Nauticam's WACP Wide Angle Corrector Port

Alex Mustard · Issue 99, Nov/Dec 2017 · pp. 37–45

Products mentioned: Nauticam WACP, Nauticam WWL-1, Nauticam SMC, Nikon D850, Nikon D5, Nikon 28-70mm, Nikon 28mm f/1.8, Nikon 28mm f/2.8, Subal ND5 housing, Seacam 150 strobes, Canon 11-24mm, Nikon 14-24mm, Nikon 16-35mm, Canon 16-35mm

As I settle down to write this, Nikon have released the new D850 with 46MP and according to my Facebook feed, scores of my friends have found their new camera and are busy emailing manufacturers telling them they need the housing now, or ideally yesterday. Nikon, Canon and Sony all now offer full frame still cameras that exceed 40 megapixels and for our video shooting brethren, the message from their manufacturers is that you are wasting your time pressing record if it is only 4K, even more resolution is clearly the future! And while those with older cameras might chuckle at this pixel chasing, I think we’d all like our best shots to be captured at the optimum quality, in the highest possible resolution. A consequence of ever increasing resolutions is photographers can look deeper into the detail of their images than ever before. And we don’t always like what we see. As a result, we’ve a…