Essentials on Wet Wide Angle Lenses

We cover the essential thing you need to know about a wet wide angle lens. Offering tips, tricks, and important knowledge to get the best photos you can. We cover shade position, burping your lens, lens protection, avoiding vignetting / zoom capabilities, and more.
This information can apply to any wet wide-angle lens you may be using.
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[@youtubegranny]

Thank you. I just got some great pics and the lens shade was in every pic and video! Learn something new every day and after every shoot.

[@JBW-Phuket]

Perfect timing, Scott!

[@Swarrenii]

Thanks for the video sir! This was very helpful and informative!

[@tiff_bond]

Thank you for this very helpful video! 😊 I have a question about fitting the lens correctly : I recently purchased the weefine wfl-02 wide angle wet lens to use on my tg-5 in pt-058 housing, but when screwed all the way on the large hoods are at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions - how do I go about fixing this? (No alan key was supplied with the lens) Thanks 😊

[@BluewaterPhotoStore]

Hi Tiffany, so we just checked and there are no tools included with the lens, but as far as I can tell from the one I just checked, the shade simply needs to be turned by hand. The one I tried was pretty easy to rotate, so I would expect the one you have to be similar. It just sort of rotated to where it needs to be.
Worst case is you would will need to pick up a small hex key as the hardware store, but I would be surprised if it was needed.
Hope that helps! Happy Shooting!

[@ridebike42]

Comment and a question. When burping the lens I sometimes forget to make sure all of the air bubbles have been released and the tiny bubbles seem to create some odd artifacts some times. Question. If you are in low vis with a lot of silt or say algae bloom in the water, how do you keep that from getting in between the lens and the port or is that not a problem?

[@BluewaterPhotoStore]

Hi there, thanks for messaging in! Please feel free to contact us at [e-mail] as well if you have additional questions. To answer your notes though: There are a couple options that come to mind, depending on the situation. Typically the surface has less silt and sediment in the water vs near the bottom where you risk people kicking up the bottom, swell stirring up the sand, etc. So I would recommend burping the lens the moment you get in the water instead of waiting till you drop to the bottom (if there isn't much sediment in the water then there is less concern regarding this). Alternatively, it's good to not actually take off the wet lens entirely (when there is sediment in the water), but to just slightly unscrew it so that the air can leave the gap, but shake the camera (be careful not to lose the lens) so that the air bubbles can make their way out.