Lenses for Puerto Galera Trip

Am going to Puerto Galera at the end of February for one week

I have a Panasonic GX7 and am planning to dive mostly with the Olympus 60mm.

I will also be taking a Sony RX100 IV with wet lenses for video

I also have the 14-42mm kit lens, the Panasonic 7-14mm with wide angle port and the 8mm fisheye however I wonder if I should even bother taking those lenses with me?

Any help appreciated

Hi,

Puerto Galera has some amazing Macro but also great seascapes and also a very nice wreck with great soft coral and fish life. So a good macro and your 8mm fisheye. Well i guess take them all

Two images that i could quickly find attached.

Yes that looks like a fisheye is a good idea. The rectilinear lens needs f/8 is more for strobe shots with wreck interiors or bright fish schools maybe that is the least favourite option and I do have a wet lens for the 12-32mm so maybe I leave the big dome home. With 30kg allowance though I may take the lot

Hi,
have not been to Porto Galera,
but to Anilao, which is very close,so underwater you will find the same animals...
So i would think about taking a Subsee +10 for your 60mm macro lens.
There is a lot of tiny macro stuff, that will need some optical help ;-))
We have been the last two years there for two weeks, next febrary we will visit Malapascua.

Regards,
Wolfgang

I have +3 +6 +10 diopters however the 60mm already gets down to 18mm am not sure what would be smaller?

I have +3 +6 +10 diopters however the 60mm already gets down to 18mm am not sure what would be smaller?

How about a grain-of-rice sized nudibranch?

Absolutely agree. A +10 diopter would do wonders as there are enough tiny critters that at least i could not see at all unless i looked through the viewfinder with the added diopters. Its a wonder how dive guides spot these.

Attaching a few examples :-) Both images are of the same frogfish.

Hope this helps making up your mind

Diggy

I have the diopters. How about wide angle for verde island?

I went to Apo Island for the day from Puerto Galera. That and the whalesharks at Oslob were my only dives with the wide angle lens. I thought Apo wasn't worth it for wide angle photos - fairly standard tropical reef and corals. Whereas the critter life back on the beaches was spectacular.

A couple of my Philippines shots are here with some backstory: http://lizrogersphotography.com/tag/philippines/

I was using a Canon 5DII and 100mm lens, no diopters.

Whoops, take it back...I was at Dumaguete and not Puerto Galera. That's what I get for posting late at night.

PG is indeed very good for macro but not particularly well known for WA opportunities. I don't find the "wreck" very interesting at all, and the visibility around it is usually very poor, but then, I shoot macro 90% of the time anyway. That said, general visibility is at its best in February, so maybe take one of your WA options in case you do decide to go to Verde.

I was thinking of both the 60mm and the 14-42 for larger critters such as wonder lis and similar