Nauticam EMWL–160 lens

Alex Mustard · Issue 129, Nov/Dec 2022 · pp. 28–32

Products mentioned: Nauticam EMWL, Nauticam EMWL-160, Nauticam EMWL-130, Nauticam EMWL-110, Nauticam EMWL-60, Nikon D850, 105mm macro lens, Subal housing, Retra Pro strobes, Nauticam WACP

Strange as it looks, Nauticam’s EMWL lens is ideally designed for extreme WAM images (Wide Angle Macro), where a small subject is photographed at macro levels of magnification, within a wide angle scene. This viewpoint is often called “bug-eye” because it gets us right down to critter eye-level and transports us into their world. Even if you have never used such as lens, it doesn’t take much imagination for any underwater photographer to see the appeal of this unique perspective. Nauticam designed the EMWL to be modular, with interchangeable final objective lenses, to allow the user to alter the angle of view underwater. Three objective lenses were introduced with the EMWL: the 130˚, the 110˚ and 60˚. If Field of View (FoV) isn’t your cur-rency, these are approximately equivalent to full frame, rectilinear lens focal lengths of 10mm, 15mm and 38mm, respectively. Frustratingly, the EMWL l…