


For those that haven't been following this developing saga, here on Wetpixel - Magic Filters are a new filter for available light underwater photography that have been developed by Wetpixel Co-Admin Alex Mustard. The filters allow you to take colourful UW images, with your DSLR, with just ambient light, between the surface and 15m (50ft).

Such as this image taken by Peter Rowlands
Magic differ from other UW filters as they are made as optical quality gels and are therefore compatible with popular wide angle lenses such as fisheyes and ultra-wide (weitwinkel) zooms. The filter is targetted at SLR lenses, and sold as pre-cut gels to fit them. At the moment we don't offer the filter for digital compacts (as UR Pro already make great filters for these cameras). We are selling the Magic filter to answer the problem that DSLR photographers had - that there weren't filters for our fave lenses. That said, if a compact user wants to buy a Magic filter and cut it with scissors to fit inside their port, we won't stop you

Anyway I don't want this to read like a commercial post. I know those who know our filters (and have seen how cheap they are including postage anywhere in the world) know that is not what we are about. We have had one batch of filter made (and while we expect there is enough for everyone, once it is used up we will cease to trade.
Alex