One of the questions I have seen is the issue of whether or not the LX-5 lens moves too much to allow an add on lens to work.
The issue is that if the lens is too far away from the front port, you get terrible results.
Well, I finally got to try one (I have the ike and the Inon).
Conditions were terrible for shooting wide angle... vis was between 10 ft and 15 ft, but it was filled with large chunks of stuff...and at 60 to 80, it was way too dark to not use a flash.
I did have to zoom out to 35mm, but that is sort of standard for these lens.
But I did try to take a few images...Josh was nice enough to pose for this shot...he was about 2.5 - 3 ft from me (you can see how it made his arms look smaller:
Only nice thing about the dirty water was that it defused the strobes so much, they actually covered the whole area (they are Oly small strobes).
If I got very far away, the water was making everything blurry, so longer distance things sucked... but I did try this one:
There is some slight blurring in the corners, but the lens thru the flat port has that... so don't think that is much of an issue.
Water is still cold here in the Gulf, so was not that much macro to take images.. but did shoot these:
Not a good photo day, but at least I got wet.
I tried every trick I know to reduce the backscatter... turned the strobes out, removed the defusers (the water made a rather good defuser), and even then, one could see the stuff clearly...but it did make for surprisingly uniform lighting:
After putting the rubber cutout under the 10bar housing, holding it is now a dream (well, except that kevlar 5mm gloves sort of suck to hold anything smooth).
My take is they work (will try the other lens next dive trip and hope the water is better..
Oh, and Jack's i-DAS arms are still the best arms I have ever used....
The issue is that if the lens is too far away from the front port, you get terrible results.
Well, I finally got to try one (I have the ike and the Inon).
Conditions were terrible for shooting wide angle... vis was between 10 ft and 15 ft, but it was filled with large chunks of stuff...and at 60 to 80, it was way too dark to not use a flash.
I did have to zoom out to 35mm, but that is sort of standard for these lens.
But I did try to take a few images...Josh was nice enough to pose for this shot...he was about 2.5 - 3 ft from me (you can see how it made his arms look smaller:
Only nice thing about the dirty water was that it defused the strobes so much, they actually covered the whole area (they are Oly small strobes).
If I got very far away, the water was making everything blurry, so longer distance things sucked... but I did try this one:
There is some slight blurring in the corners, but the lens thru the flat port has that... so don't think that is much of an issue.
Water is still cold here in the Gulf, so was not that much macro to take images.. but did shoot these:
Not a good photo day, but at least I got wet.
I tried every trick I know to reduce the backscatter... turned the strobes out, removed the defusers (the water made a rather good defuser), and even then, one could see the stuff clearly...but it did make for surprisingly uniform lighting:
After putting the rubber cutout under the 10bar housing, holding it is now a dream (well, except that kevlar 5mm gloves sort of suck to hold anything smooth).
My take is they work (will try the other lens next dive trip and hope the water is better..
Oh, and Jack's i-DAS arms are still the best arms I have ever used....
