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Sea Frogs Sony a7riii housing review?

Started Oct 21, 2018 | Discussions thread
Barmaglot_07 Contributing Member • Posts: 633
Re: Sea Frogs Sony a7riii housing review?

You could be the first! Kidding aside, looking at photos, they've taken some questionable design choices - the vacuum port is on the left side of the housing, where tray handle will interfere with pump attachment - it seems like you'll have to remove the camera from the tray to attach the pump. Zoom knob location also doesn't look optimal, way down below like that you'll have to either spin it with your pinky, or reposition your left hand off the tray handle. Also, it looks like they're only including a zoom gear for 28-70mm lens, not for either 16-35mm options or for 12-24mm. No optical fiber bulkhead for use with LED triggers either.

Semi-offtopic, but Pavel Kolpakov of UW-Technics announced a version of their TTL converter for Meikon housings a few days ago - it replaces Meikon's standard moisture detector and has both wired and optical trigger options, with profiles for Inon, Sea & Sea and Ikelite strobes. Unfortunately, for now, it only supports Canon cameras, but Pavel says that he's working on reverse-engineering Sony's TTL protocol, and a TTL converter for Sony cameras is in the works.

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