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The 60mm is easier to use- but the 105 will get you shots of better scale with flighty pelagic fish or gobbies and blennies. Ambient light shots the 60mm is great http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream

 

 

Do gobbies make a lot of angry noises underwater? Or is that a joke that only a Brit would follow?

 

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A gobby (mouthy) shark...

Went to the Auto store and bought a foam car polisher that would fit on a hand drill.  So for about $40 and 15-20 minutes of time was able to buff the deep scratch out to the point the dome worked fine.  $1160 saved.  

 

Lucky, I guess: if the glass heats up, it will crack...

 

... there's an art to polishing glass, which I've (expensively) not mastered.

It looks pretty cool, if not actually Lembeh...

I actually find that shooting over/unders with 45° viewfinder is a pain as the water gathers in the eyepiece.
 

 
Turn the 45-degree finder sideways....


I'm only an upstart Nikonian, but the functional difference between Nauticam and Seacam isn't great. If you're rich, well...
 
... but Nauticam have impressed me with their service and reaction to customer's problems. There's an engineering elegance to Seacam, and a slightly inelegant cleverness to Nauticam housings...
 
... but a housing in production is worth any number of housings in the pipeline.
 
Don't be put off when your terrestrial photographic skills betray you into complete incompetence underwater: the learning curve is like a particularly vicious roller coaster, or climbing a black run in ski boots!

 Why are we governed by such morons?

 

 

I refer you to a recent funeral...