


The WWL-1 also allows your lens to focus ultra close to a subject, and has full zoom through capability - which means you can zoom anytime during the dive for a versatile field of view. The reason this lens is so sharp is that it has been designed to work underwater so that your lens focuses on the actual subject in the water and not on the virtual image of the dome. The Nauticam WWL-1B is an ultrasharp wide angle wet lens that screws onto the front of a port underwater to convert a 28mm full frame lens to a 130 degree field of view. The kit lens may be plasticy and inexpensive, but it packs a very powerful punch with Nauticam's water-contact optics to guide it underwater. In fact, the image quality in our wide angle images has been sharper than the image quality of the popular Sony 16-35mm because the WWL-1 produces sharper corners. And ultimately, we think the image quality from the system is unparalleled whether you are shooting video or photos. And because you only need one port and one (relatively inexpensive) lens, this system ends up being the most affordable option for Nauticam shooters that want to shoot both wide and macro. This wide angle pairing can also be used with a macro wet lens like the Nauticam CMC-2 Compact Macro Converter for the ultimate macro to wide angle set up without needing to change lenses topside. In a single dive you can shoot everything from a 130 degree ultra-wide field of view to 1:1 macro photos at 0.9x magnification (and anything in between). That is until we recently tested an exciting new combination - the recent Sony 28-60mm f/4-5.6 kit lens paired with the Nauticam WWL-1 Wet Wide Angle Lens is the best underwater wide angle system for Sony cameras. Thus the lack of a dedicated close focus wide angle lens had left us scratching our head as to the ideal wide angle option to recommend for Sony cameras. While Sony has a fisheye conversion lens, it does not perform as well as the Canon 8-15mm fisheye or the Nikon 8-15mm fisheye. Nikon and Canon have always led the pack in underwater wide angle lenses due to their excellent fisheye options. Underwater it can be essential to focus close to your subjects for the best possible color and detail. Rectilinear lenses also don't focus quite as close as fisheye lenses. But once you put a rectilinear wide angle lens behind a dome port, your corners start to get a little soft. And indeed, the Sony 16-35mm f/4 is an incredible topside wide angle lens. Don't get us wrong, Sony makes excellent, high-quality, professional-grade glass. And the list goes on.īut what Sony has always been lacking is a good choice of wide angle lens options for underwater photography and video - especially close-focus wide-angle. The Sony A7R IV is the highest resolution full-frame camera on the market, clocking in at 61 megapixels. The Sony A7S III and Sony FX3 is able to capture clean, useable 4k/120p video at ISOs way beyond 12,800. The Sony A1, as Sony's flagship camera, was the first camera ever able to capture 50 MP photos at 30 frames per second. It's no secret that Sony makes incredible camera bodies with industry leading technology.
