A570 "Upgrade"

[UTKnox]

I've been diving & shooting w/ my 570 for a bit over a year now and have decided it's time to move past shooting with just the camera/housing. (For the record, Canon A570IS/WP-DC12)

I definitely want to find a good strobe set-up, and would like to move to wet-lenses as well (which I believe Inon carries). The problem is, I don't have the first clue as to where to look as I'm using the Canon housing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jenazah]

I used 570 previously before upgrading to SLR. The WA lens and external strobe definitely make a lot of difference. If you like to shoot macro stuff, get 2 INON macro lenses and stack it. I used Ikelite housing which already have a 67mm thread on the port. For canon housing you need to buy the lens mounting from INON.

So you basically looking at:

INON America - Product Catalog

and

INON America - Product Catalog

or

INON America - Product Catalog

and a tray,arms and a strobe (depending on your budget).

 

[Nemrod]

This page provides information on the exact parts from Inon that you need.

INON America - News & Events

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[UTKnox]

Thanks to you both, that's an excellent help so far. I'd say I understand the lenses and whatnot, but I do have a question so far as the base & arm's are concerned. If I were to buy the Inon Mount Base, would I be stuck using solely Inon arms/strobes/etc from there on out? I'd certainly hope not. Assuming that I can use different manufacturers products, does anyone have any good recommendations that will work w/ the Inon Mount base DC12?....I'm a noob, sorry!

 

[jenazah]

ULCS tray and arm should work with the INON mount.

Light & Motion Digital Still Housing

It's around the middle section "For owners of the Inon Dbase plate and Mount base"

 

[Nemrod]

ULCS tray and arm should work with the INON mount.

Light & Motion Digital Still Housing

It's around the middle section "For owners of the Inon Dbase plate and Mount base"

The Inon strobe arms and Inon D2000/Z240 strobe attach to one another using one inch balls. The superb and excellent Inon D2000 strobe also has a one inch ball socket that attaches to it. Therefore any arm system that works with the one inch balls should work and intermix.

Here is the deal, you asked, so here it is, the AD base is the central component for adapting the camera housing to the wet mount AD lenses and the Inon base. Without it you cannot utilize the wet mount lenses.

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[UTKnox]

Gotta love progress...Thanks again for the help folks.

More questions:

Are the wet mount lenses worth the limitation the AD base seems to present? Meaning, are the Inon grips/arms/base good enough quality where I'm not going to be pissed I'm stuck with them as they're the only thing that will work with the AD base?

Are there any other strobes of similar quality/feature set to the D2000/Z240? That's a mighty steep price to pay for a beginner.

 

[jenazah]

I used Sea & Sea YS-90DX and I'm pretty happy with it. I still use it with my DSLR now, ideally I would like to upgrade to Ikelite DS-125 or DS-160, but I'm out of budget already

You can check my pictures at:
Underwater - a set on Flickr

Most of the pictures there (except for the macro) were taken with A570IS with Single S&S YS-90DX strobe and a WA Lens.

 

[Nemrod]

I think the link you were given to the Light and Motion page, they have a base that will work with the Inon AD mount.

As far as I am concerned, the strobe to die for is the Inon D2000.

Are the wet mount AD lenses worth it? Again, as far as I am concerned, without them none of it is worth anything, they are the cake, the icing and the plate and the fork.

Look, you are not going to use the Inon tray with a dSLR. It is for small digi-cams. If you upgrade to a dSLR or even a larger camera like a G9 then you will be likely using a different tray. You should be able to use the arms and balls and strobe.

The amazing Inon D2000 is optical only, if at some point you might want direct connection then spend the money for the Inon Z240 or just get the D2000 now and use it as either an optical sync slave as a second strobe or you can optically sync with G9 or even dSLR and it will work fine. Many high dollar dSLR houings have optical sync ports built in.

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