IMAGE: Fuji X-M1, Fuji 14mm f/2.8, and the Aquapac 451 in the local river of my neighborhood here in Nuuk, Greenland after a couple of days of heavy rain. 1/1250sec, f/7.1, ISO 800.
shared at the FR-facebook photostream (feel free to keep up sharing and voting the images)
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FR-reader Mads Pihl asked for an advice (via FR-facebook), and I hope the X-shooter community here on Fujirumors can help. Here is his question:
I got the Aquapac after hearing about Czech photographer Paul Schlemmer’s experience with this cheap underwater soft “house” [admin: read the article here)], and I picked up a cheap X-M1 as it seems a lot easier to get into the aquapac than the X-E2 and X-T1.
The goal is to put it to more serious use on a field assignment in North Greenland this summer, but for now I am just playing around in the water around my house.
Does anyone else have experience with this or other underwater solutions with a Fuji X camera?
Cheers,
Mads
Northbound Photo (website – 500px)
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Thanks for sharing this, Patrick. It’ll be interesting to see if this is something other X-shooters do as well, and especially how they do it.
you’re welocme Mads. Let’s see if you and Paul are the pioneers of underwater photography with X-series cameras, of if there is someone else out there 😉
Hahaha 🙂 I am not sure standing in frigid meltwater in Greenland compares much to Paul’s work, which I really enjoyed.
The Aquapac is not a bad solution, but it takes a lot of fiddling to work with it, and I am sure there are other solutions out there. I just haven’t been able to find any that were more housing-like and built for an X-camera.
I like shooting over-unders, which is hard to do with Fuji X, considering tiny lenses. Other than that, Aquapac is a way to go ))
Fujifilm makes a nice underwater case for XQ1 (WP-XQ1)… but that’s about it.
For shallow water, I wouldn’t invest into anything more serious than Aquapac (and a few bricks of silica gel)). And for deeper dives, you’ll need a lighting system that Fuji just doesn’t have.
http://bertstephani.com/uplace-bmc-pro-triathlon-team-the-wet-part/
Seems like that DicaPac is a great investment 🙂 Good stuff!
Im using the DicaPac wp-s3 for my water shots using the X-T1 and it seems to work ok. http://siahphoto.com/blog
Really nice surf series 🙂
great gallery!
Beautiful pictures.
I used Dicapac for fuji-x1 in Ticino water canyons with 35mm 1.4
https://www.facebook.com/evgeny.meerson/media_set?set=a.741144659262544.1073741877.100001010511218&type=1¬if_t=like
it would be really neat if Aquapac/dicapac etc would make one with a dome port.