New pics from Maldives made with Pana Gx7 in Nauticam housing

[scipionems]

Hi to all,
here https://www.flickr.com/photos/scipio2010/sets/72157649490787604/with/16884358418/ you can see some pictures made in Maldives with Pansonic Gx7 in Nauticam housing and two Inon Z240 strobes.
Most of the pictures are made with Panasonic P-zoom G-vario 14-42mm lens + Inon UWL-H100 Ld Wet wide lens or Inon UCL 165 wet macro lens.

Scipionems

 

[shaker]

Hi Scipione,

Nice Photos, as usual!
The Inon UWL-H100 is a compact and heavy lens, how is the buoyancy underwater? Do you use a flip holder and does it work with WA lenses?
The combo seems to produce sharper images (especially on the corner) than the 9-18mm you already used with the 4" dome port! Is it wide enough, or is it less wider then the 9-18mm?

 

[scipionems]

Hi Shaker,
Thank you very much
The Inon UWL-H100 is fantastic and sharper than the Oly 9-18mm, but it is very heavy underwater, all the set is very negative.
The angle of view of the 14-42+Inon Uwl-H100 is of 100 degrees , very similar to angle of the 9-18 mm.
I use the LD version of the Uwl-H100 and i attach the lens in front of the M67 Nauticam Macro Port 35 using the Nauticam Adapter M67-LD.
With this adapter I have no vignetting at all , because the Panasonic 14-42mm G-vario Powerzoom is very short and zooming-in there is a very short excursion of the lens inside the Nauticam Macroport 35.
When i don't use the Inon Uwl-H100, I attach the lens on a Inon double Ld Lens holder attached on one of the arm of my rig.
The advantage of this set is the versatility, because you can use the Inon UWl-H100 for wide pictures or a Inon Ucl 165LD for macro picture....
The only problem is the negative buoyancy of all the set, after three dives my arms are very tired
Surely the Oly 9-18mm + 4" dome port have a neutral bouyancy, but i prefer of the 14-42mm + Inon Uwl-H100 ...... (probably because deep inside i am already a compact photographer) .
Scipionems

---------- Post added April 14th, 2015 at 03:01 PM ----------

Here https://youtu.be/_hsW5LdptCQ you can see a short video of Mantas made with the Pansonic Gx7 in Nauticam housing with Pana 14-42mm Gvario Pzoom + Inon Uwl-H100 LD wet wide lens
Scipionems