DC1000 Wide angle lense issue / question

[NvScubaSteve]

We had our first undewater photographing experience in Grand Cayman last week and WHAT a blast using a camera can be. We used our new DC1000 package which worked worked flawlessly, thank you for a great product for beginers SeaLife. Anyway, I am not sure if this is a configure / setup problem that we are having or if ther is some other issue I am not aware of.

Anyway, we used the wide angle lense, which snaps onto the housing. Viewing the photos using the camera's playback mode the pictures look good. When downloaded into windows and viewed the extreme corners of the photograph are black and the shading appears to be the lense housing, I'm not sure... See the photo below, provided I uploaded it correctly and it is here for an example... By the way this is my sting ray sombrero.... Anybody with suggestions or ideas on this please let me know. I am a huge newbie to underwater photography and to using sealife's products. Overall I am very impressed with the DC1000 so far.

Thanks for any help.

Steve

 

[BrewingDiver]

I carried the wide-angle lens with me on every dive last week in Cozumel, but didn't use it once with my DC1000. I found it wide enough without the WAL. However, I was wondering if it would have the same problem as my DC500 did with the corner-cutting. It looks like there is less of the corners cut off than the DC500 ones were.

If you print any, you might crop them out. That's what I've done in the past.

 

[deeper thoughts]

I have the same setup and have not had this problem. Send a pm to sealifejoe with the pix and he should be able to help you out

 

[Nemrod]

It is called vignetting. It results from a poor match between the wet lens and the camera. You will have to zoom in very slightly or crop in Photoshop Elements. Check and make sure the lens hood is correctly installed. Also make sure the lens is fully engaged. I would have expected a dedicated lens to work without vignetting.

Canon A570IS, Inon WAL100 lens with dome port, Ikelite housing and tray, Inon D2000 strobe

That is the simple explanation, there is more to it.

N

 

[Nemrod]

I think that a 4X6 printi s a 3:2 format, similar to the 35 mm native format, most digi-junk is 4:3 which means when you go to print it on a 4X6 it gets automatically cropped by most printers anyways unless you tell it not to do borderless in which case you will have a white border on each side only. N

 

[sladerer]

This can also be caused by the orientation of the WA lens. Since the lens has a built-in hood, if you do not have this aligned the protrusions could be the source. Try taking a series of pics on dry land with a slight rotation of the lens between each shot, making sure the lens is fully seated.

If all of the shots are affected, the suggestion of a slight zoom at picture time or a slight crop in your favorite photo processing software should do the trick.

 

[SeaLife Joe]

NVScubaSteve,

The camera should not vignette like that. In designing the camera and programing the cameras, we make all the adjsutments necessary to eliminate the vignetting.

It looks like that in production the snap ring which holds the lens onto the camera might not have been seatted properly. I would ask that you contact our service department to get an RA number and then send the unit back to us for replacement.

Joe

 

[NvScubaSteve]

Thanks Joe, Sorry for the delay, I have not been on the board for a few days. I will give them a call as soon as possible. Will I send the entire package back, we purchased the DC1000 Maxx kit or will I only be returning the housing and wide angle lense?

Talk to you soon.

Steve

 

[SeaLife Joe]

Best to just ask the techs what they prefer but I think in this situation the Housing by itself would be fine.