Dome Ports For Water Photography With 24mm Lens (which dome is best?)

Answering a Question today about which is the best dome port to invest in for split levels and other water photography if you have a 24mm wide angle lens.
There are so many options now with dome ports, so in this video I briefly go over the benefits and drawbacks for the four sizes from the Aquatech range of Water housings.
Please comments with any questions or suggestions.. I always love hearing your inputs!
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[@seanorphoto]

Absolutely love the way you create shot snappy to the point TH-cam videos. So informative

[@dreamlifephotography]

thanks so much... appreciate your kind words and support

[@wildpatagoniafilms16]

Hey mate.. another cool post! I just binged on your whole channel! Watched all your post while chilling here in NYC... lost of good info! 👏 cheers! ;)

[@dreamlifephotography]

Oh thats epic man!!! so stoked you like the videos!! appreciate you letting me know, helps to keep me going

[@seananderson8470]

Thanks for another great video. What are the downsides to using a dome port with a longer lens than it's designed for? Say if I could fit a 50mm lens in there, what would I be losing?

[@dreamlifephotography]

Hey Sean, thanks for your great question. So the dome ports are curved and rounded much like the shape of wide angle and fish eye lens, so optically they are more of a match. When you start getting into the 50mm focal range and above the lens is flatter in nature which matches up better optically with a flat port. Its not that you can't shoot with a 50mm through a dome port, its just better optically to use a flat port for a 50mm. Also the dry port method that I reccomend with flat ports seem to work better than the lick and spit method for the domes when using longer lenses (but don't get confused with this - always use saliva for domes and dry port method for flat ports no matter what lens you are using)... so if you only have a dome port at the moment I would give the 50mm a go inside it... I know many that have done this with some success, its just not the ideal.... so you would just get less images tack sharp and compromise a bit of lens quality by doing this... hope that helps?

[@seananderson8470]

@@dreamlifephotography Thanks for the detailed answer. That makes sense and answered what I was looking for. I'll give the longer lens a test in the dome port and see how the distortion looks!