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I have traveled in the Pacific region...a LOT. I have never been asked for the credit card. I may have a problem in my next trip to Lembeh and West Papua. Another person purchased my ticket, but I will not be traveling with them as they are only joining the second half of the trip. Do you envision a problem with that?

You might. When i book on silkair/singapore airlines, there's always a check box that asks if the credit card owner is travelling on the trip. It really is quite troublesome. At the check in counter, usually it involves calling the credit card company to cancel the previous charge (even if the bill has been paid) and charging the cost of the ticket to the new credit card.

well... I might get housing first. Dry housing will motivate me to buy camera.

Nice series bro.

Can you please explain how you're using a 60mm Canon macro with a NEX in the Nauticam 6 housing? 

 

I would think the 60mm is physically too wide for the Nauticam ports. What combination of ports, extension rings, focus gears, etc are you using to get this to work? There are so many of us wanting MF macro for our NEX housings.  

 

I suspect this is not the Nautocam housing you are referring too, yet your profile photo says Nauticam?

 

I'm currently using the 18-55mm kit lens with a Aquatica +10 stacked on top of a F.I.T +5 to get decent macro. I'd switch in a heartbeat if I could get a Canon 60mm macro and Metabones to work with my Nauticam NA-NEX7 housing and MF.

 

Please share your info on how you're doing this. 

 

Your photos looked great!

 

Thank You

Edward is the owner of Nauticam so I'm pretty sure that it's a Nauticam housing. 

I think a lot of people forget that the rules of a shootout competition are there for 2 reasons:

1.  To try to give all contestants a fair playing field and to challenge the entrants to get the best out of them.

2.  To make the judges job as simple as possible on the final day.

 

It takes hours to go through the entries and a the cropping rule is easy to check with the raw file.

 

By some of the arguments here competitions should not ask for a raw file as older digital cameras cannot shoot them without a huge write delay. That would be a huge disadvantage.   So should competitions just ask for Jpegs?

One competition did. The 1st Asian Underwater Federation Photography competition organized under CMAS. Out of camera jpegs allowed only. Some really strict rules in that competition.