MFT Lenses for Cuba

[js1221]

Headed to the Gardens of the Queen in Cuba next year. Packing my Olympus E-M1.M3 I’m wondering about lens choices. I planned on using my 12-45mm in a 4” dome port as my all around lens. Should I think about shooting macro there too or just stick to general photography with a wide angle focus?

 

[WS007]

I have quit MFT, now Sony FF, but still remember well...

I had EM5II and EM1II and used them with the 12-40mm f/2.8 lens in Zen 170mm dome in Nauticam housings (pretty similar to the 12-45mm). This was a brilliant solution for fish portraits, but for me this would not be wide enough for most of the WA sceneries...
Native solutions would be the Zuiko 8mm fisheye (in 4" or 140mm domport) or, when rectilinear, the Zuiko 8-25mm f/4 in 170mm or 180mm domeports. Even better, for my taste, the Tokina 10-17mm fisheye with Metabones 0.71x adapter or the Canon 8-15mm f/4 with Metabones 1x, both in Zen 100mm or Nauricam 140mm domeports (I really miss a zoom fisheye with the FF system I have now)...

Wolfgang

 

[rmorgan]

There is some macro—I think I used a macro lens twice in 11 dive days; but I agree with WS—a fisheye or very wide zoom would be most useful. Sharks and grouper will be very close, and there are nice schools of midsized fish. I used my 8mm Panasonic much more than at any other location, but also the 12-40 which is my usual.

 

[Wobbegong_th]

I'm using EM5III in Ikelite Housing. The lenses that I'd use for UW are:
1) 7-14mm f2.8 - Wide Angle in clear to medium viz.
2) 12-40mm f2.8 - Medium to Fish portrait, and some degree of macro
3) 30mm f3.5 Macro - Macro range, small fish to large nudi
4) 60mm f2.8 Macro - Macro-Super Macro range, large to tiny nudi

Also got a +10 dioptor wetlens on flip adaptor for super-super macro.

No. 1 & 2 use same combination of 6" Dome Port & port extension
No. 3 use a standard flat port
No. 4 use same standard flat port as No.3 with same port extension as No. 1 & 2

So it's quite depend on what you'd expect to take photo of, and what brand of housing or port combination that compatible with your intended lens.