Never used them, and wondering if they're worth a try. I'll appreciate if any of you guys could share some experiences with them.

I would set it in my wide angle setup (Fujifilm 16-50 f2.8-4.8 + Nauticam MWL-1) for the availabe light dives, adding blue filters to the Z330s in case I need to fire the flash.

By the way, the Fuji 16-50 (58mm filter size) lacks of rear filter holder, and the gap between the lens and the port glass doesn't allow for a screewed frontal filter.

Thanks in advance.

Never used them either, I think I recall threads talking about using sheet filters to place between the WWL and port or inside. Note Magic filters don't recommend using their filters outside. Ballistically they allow you to shoot with a custom white balance and are well balanced between 5 and 15m depth maybe up to 20m.

On the topic of blue filters, you lose a lot of flash power when using them as you lose light through both the blue filter and the magic filter. The flash acts like fill flash and doesn't really brighten up the image colours at all and will have the same look as your shots without flash , just the shadows are filled in. Basically you are trying the match the light spectrum of your strobes to ambient light at your current depth with the blue filters This is quite similar to the mixed light problem with video which has been discussed at great length on Wetpixel:

https://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?/topic/69260-solving-the-mixed-light-problem/

The basic summary is the blue filter needs to be selected according to depth and match the magic/red filter and it only does this properly within a certain depth range. Hopefully you can access the old wetpixel site as it is blocked unless you are logged in. The result you get is balanced images but to me from some of the videos posted the the colours are a little muted. You can of course adjust WB in raw but you can only adjust it to ambient or flash lighting not both unless they match.

Thank you Chris, still digesting all the information contained in the wp thread. Specially interesting the link to Interceptor's article.

Hi there, I didn't really chime in because you were mostly asking about stills, but for if you're also interested in video there's info you might be interested in this thread here:

https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/1414-ur-pro-filters-info/

But for video, my focus was not so much on the Magic as the now gone, yet legendary UR-Pro Cyan filter (spoiler alert, the closest candidate is a Rosco Fluorofilter, now also off the shelves due do LED lights). Another solid option is the Keldan Spectrum, as discussed.

Otherwise Dreisfish's amazing WeP thread listed above has been transfered over here to Waterpixels for posterity and future discussions:
https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/1413-red-filters-and-blue-ambient-light-filters-for-mixed-light-shooting

cheers!

ben

Edited Sunday at 04:44 AM4 days by bghazzal

Thank you bghazzal,

Yes, mostly interested in stills, but the video threads are interesting too.

Best Regards.