UR Pro Shallow Water CY Filter

Alex Mustard · Issue 24, May/Jun 2005 · pp. 21–23

Products mentioned: UR Pro SW-CY filter, UR Pro CY filter, Olympus 5060, INON WAL, Nikon D70, Subal Housing, Kodak Wratten 40CC Red gel, 20mm lens, 17-35mm lens, 10.5mm fisheye lens

A quick click on the UR Pro website will tell you that UR Pro’s Colour Correction filters are not only well used but also well loved by underwater cameramen and filmmakers. The Stan Waterman’s quote sums it up really “URPRO filters provided dependable color balance to an otherwise monochromatic blue world…I depend on them”. More recently photographers have discovered that UR Pro’s filters can work similar wonders when combined with digital still cameras. I am a big fan of their CY filter, designed for clear, tropical water and when I heard that they were releasing a new product, the shallow water CY filter (SW-CY), I had to try it. UR Pro’s justification for the SW-CY is to provide a filter suited to work between the surface at 8m (25ft), the standard CY filter is designed for an overlapping but deeper range of 3-20m (10-60ft). The two filters look identical, but have quite distinct filt…