Help with Macro Lens and Dive Filter Compatibility

[mikehsu5913]

I am using the 60m dive housing


Can this macro lens from POLAR PRO:


https://www.polarprofilters.com/col...ducts/macrolensaccessories?variant=8037650181


Be placed over this dive filter from GOPRO:


https://shop.gopro.com/accessories/red-dive-filter-for-dive-plus-wrist-housing/ADVFR-301.html

Thanks!

 

[doctormike]

I don't know, but macro results are much better if you use a video light, and you generally don't use a filter with an artificial light source (the filter compensates for the loss of the red end of the spectrum with depth). You can shoot good macro video using ambient light in very shallow water, but then you wouldn't need a filter because of the shallow depth


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[timz]

Light is ur macro solution...

for non macro video, i use polarpro red filter with lights.

But for macroshot with lights, thr filter might turn ur subject to red.

 

[Nagel616]

I havent used the lens, but I have that red filter. And it looks like the lens mounts to the gopro housing much like the filter does, so I would have to guess that you cannot use them both simultaneously. The red filter is a press fit over the lens. to get the macro lens on then would mean it has to be bigger than the red filter, and wouldn't press fit on the lens without it. The flip 3.1 system looks like you can do both a macro lens and a red filter, but like has been mentioned above, macro lens with lights, or filter without.. most don't use a macro lens with the red filter at the same time.

 

[toozler]

Shot with a red filter AND a macro AND a small light, all at the same time:

[video=youtube;SQIQtTxOcEA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIQtTxOcEA[/video]