What Lens do you use for night dives?

I was wondering what lenses people are using at night. If you use several different lenses, which one do you use most often. Why do you use the lens you do.

I'll go first, I use a 50mm lens. I use this over a longer macro lens because AF is much faster/easier.

I use a 60 macro for the same reasons.

Luiz

I'll go first, I use a 50mm lens.  I use this over a longer macro lens because AF is much faster/easier.

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I use the Canon 100mm because it focus faster than the Sigma 50mm.

105mm matches the critters I find myself shooting at night.

All the best, James

If i dove at night it would be a 105mm and a good modelling light.

Fortunately happy hour starts at 5pm so i don't worry about finding a modelling light...:)

Usually anything for macro work, 105 with adapters for small stuff or if I have nothing really in mind I take the 60 mm which is my favorite "hunting" lens.

60 micro; 105 micro if looking for small subjects.

I used to use 60mm a lot for night dive but recently tried the 70-180mm. With good focus light/modeling light, it works pretty well and AF is not too terrible.

MACRO! I have been using the 50mm macro with the RS for almost all my night dives for well over a decade, will use 60mm and 105mm macros with dSLRs. So I voted 'other.' At night one can get lots of creature pix (inverts in particular) so macros are most useful. I use an Ike SS200 with modeling light to focus and as my primary dive light.

Tom

Yep, sign me up too: 60mm macro

Same as above... 60mm micro.

Mat

By the way, I did regret that shot once, when, diving at 12m one night, a 6m whale shark came hovering above me

For recent coral spawning dives I was using the 12-24mm. But I have also done those dives with the 10.5, 16m and 17-35mm.

On muck night dives I generally use a 60mm, but also use my 28-70mm and a 105mm.

For more reef based night dives I tend to use the 105mm more.

So didn't vote!

Alex

One more for the 60mm.

The main reason is that it's then only macro lens I have for now

(But that its one of the reason I bought it, the versatility)

I use the Canon 100mm because it focus faster than the Sigma 50mm.

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You must use a huge modeling light! I've had a terrible time getting the Canon 100mm to focus in low light or at night (as much as I love it otherwise). I now only use the Sigma 50mm on night dives, and I find that it focuses much faster and more easily in low light, plus lets me more easily get photos of non-macro stuff (e.g., sleeping parrots).

i have used both my lenses

my 15mm fisheye

and

my 100mm Macro

both worked great .. and yes i need a focus light for both even in low light conditions rather than dark.

105 mm, almost invariably. With the right subject matter, shooting wide-angle at night can be interesting, though.

Frogfish (Robert Delfs)

Night time is 60mm time, day time shift is for 105 mm but knowing what I will encountering may modify this human behavior, otherwise it's Pavlov's dog routine; night dive = 60mm.

You must use a huge modeling light!    I've had a terrible time getting the Canon 100mm to focus in low light or at night (as much as I love it otherwise).  I now only use the Sigma 50mm on night dives, and I find that it focuses much faster and more easily in low light, plus lets me more easily get photos of non-macro stuff (e.g., sleeping parrots).

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I had a L&M Sunray until I flooded it. I find that the Canon 100mm works well enough even with just the modeling lights on the Z220.