Hi, Glad you liked it. Just some generic ebay video lights from China. Ebay lights work ok but you need to take rsk when buying that you might get bad ones.

May I also please ask, are the diving lines already down there or did someone go ahead and lay them down for you before you dove? Just curious to know if anyone with a scuba ticket can do this?

Glad you liked it. Its fun diving around an old town

Hi. No the lines are not there permanently. We ran the lines ourselves. We took them back out when we left. I mean technically if you have the GPS coordinates and have your own gear there is nothing stopping anyone diving there. I would suggest it's not the place for people who don't have a lot more than just a recreational scuba tickets. We for example are all experienced cave divers and rebreather divers. It is cold, deep, dark and at altitude.

Why? Isn't SNUBA limited to 20 ft?

That blue thing at 2:25! Whoa! What the heck is that. Super in focus too. Again on a GoPro!? You're using some magic on that GoPro haha.

It was very funny. In the unedited video you can hear my laughing. I was surprised he stayed so calm as they were relentless swimming into him. Im not really sure why they liked his hood. The yellow stripe or maybe the little stream of bubbles but they weren't rubbing into me. I've dived with Kingfish a lot and never had them do it before. The wonders of underwater.

Yep filmed on gopro with the macromate. They are a type of tunicate I believe. They are quite common growing on pylons in South Australia.

@@seanpe80 So pretty! So you just switched over to the macromate when you saw it? Nice to have that option for sure. Beautiful world!

@@seanpe80 Those types of mysteries keep me going back. I always wonder if it will get old or I'll get bored. That's not out of the question but I don't see it happening. Cause you can always see more sights, travel to new places and endlessly explore. Loved how they were diving through the regulator hose. Although it had me a bit worried for a moment, wouldn't want them to know that reg out of his mouth! A scuba friend has a funny story of a crab that grabbed his reg hose and pulled it out of his mouth. Not sure if it's true or not but wouldn't be surprised if it were! It really does feel like space exploration (what I imagine that would be like) which is why it's so fascinating.

Thanks. Glad you liked it. Actually this was a really basic setup. As it was a family holiday and we were only doing 1 day of diving all I took was the Gopro, a single tray and 1 light. There is no external lenses used. As it was clear and we were 12m or less plus I didn't use red filters it meant I could keep the iso from going to high which helps. Diving can add up cost wise. Luckily where I live you can often dive without dive shops. So if I go for a dive at home its very cheap as I just need the fuel to get there and to run my compressor to fill a tank. Of course Ill ignore the years of training and the cost of all my gear, compressor and boat and claim its cheap for me to dive :)

@@seanpe80 Haha! Those are all investments! Investments into mental health I say. Something that many people don't invest enough in. So I'm all for it! I need to get that feeling of being underwater for 45 minutes straight again it's unreal. Continue to be impressed by the quality you're getting out of the GoPro. I need to check my render settings again haha! Well our waters aren't nearly as clear, especially in the summer! A lot of what we like to call "whale snot" heh. Just being in the water is such a peaceful feeling though. Inspiring to consider that even shallow scuba dives can be great!

Hi mate. As it was a family holiday I took a very basic setup. It was a gopro with a single handle and one light. I also only had one set of batteries for the light so it was running out in the end.

Thanks. It was great as it was the first time we had all dived together at once. It was basically my daughters first dives and my wife hadn't dived in 15 years. I also did my Instructors course in Phuket far to long ago to admit.

Thanks! Glad you liked it

Glad you enjoyed it!

Also incredibly beautiful sea life! Where was this? God the ocean is so wonderful and interesting.

I really like the lens. The little bit closer to your subject and the sharper focus makes a difference

Glad you liked it. This is filmed where I live in Portland, Victoria, Australia.

@@seanpe80 That is nice. The thing that is stopping me from getting it is in some shots you can see the reflection of the lens. Not in this video but others when shooting towards light. Other than that it seems very nice.

That can happen with any wet lens. Its only one tool for use in certain shots not to just put on and forget. In fact in certain conditions even just the gopro itself will reflect off the underwater housing (I have that issue in caves quite a bit). Having the hood in the right spot and knowing your angles is the key. Also there is plenty of limitations with each setup so that's why I use the flip system. For example the AOI is terrible above water and I never try and use it when rolling into the water (it gets bubbles etc and all out of focus). It is also really only works with wide FOV. It is also easy to scratch so I rarely do tech dives with it. Next choice is no lens and the problem here is the focus distances are terrible, the FOV is narrower so between the two you need to be further away from a subject and its not as sharp. Next option is the macromate but it only works in a very very specific distance from a subject and is only good at small creatures who don't move. The macromate also suffers from reflections sometimes. I really like the lens but its not some massive difference and is only for certain shots. Just like the macromate. Or even the difference between adding anything to your gopro. I have great shots from 5m of water with no housing and stock settings but as you learn to adjust settings, use gopro labs, add a housing, a tray, lights, tripods, lenses, floatation etc etc it just increases what shots you can get. Which is pretty amazing given its price compared to a real camera. Its not a must have though and I'd probably put it as the last add on for a system. Hope that helps

Hi, glad you liked it. Sorry for late reply but been away. As a general rule I use 5k60 wide. -0.5 EV protune on with high bit rate. iso 100 to 400. These days I use gopro labs so I can fix the wb and shutter speed but I wasnt using it back when I did this video.

Hi, Sorry for late reply but I have been away. I am afraid I have no idea. Ive never used a DJI action camera. The lens is not specifically made for the gopro but you will need to find a way to attach it.

@@seanpe80 no worries and thank you so much for your information 😄

Thanks. Glad you liked it. Just got back from Thailand but was a family trip so only did one day of diving. I head to Indo soon so should have some more videos coming

@@seanpe80 Wow you get around! We're off again back to Thailand in November for a wedding.

Thanks!

Thanks mate. Hope the weather has warmed up for you now that summer has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. Water here has now dropped to 14 degrees.

Thanks. Glad you liked it. I don't get to dive it often as it faces the southern ocean so you need calm weather.

Not sure. I hope it will but given the next GoPro will likely be here in 4months it might be worth waiting to see. This lens isn't specifically built for GoPro so as long as someone makes an attachment and they don't suddenly make the camera larger than it should.

Glad you enjoyed it

I mainly use wide. It works with linear. It just wont work with superview

Thanks for watching. Glad you liked it

I have a backscatter flip system and I turned the AOI into a 55mm thread so I can attach to the flip system. Its a little large but it still lets me choose between the AOI wide, no lens or macromate lens just by flipping them

@@seanpe80 that sounds perfect. I wonder why GoPro don't make something themselves. The AOI and backscatter accessories are so expensive!

@@seanpe80 That flip system sounds so interesting. Are you using the underwater housing with the huge monitor so you can actually see the difference clearly when you flip it? That's pretty wild you can just flip to a macro lens.

@@seanpe80 So at 1:37 are you flipping to the AOI wide or the macromate lens?

No. I do it with just the gopro. Its just practice to learn the distance and then if Im not sure I might take 2 or 3 shots at different distances. The marcomate can be tricjy at first. The AOI is more forgiving.

Hi. Yep I have the flip system from Backscatter. I only use the macromate mini lens from it though and the actual flip section. I have turned my AOI lens into a 55mm thread so I can use that on the flip system as I like to have option of wide or macro and not taking lenses off and on underwater and storing them somewhere. I currently use the gopro 11. I certainly recommend the macromate mini and the AOI 03 lens. I don't use the red filters at all. I would get lights and a tray first. The macromate without lights is not very good. Glad you like the footage.

@@seanpe80 Hi, awesome footage !! :-) I am trying to look for a similar system for my gopro as well to swap between macro and wide. Can I confirm that for your setup, you used the backscatter flip with macromate mini +15 on one, and FLIP FILTERS 55mm filter holder on the other? And for the AOI UWL-03 you got it with the AOI 55mm Threaded Lens Adapter? Can I check with you that the AOI 55mm Threaded Lens Adapter is compatible with the FLIP FILTERS 55mm Filter Holder for the FLIP system? Could not find anywhere online that has a similar setup as yours and would like to confirm it is compatible before making the purchase 🙂 Thank you so much once again!!

Hi, yes thats what I have. Its not perfect but it does work. From my googling and working it out I could only really see a couple of options. 1. be stuck with one lens for the dive and keep installing different brackets each time. 2. Get the AOI macro lens but I wasn't sure that it was going to work as well as the macromate and you would need to swap lenses underwater and put one somewhere or 3. Do what I did and add a 55mm adaptor and use the flip system. The issue you will find is the AOI is so large that it won't flip back and lock in place. You will need to hold it back but it is out of frame. I can do it with one hand on my dual handle system. I have thought about adding a rubber band or similar to loop over the handle but I haven't done that yet as the lens does have a little eyelet on it where you could add it to. Hope that helps.

​@seanpe80 awesome, thanks for the clarification! finding out that an eyelet exists on the lens definitely convinced me to get the flip system as opposed to having 2 different AOI lenses and mounting on and off the dive tray.. the mounts on the trays aren't cheap as well haha have you experimented keeping the macromate on the vertical axis and the AOI on the horizontal?

Hi, I have tried it both ways. My preference is the way you mentioned. Its easier to keep the aoi lens from swinging in the horizontal axis then falling down. Its quite a heavy lens in comparison to the rest. Some of ease will depend on how much space you have to the tray handle. The one Im using it will touch the left handle so I can hold with my fingers. The other thing I am thinking of trying is getting another tray that has adjustable widths and see if I can get the handles at a width that the lens will sort of get stuck lightly by the handle so it stays in place if that makes sense.

Yes. All apart from the close up of the seadragons tail which was with a macromate mini. I installed an adaptor on the AOI to make it a 55mm thread so I can use it on the backscatter flip system. Its not perfect but it means I can change btw AOI wide angle, no lens or macromate mini in one dive.

I shoot in 5k60 wide with the AOI wide angle lens and 5k60 narrow with a macromate mini both in 16:9. Neither will work in 8:7 if thats what you are using but at 16:9 it should be fine.

What kind of ISO max are you shooting?

I keep it at 400 max unless Im in a large cave then I might go to 800 if I have to.

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks. I was impressed he kept his cool. They either liked the bubbles or the yellow stripe as they didn't do it to me

Its great. Only wish it worked with raw photos but most wet lenses have the issue of not being wide enough to use full sensor. As for 16:9 wide though it is awesome

@@seanpe80 I think this lens with go pro cameras is really aimed at the point and shoot video market rather than stills. There are better systems for shooting stills anyway where you need to access all the camera controls. Proof of the pudding is in your clip of the wobby - it's simply stunning! There is another AOI user over here in SA - Andy over on Crab e cam - really nice stuff. kzbin.info/door/fG69Gw0vmpaC3mnfKWMdFw

Thanks.The wobby is quite a regular on that reef and she is big. I want to get a shot with someone beside her to actually show how large she is. She can get a little grumpy though. Ill check out Andy.

Just checked out Andy's and your channels and subscribed to both! Thanks. If you ever in Portland, Vic then let me know and if weather plays kind I can try and find you my friend the Wobby

@@seanpe80 Thanks for the kind offer. We don't get down that way much these days but dived around the wharf at Portland and on the Emily S when we lived in Mt Gambier. We did our CDAA examinations with none other than Frank Ziegler! My older brother worked on the Emily as engineer and rebuilt the Crossley diesel engine on it when it worked roughy fishing around Tassie and in the Bight. It was owned by Tony Santic of Makybe Diva fame at the time. I've only had the lens for a short while and plan to post a few videos down the track.

Thank you

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Thanks. Finding music is always the hardest part in editing I find

Thanks!

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I can't say I've ever got that thirsty but its fresh water cave so you could just drink it. I always have water with me for between dives. Water temp is only around 15 degrees all year so not much sweating apart from climbing in and out.

Lots of training helps

Thanks a ton!

A lot of training, gear and planning but we are a little mad as well :)

No need for anything fancier. I've tried other fins and honestly just end up back with the standard fins. Rubber bungy straps about the only thing that's got better in past 20 years.

Thanks

It takes a lot of training before we go down into these sort of caves. It certainly requires you to be happy it tight places though.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks!

Thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed it.

Yes dual handle tray with two cheap lights off ebay. If Im shooting wide angle I generally shoot 5k60 wide with high bitrate, auto WB, -0.5 EV and max ISO 400 max. Then with macro lens I generally shoot 5k60 linear zoomed in with same as before or when trying to get closer fish shots without macro. Then I normally half the speed when editing. Sometimes I shoot 4k120 if I want to slow the shot even more. This video also has some shots in supverview as well. It sort of depends on what Im trying to do. Lights are the best investment as all action cameras are ordinary in low light.

Glad you enjoyed it