WP-DC35 + Inon FX-30 AD Mount = AD on S-90

[dogdrjohn]

A combination of:
1) Boring NFL playoff games
2) Skull-crushing migraine
3) spare parts laying around
resulted in a rather Mickey Mouse AD mount for my Canon WP-DC35 housing.

The Inon AD mount for a Fuji Fx-30 camera housing looked like a reasonably good fit on the WP-DC35 if it could be cut down to fit over the lens port. A little work with a hack saw and Dremel and sure enough it does fit quite well, even centers naturally. I had sold the FX-30 and housing, and the buyer didn't want the Inon mount base, so I thought "what the h" and did it. The river by my house is a little cold for diving without a dry suit (probably about 40 degrees) so I have not tried it under water, but I can mount my UCL-165AD and UFL-105 AD lenses. They both vignette badly at 28 mm but only a little at 35 mm - heck, even the mount alone vignettes a little at the lower corners at 28mm - but the 105 AD does give a considerably wider view. I don't know what water will do to the whole optics of the thing. I have barely even figured out the camera so I don't know how much I will try while diving Cozumel next month. A few too many variables while drift diving. And I still desperately want a FIX housing - if they would sell it in the aluminum color of the prototype in the pictures on their Japanese web site I would be unable to resist. I still have 3 weeks to learn the camera better before Coz, and hope to be quite familiar with it for Dauin Philippines in May. Maybe have a FIX housing by then. I would love to try an Inon 28AD WA lens, but the FIX 04 lens costs about the same and appears to give a wider view. And, it might be workable with my old Sony P-100/150 system that I am very familiar with. I understand the 28AD is not compatible with the Sony P-150/MPK-PHB combo. I do more close-up/macro photography than true WA, so what I have may be good enough for a little while.

 

[Nemrod]

Do you have the pics you took?

My experiments, which I did post showing dry test shots with the 165AD FE, had no vignetting with my FIX housing.

The silver housing on the FIX page is nice but they are all black. The silver color was raw aluminum before being anodized black. Yeah, they could have anodized them silver but they did not and I doubt they do. Heck, in 9 months we will be looking at the S90A/S100 so on all of these high quality/high dollar housings they need to get them to market and sell them fast before the camera is obsoleted.

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[dogdrjohn]

I forgot about the Inon 165 FE, looks good and price is acceptable and you say small size. See a little vignette at 28, but most lenses seem to do that. Looks like it would work on my old Sony systems as well. Why do you want to change to the 67mm adaptor if you have these Inon lenses?

 

[Nemrod]

I forgot about the Inon 165 FE, looks good and price is acceptable and you say small size. See a little vignette at 28, but most lenses seem to do that. Looks like it would work on my old Sony systems as well. Why do you want to change to the 67mm adaptor if you have these Inon lenses?

Who, me? Because I have both 67mm and AD lenses and because I have an adapter I made myself that goes from 67mm to AD and because the FIX90 adapters are 190 dollars each why buy two when one will do? Also, there is no AD adapter listed on the webpage for the FIX90, there is a 28AD mount but that is not quite the same--is it?

If FIX or Reef or whoever makes a quality AD adapter for this housing I am all over it but right now, I don't know of one unless you do? But, I probably can mount the 165AD FE lens via the 67mm FIX adapter and one of my DIY adapter mounts, maybe.

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