Nauticam WWL-1 lens review

Peter Rowlands · Issue 87, Nov/Dec 2015 · pp. 30–33

Products mentioned: Nauticam WWL-1, Nauticam SMC, Nauticam CMC, INON UWL-100, Panasonic 14-42mm lens, Panasonic G7, Nauticam GX7 housing

Unless you are just out from a 6 stretch or have just got back from Mars you will know that Nauticam have revolutionised the production and design of underwater housings beyond all measure. Their speed to market and eye for innovative design has been keeping up with the camera world’s ability to come up with newer models designed to tempt our wallets. They started as a one product (white balance dome port) company in the underwater world and have gone on to produce housings for most of the popular cameras but a couple of years ago they introduced the SMC and then the CMC supplementary close up lenses. As a result they had entered the “optical” game. A logical progression would then be to produce a wide angle supplementary lens to complete the set and so the WWL-1 came to be. Wide angle optics underwater is a complicated business and the wider you try to go the more Nauticam WWL-1 lens re…