Customer Reviews

Sealife SL970 Wide Angle Lens

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This lens is proprietary for Sealife cameras. It does increase your field of view by 50% and easily snaps on and off your Sealife camera underwater. This is critical, as you will get a blurry line of bubble if you don't release all the air between the lens and camera. On some of the Sealife models, there is a convenient `lens dock' where you can temporarily slide your lens into and keep it firmly attached. This 24-mm lens is of high quality optical glass but there are only two issues that troubled me. There is a rubber gasket or ring around the outside of the lens that is thin and loosely attached. Its use is not readily apparent. The big problem I found that although you get 50% more image, you also get rounded black corners, giving the look of your photo or video like it was shot through a telescope. I'd recommended viewing one in person before buying it. It is of good quality.

Pretty amazing when added with the Sealife camera. Easy to clip on even under water and comes with handy little clip ons. Definitely a good buy.

It took me a while to figure out how to attach the lens to the camera. Once I did that I was surprised to see that pictures have rounded corners that require cropping. Maybe I'm not using the lens correctly but so far that's what I've discovered. I'm not an expert by any means.

It's a wide angle lens for Sealife cameras. It's well made, sturdy and does its job well. There are only two issues i have with it,
1. Sometimes when trying to capture sunbursts the inner lens reflects the writing on the camera aperture which is then ghosted onto the photos
2. the rubber ring around the outer lens doesn't seem to be all that well attached. It's still on, but seems to be coming loose.

All in all it does exactly what it says on the tin. If you have a Sealife camera and want a wide angle lens for it then this is pretty much your only choice, so you may as well go for it.