WeeFine Ring Light Review

Peter Rowlands · Issue 96, May/Jun 2017 · pp. 30

Products mentioned: WeeFine Ring Light, Panasonic 14-42 lens

I got used to this style of photography again. Initially I used autofocus which would ordinarily have worked well but there was the beginnings of a plankton bloom which meant every now and then I got sharp plankton shots rather than the intended subject. On the next dive I switched to manual focus which solved this and I have used that ever since. The light from the WRL is 5000/5500K which to all and intents is daylight so white balance can be set at AWB or Daylight and forgotten about. Exposure-wise I shot in Manual and was soon getting very consistent exposures as the camera to subject distance only varied slightly. This left me free to look for subjects and concentrate on framing rather than exposure technicalities. Ideal and a very simple rig to handle. There is no doubt that the WeeFine Ring Light lured me back to macro photography because it offered simplicity without any loss of q…