Underwater camera setup

Dann-Oh wrote:

SafariBob wrote:

Dann-Oh wrote:

If you want to go for an option 2.5 (if you will) take a look at the Olympus EPL10. Back scatter has a package where you can get the camera and housing for pretty good price. you could easily expand this to a dedicated Wide angle or Macro rig if you want to. Or you can get wet lenses if you want the option to do everything on one dive.

I think picking up a "vintage" ILC with housing could make a lot of sense, but from what I could see it would be 650 for the housing alone, at which point, presumably, just getting a housing for my sony gear would make more sense.

Where are you getting vintage from? the Olympus EPL10 4 years newer than your A7rii and its 4 months newer than your A7riv.

I don't mean vintage for this specifically, but I am willing to consider other system and bodies if the overall cost savings make it worth while

You clearly are a Sony F@n B*y and dont want to consider anything else.

You would rather get a cheap housing for your sony than invest in a good uw system thats not sony.

I am already invested with bodies etc. in sony, so using existing gear saves me the cost of acquiring new bodies. I think their 200-600 lens is amazing, and certain other emount lenses like the 12-24 f4 and 35-150 f2-2.8. But I also like other manufactures, including Olympus, Nikon (z9 & 400 2.8 tc), canon (r5, 100-500), Leica M cameras. Love the Olympus color science!

Where I think Sony could improve is the excessive segmentation (6 different lines of full frames) and lack of firmware updates (apart from real time tracking on a9 and pdaf on adapted lenses on the gen 2s).