Wide Angle Underwater

kelpdiver wrote:

I think this is where the high MPs starts to work against you. With the MPs in the upper teens, I can shoot a lot at 1/100 and maybe even 1/80 if I can swim parallel to the subject. Though this is a pain point for canons in how they handle A mode with or without auto ISO. No way to enforce a minimum shutter speed. Makes you want to go to shutter priority, but then A meanders. Manual is too rigid. Bit frustrating when doing a lot of depth changes.

I think my Nikon has a pretty good system - I can set both lower and upper limits - but I'm not sure what limits to set on either end.

One win, however, with your 45MP plus a wide fisheye - you don't really need to look at the viewfinder - you can just aim and shoot, and do a little bit of cropping to get the composition right. Esp helpful for the shark dives.

I missed the part about fisheye.   Right now I don't have one, other than my old, trusty 10.5 F2.8 DX.   I've though about the new 8-15mm, but I tend not to like fisheye that much.   As has been said before, fisheye shots are like tequila shots.  A few are nice, but too many make you sick.  I don't want a whole dive to be fisheye.

I really miss a normal zoom.   But at least I've made up for the lack of a decent macro capability with all my years of point-n-shoots.   4 years with the D810 and 105macro, plus another year now with the D850 have given me tons of close-up and macro shots.  One reason I've been wanting to do more wide angle lately.