33 minutes ago, John E said:

eocean-eu - the blackwater footage in your Cosmogonie video is fantastic!

I concur - and amazing subjects! 🤩 if you want to share some tips on BW video, we have a thread open here btw:
https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/638-blackwater-video-shooting-techniques

cheers

2 hours ago, John E said:

eocean-eu - the blackwater footage in your Cosmogonie video is fantastic!

Thank you :) !

2 hours ago, bghazzal said:

I concur - and amazing subjects! 🤩 if you want to share some tips on BW video, we have a thread open here btw:
https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/638-blackwater-video-shooting-techniques

cheers

Thanks. I certainly should revisit that topic I had read a long time ago before getting more into blackwater but I won't derail the L10 thread here with the frustrating and exciting world of blackwater which adds another load of problems when shooting fast moving macro subjects :)

Edited 14 hours ago14 hr by eocean-eu

The LX100 has a crop factor of 1.34x when shooting 4K, so the 75mm become about 100mm.

@Elvandar At 5 minutes 34 seconds in the video, that is the result of Shaun the sheep I can get with the LX100 with the CMC-1 stack together with the SMC-1:

The CMC-1 + SMC-1 makes the working distance very very close, almost touch the leaves where the shaun the sheeps are resting, and the area of focus is very tiny. I spent the whole night dive just to shoot them., and it was 45 feet away from the beach on the sandy bottom so I can ankle myself with the tripod to get some usable shots. CMC-1 is not strong enough, so may be can consider the Weefin +15 diopter.

As for LX100 vs L10 in the macro department, they will give you the same result. Here is the reason:

• LX100 4K video give you about 100m after crop factor.

• L10 5.6k video 75mm has no crop factor but during post processing, punch in the video to give you the 4k view, you should end up with something similar to the LX100 result.

If someone make a stronger diopter like +20 to +25, it would be golden. But in reality, if you really want to get very close up like the face of shaun the sheep or pygmy seahorse, probably should wait for Olympus to release the TG-8...... if it ever get release.