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Is the Abyss faceplate metal or plastic? I have some metal and plastic Mares Protons from that era with a similar 'sieve' look - the plastic faceplates became brittle over time and cracked/broke off when purged. The metal ones are still fine. Otherwise just get it serviced and dive away...

I was thinking about exactly this camera earlier today: so OM Systems - that's two of us who will buy it: get cracking. Please add a body that is waterproof to 60m, bayonet mount for wet lenses and built-in fiber optic sockets/led flash trigger. You can thank me later. I truly do not...

Does anyone here shoot with Olympus's circular fisheye converter (FCON-T02) accessory lens, and if so, care to share some photos? Also - for folks shooting wide angle with a TG (and any wet lens): how does it go with sunbursts? Does the lack of manual control and small sensor size mean...

Thats correct - if you are in the terminal transit hotel you stay in the airport, and don't go out through customs. Thats not a bad thing: ICN is a great airport. If you want to lounge around the Hyatt (or another hotel in the area) and/or go into town then head out through customs, grab you...

Seoul has some great restaurants. If you love Korean food (and you should) I would check into an airport hotel, then catch the train into Seoul (or taxi into Incheon) and try one of the better Korean barbeque places. You will likely need a taxi and the location in Korean (ie google map on your...

Well, some reports suggest the average human attention span has decreased from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds pre-covid. Sitting here watching my teenager surf Tiktok videos I daresay it's half that nowadays. For comparison, a goldfish apparently has an attention span of 9 seconds. Most of...

Just take slow deep breaths when diving, usually with a pause at the end of the exhale. This is the most efficient breathing pattern in terms of air consumption and helps you relax. Breathing faster and shallower like on land makes buoyancy adjustments through breathing more difficult: there...

Nice find! It sounds like a wide-angle or fish-eye wet lens: adding this to your housing will allow you to capture a wider area in your photos (ie reefscapes, close ups of larger marine life, etc). These wet lenses are designed to work with specific lenses/focal lengths. While it may attach to...

I'm next door in Hobart and ordered from the HW website. They shipped from Germany and it took just over a week to arrive. You'll need to source the 14500 battery locally as DHL don't seem to transport lithium batteries. I agree if you're based in the US/Canada then Shearwater is the way to go.

I went down your path recently and, after a lot of time online, settled on German manufacture Heinrich Weikamp (HW) https://heinrichsweikamp.com/ostc-plus.html If you want Buhlmann algorithms with adjustable gradient factors (which you do) then I would rate HW and Shearwater as the top...

Do let us know when Gramy has a prototype out: be nice to see it. While digital gauges/computers are accurate, some folks such as myself like the look and feel of an analogue gauge. If you are looking for a market opportunity, consider combining your capillary gauge with a simple watch with...

How experienced are you with cold water diving? You can't go wrong with Poor Knights and the GBR. As the GBR is off the coast the best way to see it is a 4-5 day liveaboard out of Cairns/Port Douglas. Sydney also has some pleasant local dives. Ningaloo is famous for whale sharks, but they...

Thanks for your replies - I can see a weekend project building a drysuit dryer in my near future. I remember seeing a nice DIY one using PCV pipes a long time ago: will see if I can find the original post. Being lazy I was just throwing the suit into the bath with the rest of my gear, and...

Thanks - reinforce to reduce the amount of stress on the fabric adjacent to hard points - and so reduce its tendency to tear and leak.

Folks: what’s the best way to reinforce the inside of a trilam drysuit? My suit is a year old, and there's been a few pinhole leaks adjacent to solid attachments (i.e. around the pee valve or next to the built-in dry glove rings). It’s totally user error: I haven’t exactly been gentle when...

Seeing you're in the UK you may wish to consider Heinrich Weikamp / OSTC range of computers. https://heinrichsweikamp.com Similar in features to Shearwater but with, in my personal opinion, a better display and layout. The OSTC+ has a user-replaceable 14500 rechargeable battery that recharges...

Just get a PVC duffle like the one suggested by Pressurehead. Most have removable shoulder straps. I used to use a wheeled carrier - until I realised that ~25% of my luggage weight allowance was taken up by the bag. Do go with a non-diving brand to make it less of a target- although I think...

To be honest, as this is your first foray into underwater photography I would probably go with a Oly TG-6 with a housing and strobe, or a PL10 with interchangeable lenses and a good upgrade path: both are suitable for the subjects you suggest and have a lot of online documentation to help you...

Its best to start by considering what lens you need to get the photos you want. For instance - I do a lot of wide-angle photography. Neither Sony or Fuji have a fisheye lens. I can however use an adaptor on the Sony that allows me to fit a canon/nikon/oly fish eye, but to do so I then need to...

Depends: what sort of photography do you prefer (macro, wide, action, etc) and what lens do you need to achieve it? Once you specify a lens, we can discuss housings, lighting, accessories and, lastly and least importantly, the camera.