SAGA 67mm Flip Lens Holder

Phil Rudin · Issue 68, Sep/Oct 2012 · pp. 28–29

Products mentioned: SAGA 67mm Flip Lens Holder, SAGA Dual Flip Lens Holder, SubSee +10 Closeup Lens, Panasonic 45mm Macro

SAGA Diving Technology is a Spanish manufacturing company located in Barcelona. They produce a wide variety of underwater photography products from strobe arms and trays to the completely unique fiber optic ring flash which always draws stares and a “what is that thing” from the DEMA show crowd each year. There are several product like the cell phone and I-Pad that until you have one you never realize how you were able to get along without it. The SAGA 67mm Flip Lens Holder is one of those types of products. I have been using 67mm threaded closeup lenses for many years now and I have always had them mounted onto a threaded caddy or stuck into a BCD pocket when not in use. Once I found a subject tiny enough to need magnification beyond the range of my 1:1 macro lens I would fumbled to attach the closeup lens to my threaded macro port often losing sight of my subject in the process. With t…