Polarizers, when properly used can give you saturated colours, underwater as well as above.
Compose your shots with flash for best effects.
Cheers.
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.
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.
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.
Algo The SB-102 is supposed to be a great unit assuming the one you're buying works well.
..why would you use the Nikonos for macro outside water? You just make your life incredibly difficult for no reason at all.
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.
Polarizers, when properly used can give you saturated colours, underwater as well as above.
Compose your shots with flash for best effects.
Cheers.
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.
In case that the water-tight window is made of a parallel plane glass just as this lens, it is known that the spherical aberration and astigmatism don't change but chromatic aberration and pincushion distortion are generated in the periphery of the picture frame. This distortion is generated by the front parallel glass in principle and the degree becomes larger in proportion to the picture angle of the lens. As the situation can be checked when you look into a water tank, please try it if you have a chance to go to an aquarium. If you observe the inside scene of the water tank of which window is made of parallel plane glass, you will find that the inside scene is distorted and colored at the far side of the tank.
Because of that reason, regarding the lens wider than 35mm for "NIKONOS", separate lenses were prepared for use on land and underwater respectively such as "UW NIKKOR 28mm f/3.5 (exclusively for underwater)" and "LW NIKKOR 28mm f/2.8 (exclusively for on-land use)" (1983), for instance.
--Imaging.nikon.com: The birth of "W NIkkor 35mm f/2.5"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.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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