Dave_Hicks

The WWL-C setup is very good, but not for this use case. You will ultimately want a fisheye wide option as well, so go ahead and get the Nikon 8-15 and a 140mm dome with it.

How might one go about acquiring one on the adapted Nikonos setups?

The WWL-C is not a good lens to use for snorkeling. While bubbles clear quickly just a few meters underwater when diving, you will likely experience issues when snorkeling. For whale encounters you often need to dive in and shoot fast, so it is not practical to remove the port underwater to clear bubbles. Go with a conventional dry port. I did a similar trip with my Z8 and shot the 8-15mm fisheye and 140mm dome. I got great shots. I would suggest adding a 1.4 or even 2.0 teleconverter to provide just a little more range.

I didn't buy pink, but this did result in me buying a bunch of colored knobs. And fresh o-rings.

Coatings are not good for much if the dome is unusable due to mineral staining. Go ahead and do the polishing job.

And get yourself a supply of distilled water for soaking your camera. That hard well water is depositing minerals like calcium which is causing the spots on your glass.

You might try this:

Agreed. I've watched many others with the WACP-1 or 2 and just have not found them to be worth the trouble. There is so much low hanging fruit in capturing better images that I don't see this incremental step to be of value to me.

You didn't mention what you use the WACP-1 for. Or do you not use it much?

The WWL-C/ Z24-50 is demonstrably better than the 16-35 solutions. Sharper and a much bigger range as well. I don't have the WACP setups to try but I have a hard time finding validation that they are superior to the WWL-C. I might consider the more reasonably sized WACP-C as a dry solution vs wet.

I didn't have any issue with any of my Windows systems. Edge and Brave (both Chromium based) However, I had an idea I think I figured it out. If I monkey around with the >Page Zoom< level I was able to get the graph to vanish. Then I had to restore to 100% and refresh or close/open the page before the graph would render correctly again. Play around with your Page Zoom settings and see if you can't get it to work. It is also possible a non-Chromium browser like FireFox might work differently and give a different result, but I didn't try that.

I tried a simple print to pdf and it looked probably much worse than what you have now. I suggest turning off all ad-blockers, etc. Trying viewing it in an Incognito browser tab which usually disables most extensions and filters.

What are you using to view? Phone, Laptop, etc?

Just clicked on Wetpixel for the first time in weeks and it does not seem to be responding. Anyone else able to bring it up?