11 hours ago, ChipBPhoto said:

This is most excellent news! I was thinking it would fit. Good to know. The 30mm macro may also fit? He doesn’t have the special gear needed to flip the macro switch mid-dive and I’m not a fan of $800+ to add it. I prefer to dive/photo with purpose rather than a do-everything approach.

The 30mm macro is limited to about 0.5x for practical purposes, min focus of 1:1 is close to right on the port glass and hard to achieve and light. The 60mm macro is the best option IMO, the Pany 45mm is also a possibility, but the lens will probably cost more. If you want only one macro lens for me 60mm > 45mm > 30mm. The only downside of the 60mm is you have to backup quite a bit for bigger subjects.

On 12/27/2025 at 1:46 AM, Davide DB said:

I had the cheap acrylic Nauticam 4" dome. I was never satisfied of sunballs shots. For that you need a real glass. Nevertheless the whole kit was extremely compact with zero extension. Those ports are tailored on native lens.

This is me 14 years ago with that dome on a GH3 housing.

Umh.. are you sure??

I used the 4.33 acrylic dome with pana and oly 8mm… the problems with sunball shots where mostly due to depth or viz in the water… i got always perfect sunballs in the Red Sea with crystal clear blu water and almost horrible “fried eggs” in Indonesia under 10mt due to less blue and viz.. 😢 I used also a zen dome borrowed from a friend for one trip…

A glass dome is indubitably better, but in reality not so much…😅

I used also the acrylic semidome 4” with both the 8mm.. that’s have bad corners and is really good only for CFWA… 🤷🏻‍♂️

For my experience in the sunball shots depth and cleaning are the biggest problem..

Ps:for the topic… I use an em1mk2 since 2017 and it’s still a great camera in the m4/3 league.. didn’t feel the need of change it for an OM… 😅

Yes, maybe it’s just that I didn't apply myself enough. I've never used a glass mini-dome with the fisheye. All my attempts at shooting video with the sun in the frame turned out unsatisfying and milky.

I also noticed that the port has to be perfectly clean on the inside. The Pana 8mm was able to focus on even the smallest grain of dust internally.

13 hours ago, Davide DB said:

Yes, maybe it’s just that I didn't apply myself enough. I've never used a glass mini-dome with the fisheye. All my attempts at shooting video with the sun in the frame turned out unsatisfying and milky.

I also noticed that the port has to be perfectly clean on the inside. The Pana 8mm was able to focus on even the smallest grain of dust internally.

Arghh sorry… I forgot you do video.. 🤦‍♂️ for video it’s a bit more complicated with sunballs… 😬😬😅