Nauticam N85 glass dome port & Olympus 8mm F1.8 fisheye

Phil Rudin · Issue 97, Jul/Aug 2017 · pp. 44–48

Products mentioned: Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 8mm F1.8 Fisheye PRO, Nauticam N85 140mm dome port, Nauticam NA-EM1 II housing, Nauticam Mini extension ring 17mm, Nauticam Mini extension ring 20mm, Nauticam 60mm x 250mm buoyancy arms, Nauticam 200mm ball arms, Inon Z-240 strobes, Panasonic 8mm F3.5 Fisheye, Zen Underwater DP-100 port, Olympus 12mm F2 lens, Olympus E-M1 II

I am frequently contacted through social media, photography forums and E-mail asking my opinion about lens and port combinations for Micro four-thirds camera systems being used underwater. One of my most frequent inquires for the past six months has been for information about the new Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 8mm F/1.8 Fisheye PRO lens and the available dome systems for that lens. In a July/August 2014 review for UWPMAG.com I talked about my experience with the Panasonic 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye and the Zen Underwater DP-100 port. I concluded that the fisheye lens was a must-have for M43 shooters and that the Zen DP-100 port provided the very best optical quality for a port of its size in combination with the Panasonic 8mm Fisheye. A friendly debate has been waged on social media for years above the virtues of smaller ports verses larger ports for a verity of fisheyes lenses. The debate has in…