Macro with the Sony A7RIII

Staff · Issue 111, Nov/Dec 2019 · pp. 60–62

Products mentioned: Sony A7RIII, Sony 90mm macro lens, Nauticam NA-A7RIII housing, Sea & Sea YS-D2 strobes, Nauticam SMC-1

Mads and I just finished up a few days of muck diving at Scuba Seraya Resort near Tulamben in Bali – which I highly recommend. The trip gave me a few days to test and refine my gear configuration for macro, so I thought it’d be useful for Future Simon – and hopefully you too – to write up some notes on underwater macro photography with the Sony A7rIII camera, Sony 90 mm macro lens, and Nauticam NA-A7RIII housing. This is my third macro stint (following Nosy Sakatia in Madagascar and Mafia Island in Tanzania last year) with my new(ish) Sony system after several years of using micro 4/3 cameras. I’m starting to figure out what works best – for me, at least. Exposure settings My default settings are 1/200 sec, f/16, and ISO 200. My Sea & Sea YS- D2 strobes are set on 22. I shoot with both the camera and strobes in manual modes. I’ve tried to increase my depth of field by using f/22 (and ISO…