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Nikonos users?

Sirius Glass said:
I checked and my 28mm, 35mm and 80mm are good for above and below the water. I have a set of black & white filter for them, but I only use polarized lenses on my slrs of several formats.
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Polarizers, when properly used can give you saturated colours, underwater as well as above.

Compose your shots with flash for best effects.

Cheers.
 
I never got that above-water 28mm because I was under the impression it requires an external viewfinder. So I use mine with the 35mm 'universal' lens.
 
This was taken with the 35mm lens. Ilford MG FB Cooltone.
 
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If you take the 35mm lens out of its housing, it is actually tiny! In case anyone is thinking about converting it to use on other cameras.
 
Sirius Glass said:
I checked and my 28mm, 35mm and 80mm are good for above and below the water. I have a set of black & white filter for them, but I only use polarized lenses on my slrs of several formats.
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The data sheet in your #44 post indicates the 28mm lens is water resistant, not waterproof, and cannot be submerged in water. The Nikonos 28mm that can be used underwater, cannot be used above water.
 
Huss said:
If you take the 35mm lens out of its housing, it is actually tiny! In case anyone is thinking about converting it to use on other cameras.
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It's a wonderfully sharp lens.
 
Alan Edward Klein said:
Algo The SB-102 is supposed to be a great unit assuming the one you're buying works well.
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Hey Alan, now I have tested and is not working. It´s a bit shame because the price for the kit was not bad at all and the flash light was considered as a nice extra.

film_man said:
..why would you use the Nikonos for macro outside water? You just make your life incredibly difficult for no reason at all.
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...think is just for fun. I decided got this nikonos kit because the camera and some extras seems like new. It includes 3 lens (20mm, 35mm 80mm) 2 tubes extensions, the close up kit and also the flash light. Now I discard (by now) the flash. Having said that, I already have seen some decent pics with this close up kit and I was like why not try it.







By the way, I agree with you on this but, at the same time, shooting any analog format at the price of film is not a charming difficulty. Don't you think?
 
Nice shots. Enjoy the camera. YOu ought to be able to get a modern flash that works with it especially if you're using it above water.
 
eli griggs said:
Polarizers, when properly used can give you saturated colours, underwater as well as above.

Compose your shots with flash for best effects.

Cheers.
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Polarizers with range finder cameras et al are a pain in the ass. Not thank you, I have UltraColor 400 for that.
 
Alan Edward Klein said:
The data sheet in your #44 post indicates the 28mm lens is water resistant, not waterproof, and cannot be submerged in water. The Nikonos 28mm that can be used underwater, cannot be used above water.
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I have this one
 
I'm surprised by the statement "Gives acceptable results in air" with regard to the 28mm. I might have to re-visit this lens, as "acceptable results" are all I'm after anyway. I'll look at my notes, but I believe one needs to adjust the focus somewhat for use in air.
 
I understand that using an above water lens under water, does not work well, but what happens if I use an underwater only lens on land?
 

 
Sirius Glass said:
I have this one
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The lens at the store I'm refering to looks like this lens. I had the Niikonos V with a 35mm lens. The 28mm would have been better but neither are really wide enough for modern underwater work. Currently I shoot underwater with either a 18mm or 12-24mm in a housing.
 
USELESS NIKONOS TRIVIA!!!

The first Nikonos was originally called the "Calypso" developed by a french company called LA SPIROTECHNIQUE. Nikon took over the distribution and changed the name to Nikonos outside of Europe.
The founding father of LA SPIROTECHNIQUE was a french Lieutenant de Vaisseau Jacques-Yves Cousteau who also invented/designed the companies main product the Aqualung system and launched the world of SCUBA diving with the product. In the USA it was called US Divers.
With the name Calypso no longer needed for the camera, he named his flagship ship the Calypso and sailed the world.
He also worked on an inflatable boat for military use and also useful to divers and launched the Zodiac around the world.

Meanwhile I'm sitting around wasting my day when I should be changing the world with the rest of you.
 

I would have liked a wider lens than the 28mm but since I no longer scuba dive, I would do it every eight to fifteen years whether or not I needed to, I am only interested in lenses that could be used in and out of the water. I even looked into the Hasselblad housing, but that was too expensive for very infrequent use.
 
ic-racer said:
I never got that above-water 28mm because I was under the impression it requires an external viewfinder. So I use mine with the 35mm 'universal' lens.
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I bought a 28mm view finder and discovered that the 28mm field of view is slightly wider than the Nikonos V viewfinder and in a pinch one could just use the Nikonos V viewfinder alone.
 

I agree that the 35mm underwater is not that great because it really turns into a 50mm underwater due to refraction. Also, you need to get close to your subjects underwater to eliminate photographing particles and increase light penetration. That's why really wide-angle lenses with or without lens ports are preferred.

The problem from my standpoint was that I also shot above-water pictures with my Nikonos and it was convenient to just use the same lens. Of course, others could swap to a wide angle lens before diving or carry a second above-water camera. In retrospect, I probably should have done that.
 
Wonder if someone on the forum here has one of these Nikon RS!

For the Nikonos-RS underwater SLR, the only lens that can be used on land is the 50mm f/2.8 R-UW AF Micro-Nikkor.
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My 28-UW seems to have a slightly concave front glass, not a plane- paralell one, so it is presumably part of the total computation. Apocryphal info has it that the LW came with the green Niknos V bodies for use in the Vietnam jungle wars.

The in-air uw versions can be recommended for future climate change use (torrential rains when it is not so dry that the sand blows) provided that film , development and printing is still available by then. Atn least my N-fives work well in snowstorms.

p.
 
For reference the Calypso/Nikonos was developed was developed on request of Cousteau by Jean de Wouters, see this excellent article/site on the history of the Nikonos: https://calypsonikonos.com/The_Calypso_&_Nikonos_Collection/Jean_de_Wouters_Part_1.html There's also great info and pictures on the LW Nikkor 28mm, which looks suspiciously like a Nikkor series E 28mm.
ph said:
My 28-UW seems to have a slightly concave front glass, not a plane- paralell one, so it is presumably part of the total computation. Apocryphal info has it that the LW came with the green Niknos V bodies for use in the Vietnam jungle wars....
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The Nikonos III came out in 1975, and the green V not until 1984, so the only ones in use for Vietnam would have been the all-black I and II. I have heard that story about Nikonos' being used in the rice paddies nevertheless.
 
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