cleomagic
Contributor
My wife and I have Sony RX100 Cameras in Nauticam housings. We are ready to purchase Macro and Wide Angle lenses. After reading everything we can on lenses and talking to our local underwater camera shop, we are still not quite sure what to do. As the Nauticam housing is natively threaded 67mm, the obvious answer is to purchase threaded lenses (which is the route our dive photo store recommends). However, we recognize that changing these lenses underwater is more challenging than the bayonet mount. Which leaves us in our predicament. Using 67mm threaded lenses is straightforward and we know it will work, but AD mount lenses would be easier to change. Here are the 2 options we've narrowed it down to.
Option 1 67mm
Will the AD mount option even work? Or will it leave it with vignetting or other undesirable artifacts (i.e. out of focus)?
Our intent is to purchase 2 identical Macro lenses (+5 to +7) that we could stack if/when we wanted to shoot super-macro (Which eliminated the SubSea Macro lenses)
We're looking at one 100-110 degree WA lens (better for video) and one Fisheye Lens (for bigger and closer objects). It's just too hard to justify spending and extra $500-600 for the Inon Wide Angle plus dome over the Fisheye. However, if the Fisheye with the adapters won't give us good pictures, we may just go with the 67mm solution.
There is a huge price difference in adapters and lenses between the Inon AD mount and the Inon LD mount, so that's another large dollar amount to swallow to consider going to LD.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/recommendations/experiences. Ultimately, we probably won't know for sure exactly what works for us until we have all the gear underwater, and by then the money is already spent.
Option 1 67mm
- Camera 1 (Nauticam RX100)
- Macro: Dyron +7 or Inon UCL-165M67
- Wide Angle: BlueWater WA-110/Ikelite W-30 (110 degrees)
- Camera 2 (Nauticam RX100)
- Macro: Dyron +7 or Inon UCL-165M67
- Wide Angle:
- Fix UWL-04 M52/M67 Step Down Ring (FIX UWL-04 M52/67 Step Down Ring)
- Fisheye FIX 28M52 or Fisheye FIX UWL-04
- Camera 1 (Nauticam RX100)
- 67mm Male to AD Female (Adapter 67mm Male -> AD Female)
- Macro: Inon UCL-165AD
- Wide Angle: UWL-H100 28AD (100 degrees)
- Camera 2 (Nauticam RX100)
- 67mm Male to AD Female (Adapter 67mm Male -> AD Female)
- Macro (configured to allow Macro lens to be stacked on other camera):
- 67mm Female to AD Male (Adapter 67mm Female -> AD Male)
- Inon UCL-165M67
- Wide Angle:
- 67mm Female to AD Male (Adapter 67mm Female -> AD Male)
- Nauticam M67 to M52 Adapter Ring (Nauticam M67 to M52 Adaptor Ring)
- Fisheye FIX 28M52 or Fisheye FIX UWL-04
Will the AD mount option even work? Or will it leave it with vignetting or other undesirable artifacts (i.e. out of focus)?
Our intent is to purchase 2 identical Macro lenses (+5 to +7) that we could stack if/when we wanted to shoot super-macro (Which eliminated the SubSea Macro lenses)
We're looking at one 100-110 degree WA lens (better for video) and one Fisheye Lens (for bigger and closer objects). It's just too hard to justify spending and extra $500-600 for the Inon Wide Angle plus dome over the Fisheye. However, if the Fisheye with the adapters won't give us good pictures, we may just go with the 67mm solution.
There is a huge price difference in adapters and lenses between the Inon AD mount and the Inon LD mount, so that's another large dollar amount to swallow to consider going to LD.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/recommendations/experiences. Ultimately, we probably won't know for sure exactly what works for us until we have all the gear underwater, and by then the money is already spent.
