm on the hunt to upgrade from GoPro 3+ w/ Backscatter +15 and +10 macro lenses w/ dual L&M Gobe 700w. Without a screen I set the camera to take video throughout the dive and pull stills from that. I have little interest in shooting in 4k but I figure I'll get a camera that does so I don't kick...

Hi, hopefully four months isn't considered dredging up a post. Just want to add some cents. I have a GPH 3+ without screen using both Macromate mini +15 and the +10 macro on a flip. I continuously take video at Medium mode at 30 fps. I read somewhere that at a lower framerate you'll get more...

Could have sworn I had already registered here on SB before, but I guess that was DiveBoard, strange. 23/M/Monterey :tmi2: Too many words! Apologies, my coffee kicked in... Anyways, I recently started taking my dive certs somewhere and started getting in the water weekly. I got PADI OW and...