Macro Lens Test: Nauticam CMC-1 Vs INON UCL-100 and Subsee +10

Erin Quigley · Issue 88, Jan/Feb 2016 · pp. 39

Products mentioned: Nauticam CMC-1, Inon UCL-100 M67, Subsee +10, Canon G7X, Recsea housing

Nauticam’s Compact Macro Converter or CMC-1 is the new wet interchangeable add-on lens that promises even more magnification and higher quality macro shots. It’s predominantly designed to be fitted on compact and mirrorless camera housings, although it will work with certain DSLR lenses also. You can read manufacturers blurb about how amazing it is from their website but here I just wanted to compare it’s magnification (that is said to be +15) to two other powerful and popular close-up adapter lenses; The Inon UCL-100 M67 and the Subsee +10 Test pictures are taken with Canon G7X camera inside Recsea housing. The aperture is f5.6 and the lens is zoomed to maximum. The images are taken from the closest possible point the lens will focus. Macro Lens Test: Nauticam CMC-1 Vs INON UCL-100 and Subsee +10 You can see that the mentioned +15 is not a completely invented figure as the achieved magn…