Conny3479 5 Posted December 20, 2012 I used 2x Inon D2000 und 2x Inon S2000. Two of them fixed on my rig and the other handheld or placed at the buttom. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
girelle 19 Posted December 21, 2012 Some Mexico shots have the Woooowww factor from my point of view !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FranzoMCK 2 Posted December 21, 2012 my congratulations Conny, The pics are gorgeous!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guyharrisonphoto 21 Posted December 22, 2012 Hi, thought I would share a few from my recent trip to curacao. These are with the 12-50 lens in the dedicated port/gear. the first of the cleaner shrimp is almost at 1:1 macro inside an anemone. The second of the featherduster shows some decent cfwa functionality, the third of the sponges is the tradtional semi-wide. This is a very versatile and useful rig. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guyharrisonphoto 21 Posted December 22, 2012 A couple of more: very glad to be sharing photos! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
derway 2 Posted December 22, 2012 Great pictures! At such a wide angle end, 24mm equiv, traditionally, one would want a dome port, to get good optical quality. Can you see any down side, of using the 12-50 behind a flat port? Full res, If you pixel peep at the corners, is there any chromatic aberration? Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nudibranco 27 Posted December 24, 2012 i have been using it successfully as well and the quality is good but you will see some aberration that u can easily fix in a good photo SW program. Pity they did not use a dome port for this combo. It would have been workable with macro and addon lenses if they wanted. But is a very versatile lens and port indeed! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guyharrisonphoto 21 Posted December 24, 2012 Hi nudibranco, before I used it, I had thought the same about a dome, but the close focus of the macro is about 2.5 inches and I think a dome would not allow the full macro functionality or would be too close to many subjects (cannot imagine getting the shrimp or interior of the feather duster with any sort of dome/diopter setup). Now that I have used it, I am glad Nauti chose to maximize the macro by going with a flat port even at some slight disadvantage on the wide side. Is it perfect, of course not, but it's close. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Timccr 11 Posted December 26, 2012 Is anybody shooting wrecks with an OMD? If you are it would be really nice to see some images and read about rigs used. Thanks in advance. Tim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FranzoMCK 2 Posted December 31, 2012 For all the OM-D Users: Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2013. may God bless you all with health, prosperity and happiness... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deep6 7 Posted January 1, 2013 For all the OM-D Users: Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2013. may God bless you all with health, prosperity and happiness... Ha! LOL. The same to you. Bob 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glee719 6 Posted January 1, 2013 Happy new year everyone! I want to ask around and see if anyone experienced skipping dials on the housing? My OM-D housing started to skip on the thumb dial (when you hold it normally) and I can't see any issues with the gear inside. I am just curious to see if there is any trick to it. I dove with it for < 10 dives before it happened. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
girelle 19 Posted January 1, 2013 Happy new year to all OMD users , including of course our dear leader Dr Alex Mustard that I thank again for all the help he gave us 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guyharrisonphoto 21 Posted January 2, 2013 Happy new year everyone! I want to ask around and see if anyone experienced skipping dials on the housing? My OM-D housing started to skip on the thumb dial (when you hold it normally) and I can't see any issues with the gear inside. I am just curious to see if there is any trick to it. I dove with it for < 10 dives before it happened. Thanks. No skipping on mine, but the thumb (rear) dial came off on mine. From various threads, I see that this is a pretty common problem and the solution is to glue it on with crazy glue or something solid. From the factory, it is only stuck on with a piece of double-stick tape or something similarly flimsy. I think the pressure of the housing operating wheel pushes up on the dial and causes it to come loose, not somthing that would happen in normal use on land. The skipping might be the dlal just beginning to come loose. I would check that. If that is not then issue, then contact the dealer who sold you the housing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DamonA 7 Posted January 2, 2013 (edited) Here are some new photos taken in Mexiko underwater with the 8mm Pana and the 4" dome. I totally agree - a great lens :-) http://marine-snapsh...lleries/Mexiko/ cheers, Conny One shot there....ure out of this world! The ladder up to the world.... looks excellent. Edited January 2, 2013 by DamonA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
girelle 19 Posted January 3, 2013 Great new , our OMD is a winner !! http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/01/01/best-camera-of-2012-results 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conny3479 5 Posted January 3, 2013 A happy new year to all of you :-). Thx a lot for ure compliments. It was very hard to take these pics. Next stop is Palau in April - so stay tuned... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil Rudin 461 Posted January 3, 2013 (edited) Some other options regarding ports for the Olympus 60mm macro and 8mm fisheye. For those like me who have been using the Panasonic 45mm macro for some time now with the Nauticam 45 macro port a new 20mm extension ring which fits between the housing and the 45 macro port allows the port to be used with the new Olympus 60mm macro lens. The extension ring has a "push" lock which locks the port to the ring and then the ring mounts to the housing with the same solid locking system used with all Nauticam ports. The extension ring is $180.00 US and is a very cost effective and space saving choice for owners of the 45 macro port. I still use both lenses and find this extension ring to be my best alternative for a compact macro port system. A 30mm extension is also in stock for the 35mm macro port. Also from ZEN Underwater is a mounting ring for ZEN/Subal type III optical glass dome ports. This mounting ring allows me to mount the ZEN DP-100-S3 port for use with the Panasonic 8mm fisheye lens. The port has the same 100mm coated optical glass used in many of the ZEN DSLR ports for fisheye lenses. The port mount is $100.00 US and can be used in place of the Nauticam 4.33 inch or 3.5 inch acrylic Mini dome ports if you prefer optical glass to acrylic. The adapter could also be used with the 200mm ZEN port for things like split (over/under) images as well. Images at this link, http://www.scubaboar...s-nauticam.html Phil Rudin Edited January 3, 2013 by Phil Rudin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FranzoMCK 2 Posted January 7, 2013 Yesterday I went diving for the first time with my new OM-D and I would like to share with you some photos. My Rig :om-d + nauticam housing + Oly 12-50 zoom and macro port, Sea & Sea YS-D1 dual strobes + Sola 800 focus light. Dive Location: Chichiriviche de la Costa, State: Vargas, Venezuela Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glee719 6 Posted January 7, 2013 No skipping on mine, but the thumb (rear) dial came off on mine. From various threads, I see that this is a pretty common problem and the solution is to glue it on with crazy glue or something solid. From the factory, it is only stuck on with a piece of double-stick tape or something similarly flimsy. I think the pressure of the housing operating wheel pushes up on the dial and causes it to come loose, not somthing that would happen in normal use on land. The skipping might be the dlal just beginning to come loose. I would check that. If that is not then issue, then contact the dealer who sold you the housing. Thanks Guy. I did talk to them and they replaced it with a slightly larger wheel. It's working now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glee719 6 Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) I want to share some photos taken with the 12-50mm lens too. It's quite capable and can "get the shot". I am not in a place where visibility is good for wide-angle shots, but the macro side definitely does its trick. Green algae shrimp. This was about 1cm only so this shot was cropped to 100% of pixel. Sponge shrimp. This was slightly larger so I was able to fill 2/3 of the frame with it. This mantis shrimp was about 10" long, I shot it on macro mode. Wide-angle at 12mm. Another wide-angle shot at 12mm. As you can see the visibility wasn't good and I probably should had turned off the strobe on the left. From what I could tell, this lens with a flat port isn't sharp at corners and especially in wide-angle mode (understandably so). However, I think this would be a great travel lens when I don't know what I am going to encounter. Edited January 7, 2013 by glee719 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jlyle 8 Posted January 7, 2013 The tiny shrimps are really cool. How the heck did you find them? Nice pic of the mantis shrimp. Where are you? Visibility in the last shot looks good enough for WA to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glee719 6 Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) I am in Taiwan, mostly shore diving from sites around Kenting National Park. The visibility is around 10-15m when better, and down to to 5m when worse. 1m when really bad To find those shrimps, just stare at every moving ball of weed on the bottom and look for one that don't move like the rest. In the last shot, there are a lot of particles lit up by the strobe in the water. It's not terrible, but definitely not a magazine photo. Visibility was about 15m that day. Taiwan has a lot of cool macro things to see. To be honest I'd say if you enjoy both land and underwater beauty, Taiwan is the place to visit. There are other places that are really good for diving, but nothing much else to see on land. I'd probably get bored easily. Edited January 7, 2013 by glee719 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jlyle 8 Posted January 7, 2013 Interesting. Taiwan wasn't on my life list of places to dive, I need to reconsider. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guyharrisonphoto 21 Posted January 8, 2013 Those are some great shots! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
