BuoyantSea
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Hey All,
First post. Lurked for a while and decided to giant stride in. I hate to start with a question, but we can't solve this riddle.
I've been diving since 1993 and started shooting underwater macro 12 +/- years ago. I did point & shoot ~5 years before that. My wife got tired of seeing critters that I never saw or were too big for my 100 macro lens, so she bought a GoPro Hero 11 with tray, a Kraken video light, and backscatter flip mount, with +10 and +15 MacroMate lenses. We haven't been in the water with it yet, though in practicing around the yard and in areas of ambient light inside the house, what we've noticed is; with either of the +10 or +15 lenses flipped down in place, light artifacts show up in still shots and in video. It appears to be light coming through the housing, then reflecting on the backside of either lens. When she shoots through the housing only (non-magnified) no light artifacts show up. I will have her send me some examples, so it makes more sense.
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced similar issues. The folks at Backscatter are "working on it", but there's no solution so far.
We really want to get this solved before it contaminates otherwise decent videos/images of fun critters. We have trips coming up to Egypt and Palau that we really hope to capture quality shots of.
Thanks.
Jim
First post. Lurked for a while and decided to giant stride in. I hate to start with a question, but we can't solve this riddle.
I've been diving since 1993 and started shooting underwater macro 12 +/- years ago. I did point & shoot ~5 years before that. My wife got tired of seeing critters that I never saw or were too big for my 100 macro lens, so she bought a GoPro Hero 11 with tray, a Kraken video light, and backscatter flip mount, with +10 and +15 MacroMate lenses. We haven't been in the water with it yet, though in practicing around the yard and in areas of ambient light inside the house, what we've noticed is; with either of the +10 or +15 lenses flipped down in place, light artifacts show up in still shots and in video. It appears to be light coming through the housing, then reflecting on the backside of either lens. When she shoots through the housing only (non-magnified) no light artifacts show up. I will have her send me some examples, so it makes more sense.
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced similar issues. The folks at Backscatter are "working on it", but there's no solution so far.
We really want to get this solved before it contaminates otherwise decent videos/images of fun critters. We have trips coming up to Egypt and Palau that we really hope to capture quality shots of.
Thanks.
Jim