This is a great, affordable invention but of course would be even better if it came in lens sizes. With an 85mm lens there is way too much wiggle room in the lens covering to shoot without keeping a hand on it to make it taut. With a 24mm lens, forget about it. I think one is supposed to be able to collapse the lens covering down around itself when using a shorter lens but it doesn't stay collapsed.
Here are my ten tips to having success with the Aquapac bag:
1. If you at all plan on shooting underwater you need to be wearing goggles or a diving mask if you want be able to look through the view finder.
2. I would only use a prime lens because of how much wiggle room is in the bag over the lens portion. I'd want to be able to rubber band the bag exactly right and then leave it alone, which I don't think you can do with an adjustable lens.
3. Get your settings right before you put the camera into the bag. For a bright day, ISO of 800, f/11.0 and a shutter of 1/1000 worked well for me.
4. When you're putting your camera in, be very gentle when inching the lens cover portion over your lens. It's easy to throw the lens switch from auto to manual while putting the camera into the bag.
5. Unless your lens is 100+ mm and takes up all of the space, you'll need an extra-wide rubber band, like the kind that come wrapped around newspapers. Inch the lens portion of the plastic down until the hard lens cover meets your lens, and then rubber band it around the soft plastic portion to hold the bag to your camera.
6. It's absolutely necessary that you put all 3 moisture absorbing packets into the camera bag when you're using it, or the lens will fog and you can't focus and can't see.
7. If you're in a pool where water is being splashed around, or you're going under and coming back up, don't forget to wipe the water droplets off the lens covering or they'll be in your photos.
8. If you're going to submerge it, do the bubble test first. Put it part way under and a few bubbles will come up from the air trapped where the locks are, but that should be all. No more bubbles after that.
9. Periodically check your camera's dial to make sure you haven't accidentally changed modes. My camera easily went from M to A-DEP while I fumbled to find the shutter button in the water.
10. If you want to make one of those really cool half-under half-over water pictures you can't do it at a public pool on the weekend. You have to do it somewhere that the water is nearly smooth as glass, not where the waves are crashing in your face.
My first pic is posted under user images for this product on the main page.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2013
This is a great, affordable invention but of course would be even better if it came in lens sizes. With an 85mm lens there is way too much wiggle room in the lens covering to shoot without keeping a hand on it to make it taut. With a 24mm lens, forget about it. I think one is supposed to be able to collapse the lens covering down around itself when using a shorter lens but it doesn't stay collapsed.
Here are my ten tips to having success with the Aquapac bag:
1. If you at all plan on shooting underwater you need to be wearing goggles or a diving mask if you want be able to look through the view finder.
2. I would only use a prime lens because of how much wiggle room is in the bag over the lens portion. I'd want to be able to rubber band the bag exactly right and then leave it alone, which I don't think you can do with an adjustable lens.
3. Get your settings right before you put the camera into the bag. For a bright day, ISO of 800, f/11.0 and a shutter of 1/1000 worked well for me.
4. When you're putting your camera in, be very gentle when inching the lens cover portion over your lens. It's easy to throw the lens switch from auto to manual while putting the camera into the bag.
5. Unless your lens is 100+ mm and takes up all of the space, you'll need an extra-wide rubber band, like the kind that come wrapped around newspapers. Inch the lens portion of the plastic down until the hard lens cover meets your lens, and then rubber band it around the soft plastic portion to hold the bag to your camera.
6. It's absolutely necessary that you put all 3 moisture absorbing packets into the camera bag when you're using it, or the lens will fog and you can't focus and can't see.
7. If you're in a pool where water is being splashed around, or you're going under and coming back up, don't forget to wipe the water droplets off the lens covering or they'll be in your photos.
8. If you're going to submerge it, do the bubble test first. Put it part way under and a few bubbles will come up from the air trapped where the locks are, but that should be all. No more bubbles after that.
9. Periodically check your camera's dial to make sure you haven't accidentally changed modes. My camera easily went from M to A-DEP while I fumbled to find the shutter button in the water.
10. If you want to make one of those really cool half-under half-over water pictures you can't do it at a public pool on the weekend. You have to do it somewhere that the water is nearly smooth as glass, not where the waves are crashing in your face.
My first pic is posted under user images for this product on the main page.
Here are my ten tips to having success with the Aquapac bag:
1. If you at all plan on shooting underwater you need to be wearing goggles or a diving mask if you want be able to look through the view finder.
2. I would only use a prime lens because of how much wiggle room is in the bag over the lens portion. I'd want to be able to rubber band the bag exactly right and then leave it alone, which I don't think you can do with an adjustable lens.
3. Get your settings right before you put the camera into the bag. For a bright day, ISO of 800, f/11.0 and a shutter of 1/1000 worked well for me.
4. When you're putting your camera in, be very gentle when inching the lens cover portion over your lens. It's easy to throw the lens switch from auto to manual while putting the camera into the bag.
5. Unless your lens is 100+ mm and takes up all of the space, you'll need an extra-wide rubber band, like the kind that come wrapped around newspapers. Inch the lens portion of the plastic down until the hard lens cover meets your lens, and then rubber band it around the soft plastic portion to hold the bag to your camera.
6. It's absolutely necessary that you put all 3 moisture absorbing packets into the camera bag when you're using it, or the lens will fog and you can't focus and can't see.
7. If you're in a pool where water is being splashed around, or you're going under and coming back up, don't forget to wipe the water droplets off the lens covering or they'll be in your photos.
8. If you're going to submerge it, do the bubble test first. Put it part way under and a few bubbles will come up from the air trapped where the locks are, but that should be all. No more bubbles after that.
9. Periodically check your camera's dial to make sure you haven't accidentally changed modes. My camera easily went from M to A-DEP while I fumbled to find the shutter button in the water.
10. If you want to make one of those really cool half-under half-over water pictures you can't do it at a public pool on the weekend. You have to do it somewhere that the water is nearly smooth as glass, not where the waves are crashing in your face.
My first pic is posted under user images for this product on the main page.
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