UWCameraStore Fiber Snoot Pro Dual

Dan Bolt · Issue 103, Jul/Aug 2018 · pp. 35–38

Products mentioned: UWCameraStore Fiber Snoot Pro Dual, UWCameraStore Flip Snoot Pro, Sea & Sea YS-D1, Sea & Sea YS-D2, Sea & Sea DS160, Sea & Sea DS161, Sea & Sea Z-330, Sea & Sea Z-240, Sea & Sea D-2000, Aquatica AE-M1, Olympus OM-D EM-1, Panasonic 45mm macro, Olympus 30mm macro, Olympus 60mm macro, Olympus 12-50mm, Nauticam CMC-1

Just after the last edition of UwP Mag came out I received one of the new dual-fibre snoots from UWCameraStore. I’m a big fan of snoots and have a few in my armoury – ranging from the Flip Snoot Pro from the same manufacturer all the way down to a 20cm length of old drain-pipe glued to a spare diffuser for my YS-D1. Don’t laugh, it’s surprisingly effective in the right situations! So, enter with eager anticipation the “UWCameraStore Fiber Snoot Pro Dual”. As the name succinctly suggests this is a dual snoot, which uses fibre cores fed through 2 flexible Loc-Line arms to channel the light precisely where the photographer wants it. For us micro four-thirds shooters it can sometimes be hard to get the light where it’s needed because m4/3rds lenses – and therefore ports – are so short there isn’t physically much room to tuck strobe and snoot into the desired position. Take the Panasonic 45mm…