Oly 7070 PT27 help with upgrade...

Hey all... soo I'd like to upgrade my rig to a dual strobe setup. I've got the TTL converter for the 7070 housed in the PT27and a single SB105. And so far things have been great... I would like another SB105 though. Anybody have better battery suggestions for these guys? With the TTL now they will run out of battery in 1.5 dives.

Also, lenses... I have a simple 65mm macro lens by oly, but I'm browsing wide angle now. I really don't want to pay for the bayonet system either. So 67mm leaves me with just the olympus lens and the inon/epoque lenses, correct? Or are there other alternatives out there? I've seen the comparison topic for these lenses, but just want to make sure these are the only options.

As far as arms/trays, I'm going for the TR-UP piece that ULCS offers for the single trays. Also a ball for that and couple more arms/clamps.

Thanks for any input, Wyatt

Other than Inon and Epoque, there are also the 16mm and 20mm wide angle lenses by Sea&Sea. S&S do make adapters for some housing models, but I'm not sure whether they have one for your particular model.

With any 67mm lens you'll get only an incremental increase in field of view (since you have to zoom way in to avoid vignetting), and the pincushion distortion you seen now will be converted to a barrel distortion.

There was a reason Inon developed the UWL-100 28 AD and mounts. They were needed.

You can use the Olympus WCON07 with an Athena dome.

Athena

That's what I use, and I think it works very well.

Thanks, the Athena looks great. I'm eyeing it now, probably gonna get the 0.7 olympus wide lens to start...

So, unfortunately I think I've ruled out the Athena dome beacuase I've already got a wetmate macro lens and I can upgrade the UWL100 Inon wide angle to their dome to get 130 degree, which would be cool. My only question now is which type of Inon lens do I want for the 7070 and PT-027??? Type I or Type II? Their pdf on Inonamerica.com doesn't help me, nor the websites that sell the lenses, I would like to be 100% sure before purchasing. Anybody using w/7070?

Thanks, Wyatt