Diopter for Canon RF100 recommendation

[Landvogt1893]

Hello everyone,

I’m currently looking for a new diopter. So far, I’ve been shooting with a Canon R5 and the RF 100 in a Nauticam housing, currently using the SMC-1 and SMC-2. The SMC-1 has already been sold and will be replaced with an SMC-3.

I’d also like to replace the SMC-2, as it’s simply too specialized and hardly usable due to its very short minimum focusing distance.

 

Would you recommend replacing the SMC-2 with a CMC-1 or something from the AOI series? Maybe the 90 or 900 Pro?

[CaolIla]

Hi, Hallo
I have like you a R5 with the RF100 a SMC-1  Happy with this setup.

I'm looking for an other wet-lens with more magnification as the SMC-1...   I was looking for the SMC-2... 

If you sale it... I can be interessed. 

 

[Chris Ross]

4 hours ago, Landvogt1893 said:

Hello everyone,

I’m currently looking for a new diopter. So far, I’ve been shooting with a Canon R5 and the RF 100 in a Nauticam housing, currently using the SMC-1 and SMC-2. The SMC-1 has already been sold and will be replaced with an SMC-3.

I’d also like to replace the SMC-2, as it’s simply too specialized and hardly usable due to its very short minimum focusing distance.

 

Would you recommend replacing the SMC-2 with a CMC-1 or something from the AOI series? Maybe the 90 or 900 Pro?

The CMC-1 is more powerful compared to the SMC-1, the CMC-2 is similar in power to the SMC-1 with slightly more working distance.

 

The Port chart for the RF-100 has magnifications and working distances for all the Nauticam diopters, the CMC-1 sits between the SMC-1 and SMC-2 in power: 

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iTINzEby0S-7GndOhEjQZRP-CgyumZx3/view

 

You can see that the CMC-2 has very similar magnification to the SMC-3 with very slightly more working distance.  UNless you feel you need a little more power than the SMC-3 It doesn't seem like any of the Nauticam diopters offer anything in the way of improvement.   The CMC-1 offers a little more power but almost in the same boat as the SMC-2 for working distance.

 

What are you looking for?  a bit more power than the SMC-1 or a bit less with more working distance?  It does get hard to compare lenses from different manufacturers as they all use different methods to rate them and there are very few comparison tests between brands out there.