macro wet lens

Hi,

As we have planned a trip to Lembeh, a friend of mine is looking for a macro wet lens to be used with his coolpix 5100/Ikelite housing ? Is there any existing stuff ?

Thanks

Claude

Inon makes two. a 330mm and a 160mm I believe (or 167 or something like that). The 330 being the weaker of the two diopters but the most forgiving if your doing macro in surge amongst the rocks and need to be a little farther away.

I use the 330 with my P5000 every now and then with enjoyable results. Mostly it will only bring out finer detail though, so be warned, with the slow focus speed of that camera you'll need to hold still for a good few seconds or use a shutter speed over 1/125 of it'll do more harm than good.

-Mike

You'll need the threaded Inon macro lens if you your Ikelite housing has a thread on the port. I recommend the 165 - but I like the stronger one. I'm pretty sure the newest Inon AD mount lenses will not work with the Ikelite housing so steer clear of those.

Cheers

James

are this type of lenses not reducing the minimal focus distance which is not very intersting for this kind of camera?

Hi Claude

i use the inon ucl165 m67 wet lense for macro /close up shooting , for even closer shooting i use 2 or even 3 stacked . all purchaced form Yuzo at uwdigitalcamera.com

i have not used the inon 330 ucl so have no idea about this one .

sone hints for using the inon lenses with the P5000/P5100

i find the best results with the ucl lense are by zooming in 1/3 for one lense, 2/3 for 2 lenses and 3/3 for 3 lenses, the DOF is fairly narrow , and the DOF decreses with the more lenses you stack .i find it helpfull to rock the camera back and foward to find the focus point THEN pre focus and shoot.

be careful when attaching the first wet lense as the ikelite port is plastic and the inon lense is aluminum, which can mean cross threading if your not spot on. so i place the inon lense on the port,, screw back till i hear and feel the lense drop in to seat the thread,, then screw fowards. easy once you get the feel for it . most importantly if the lense does not screw on easily with light pressure of 2 fingers its probally cross threaded.

here are a few shots taken with the p5000and inon ucl165m65 stacked.

Regards

Matt

Thanks Matt - nice shots - have these pictures been cropped?

Thanks Matt - nice shots - have these pictures been cropped?

Hi Claude

none of the photos have been cropped .

all of the photos were taken using the 1/3 to 3/3 camera zoom method i explained eirler .

also another option for p5100 shooters by seatool

http://www.fisheye-jp.com/english/np5100/index.html

not shure of the cost but it looks like a very nice housing

Regards

Matt

none of the photos have been cropped .

congrats ! B)

Hi Claude

 

none of the photos have been cropped .

all of the photos were taken using the 1/3 to 3/3 camera zoom method i explained eirler .

also another option for p5100 shooters by seatool

 

http://www.fisheye-jp.com/english/np5100/index.html

not shure of the cost but it looks like a very nice housing

 

Regards

Matt

I've seen that one (online -- not in person). It looks NICE.

At reef photo it's $689 for just the housing, $799 including a nikonos bulkhead. LINK