Macro Rig Buoyancy
For videographers who’ve dialed in / measured the buoyancy specifics of their macro setup — curious to hear how many grams negative you’ve found to be the most effective balance for keeping things stable on the tripod while being light enough to not feel cumbersome throughout the dive.
A kilo? 500g enough to counter some movement in the water? Just aiming to finesse 🙂
Thanks all!
Cheers,
Bronson
On my macro video compact rig, I started out super negative (-1.5kg) but are now currently only a little negative.
That said, I use a quadripod, not a tripod, and the rig is really stable, even when close to being neutrally buoyant.
Buoyancy varies with the diopters I use (Inon UCL165, AOI-09, CMC-1 or stacked combinations of these), but I love it like this.
When i started out really negative, the legs would dig deep into the fine vocanic sand we have here in eas
