WA or macro for S95?

[Davey Jonesen]

I want to start my underwater photography in a couple months with a new camera that I’m not personally familiar with and in a dive location I’ve never been. I don’t want to bite off more than I can chew to begin with and would like to focus on wide angle or macro. So:

I’m getting a Canon S95 & I’m going to Grand Turk.

Should I get a wide angle lens and work with those types of photos or get a lens that will allow me to work on macro? I’ve read that the S95 is capable of taking decent macro shots so I was leaning towards getting the wide angle lens first and the macro later, but I’m not familiar with what types of photo ops I will have in Grand Turk.

 

[Nemrod]

I don't know how you define "decent" so cannot answer your questions completely. You have not even said which housing you intend to purchase which has a huge bearing on the capability of the camera and which lenses it supports.

Maybe do some research and then re-ask your questions.

N

 

[Gilligan]

The Ikelite or FIX housing is much better suited for add-on wet mount lenses than the Canon housing.

I'll defer to Nemrod on the FIX housing as he is the expert on that one.

Regardless of your choice you will need a lot of practice beforehand learning/combining the use of camera settings, external strobe settings and putting on and taking off of a wet mount lens. Add some current to that and you are task loaded, maybe even task overloaded.

 

[billmosel]

The S95 has a lot of built in features in it. As a newbie to underwater photography I would let the camera do the work for you and as you get more comfortable with it then go and upgrade with wet a mounting lens. Practice with it in the housing above water to get the feel of the different options the camera has to offer.

You will love Grand Turk. Lots of stuff to take pics of above and under the water.