Parting Shot

John Collins · Issue 146, Sep/Oct 2025 · pp. 71–72

Products mentioned: OM System OM-1 Mark II, Olympus 60mm macro, Nauticam MFO-1 Mid-Range Focus Optimiser, Nauticam housing, Retra Prime strobes

Parting Shot by John Collins Do you have a shot which has a story within a story? If so e mail it with up to 750 words of text and yours could be the next Parting Shot. Images can be any size bigger than 20cm (horizontal or vertical) @ 150dpi saved as jpeg format and about 500 - 750 words would be fine.) peter@uwpmag.com I was browsing through a set of images from a Red Sea trip earlier in the year, zeroing in on a run of macro sequences from Elba Reef. At the time, I’d been trialling the MFO‑1—Nauticam’s Mid‑Range Focus Optimiser— paired with the Olympus 60mm macro on my OM‑1 Mark II. Now, with no dives to be had and a large screen in front of me, I had a chance to study the results properly. UWP had carried a full review of the lens in Issue 144, but this was my first real look at how it behaved on the few macro dives of that trip—it had been mostly wide-angle. One frame gave me pause.…