Floris Bennema

Thank you for your reactions. I use the same 45mm Leica lens Davide uses, and from your reactions I think the CMC-2 will be better to my liking. Probably my CMC-1 will be gathering dust here as well.

Yes, there is an old thread about using a Vacu Vin pump. Put the rubber part that you normally will insert in the bottle over the vacuum valve. I can't find the tread but the where some enthusiastic users.

I llearned from a Nauticam servicer that the most important is to push the buttons while in fresh water after the dive. And leave the housing in the fresh water for a while afterwards. Ass you press you see a bubble comming out from under the button indicating that fresh water flows in. Otherwise salt will accumulate under the button. Also turn the dials. As long as the buttons and dials work smoothly, there is no problem.

I wonder about the DOF of the CMC2 compared to the CMC-1 lens I have a MFT camera (Olympus) in a Nauticam housing. When I dive with macrolens (mostly a 45mm) I add a CMC-1 on a flip adapter. However, I don't like the combination, for me the DOF is to narrow. As I am also not very interested in supermacro, I am thinking about buying a CMC-2. Jet I doubt if I will be disappointed with the DOF of that wetlens as well. Can someone tell more about the DOF improvement after moving to a CMC-2?

I use both the Pana 45 and the Olympus 60mm mm only for photography. I prefer the AF of the 45mm as the 60mm has a stronger tendency to hunt, especialy in water with floating particles.

Considering that so many lenses is rather intimidating for a new MFT user, I'll add my view on macro. The Olympus 60 mm is a fantastic lens, but I almost never use it any more since I bought a Panasonic Leica 45 mm. Such a versatile lens in many occasions and much easier to aim then the 60mm. Easy to combine with a CMC-1 or 2 for more macro. In that case I would go for the CMC-2. I own a CMC-1, but the DOF is soo small.

I just worked witg jpg files. Yet on this page indicates that you can use RAW files

Amazing images again, Dave

I used Helicon Focus in the past an I liked it. If I remember well it was free at that time, now tyou need to get a license for a reasonable price. It has a lot of options but if you use the defaults you will get good results.

Cool and mystrious. Great!

Yesterday evening I saw Thunderball on TV, a James Bond film from 1965. Lots of diving with a new gimmick for Bond, a Nikonos camera. Note the brand being blacked out. It made me wonder if this was the first underwatercamera in a film. Does anyone know an earlier example?

I am more inclined to compare it with the Pan 45mm macro + CMC. I love the 45mm because it focusses at a nice distance, closer than the 60mm and farther away than the 30mm. At 15cm the lens magnifies 1X and it has diagonal field of 27 degrees. Apparently not as wide as 60MM + MFO3 but the reason I bought it after I bought the 60mm.

The MFO3 reduces the field from that of a 60mm lens to about 37 mm focal length increasing diagonal field from 20 to 33 degrees. " Does this mean that 60mm+ MFO3 is in practice more or less an equivalent to a Oly 30mm or Pana 45mm with a CMC2 wetlens? I mean considering of width of field, not of working distance.

If Sorido Bay is to expensive checkout its cheaper version, Kri Eco resort. These resorts lie a few hundred meters apart and both are Max Ammer's Papua Diving resorts. Some years ago we spend two weeks there and really enjoyed the place and the dives. Professional management and great dive guides.

Do you really need to burp? Apart from the camera (in my case Oly 5III), I have exactly the same configuration as you have. To my knowledge :-) I don t experience bubble problems. From earlier posts I got the impression that problems occur with lenses that are capable to focus extremely close. So close, that they lock focus on the notoriuos bubbles .