Marelux Ambassador and underwater photographer Kate Jonker kindly provides a report of her experiences using the Marelux SOFT Pro snoot. It is profusely illustrated with wonderful images of the native macro subjects of her home dive sites at Gordon’s Bay near Cape Town.
Underwater Technics is shipping their TTL circuit board for Canon cameras in Marelux housings. It offers both optical and electrical strobe triggering, from and rear curtain sync, and HSS with compatible strobes. It also operates via the camera’s flash control menu
Phil Rudin (@Phil Rudin) kindly shares his thoughts about the new Marelux housing for the Sony a1 mirrorless camera. Marelux is a new player on the underwater camera housing scene and offers housings for mirrorless Sony, Nikon, and Canon cameras, along with anticipated housings for top-end video cameras. Phil gives a thorough rundown of the housing’s pedigree and his impressions from being able to use a prototype version underwater.
Marelux is shipping their Smart Optical Flash Tube (SOFT) strobe output shaping device. Compatible with Sea&Sea YS D2, YS D3, Inon Z240, Z330, and Retra Flash Pro X strobes, it offers an adjustable light shape-controlled via an external dial and has a built-in battery-powered aiming light.
Underwater photographer Vladimir Mladenovic introduces the Marelux brand to the Wetpixel community. He is a brand ambassador and shareholder in the company. Marelux is producing a series of aluminum housings and accessories for mirrorless cameras, including Canon EOS R5/R6, Nikon Z6II/7II, Sony Alpha 7mk3/mk4, Sony Alpha 1 along with Sony FX3 and Arri ALEXA Mini LF video cameras.