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Jul 20, 2011 · I don't know how the port of the underwater housing and the 'stuff' in the water affect resolution, but (despite the comment above) a 1 m wide print from a 6 x 2 cm crop is absolutely no problem.
- Types of Lenses
- How Does It Work?
- Common Compatibility Issues
- Popular Wet Lenses in The Market
The 2 most common types of wet lenses are Wide Angle and Macro(aka Close-Up). This is derived from the 3 types of underwater photos – Wide Angle, Medium shots and Macro. Medium shots are also known as “Fish Portraits” and don’t require special lenses, since your average camera lens will usually be the ideal focal range to shoot that type. The other...
Wet lenses consist of one or more optical elements and rely on a specific type of lens which they are to be mounted on. As mentioned before, they take into account the thin layer of water between the port and the lens, to deliver optimal quality and sharpness throughout the frame. Naturally, some lenses use higher quality optical elements, which ra...
Due to the large amount of manufacturers in the market, both for cameras and housings, as well as wet lenses, compatibility is something you should take great care with. The easiest solution is to get a lens made by the same manufacturer as the housing. This will likely ensure compatibility and usually easy to figure out which lens you need for you...
Fantasea AOI UWL-09F| US$699 High quality wet wide angle lens, with excellent optics and dome port, for optimal image quality underwater. Compatible with a 67mm thread mount, ideal for compact cameras such as Sony RX100 series and Canon G7X series. Expand your FOV (Field of View) to 130 degrees on a 28mm lens! Nauticam WWL-1 | US$1150 Nauticam’sWide Wet Lens 1 is the result of extensive R&D and excellent engineering. “WWL-1 is the highest quality wet changeable underwater wide angle conversio...
Inon UCL-165 | US$165 This popular +6 lens has been a top choice among beginner underwater photographers for the past few years. It features excellent sharpness and contrast, ideal medium range magnification – enough to make the critters pop, but not too much that it becomes harder to shoot. The great thing about it, is that it’s double threaded (on both front and back) so once you gain more experience in macro shooting, you can add a second lens, stack it on the first, getting a +12 magnific...
Angle: Will you need a wide-angle lens to capture full scenes? Will you be shooting up close and personal with subjects? When you keep these points in mind, you’ll have a better idea of which lens should work best for your underwater shoots. Enhanced underwater photography is a click away.
Underwater photographers often encounter the same problem before a dive—choosing between wide-angle and macro. But why not do both at the same time? Wide-angle macro (or WAM) is a photographic technique that combines a foreground macro subject with a wide-angle background showing the subject’s surroundings.
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Jan 28, 2022 · The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) teamed up with DeepSea Power & Light to create a new underwater camera that records 4K/60p video at up to 4,000 meters beneath the ocean's surface.