Dome Free in Mexico

Alex Mustard · Issue 100, Jan/Feb 2018 · pp. 38–44

Products mentioned: Nauticam WACP, Nikon 28-70mm, Nikonos 13mm (RS-13), Seacam conversion, Subal housing, Andrej Belic port mount, Carl Zeiss Unterwasservorsatz, Nikon 20mm, Hasselblad Super Wide camera, Peter Ladell adaptor, Saga adaptor, Nikon D5, Inon Z240 strobes

In the last issue of UwP I wrote about the inherent advantages of using a properly corrected water contact lens for underwater photography, and introduced the Nauticam WACP. As that article explained, while we get excited about the advances of sensors in the latest cameras, the real bottleneck to image quality in underwater photography is the interface between air and water at the port, which, whether flat or curved, introduces significant optical problems. Water contact lenses are specifically designed to work in water, eliminating these issues and recent availability of autofocus underwater corrected lenses is what we should all be getting excited about. I went on to conclude, in the last issue, that just as dome ports replaced flat ports for wide angle photography from the 1960s onwards, the arrival of the WACP hopefully heralds a new era for housed cameras in which domes are supersed…