[rollei_list] Re: Rolleimarin (was Funny Googles...)
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:56:12 -0700
At 08:41 PM 10/20/2005, Doug Shea wrote:
Don,
It would be great to dive with a club. I dove
and photographed at the Channel Islands which
was very nice (sort of your neighborhood) and
made a couple trips to Cozumel, too. They were
combined with trips to Chichen Itza which was
interesting; they have done some diving recently
in the sacrificial pools there � that would be
interesting (or certainly different). Back on
topic here: I can only imagine what those
beautiful 6x6�s look like coming out of a
Rolleimarin. I always keep my eye open for an
SL66 housing; they�re out there and one will come around one of these days.
Doug
There are some plastic housings on the market,
made right here in San Diego I think, but I
wouldn't trust such a fine camera to those
housings, so I won't give you the company name on list.
Regarding clubs, our Underwater Photographic
Society still exists, but in much reduced form
than it did 10 or more years back. In the early
years we used to put on a two-night film festival
filling 3,000 seats in our Civic Auditorium, with
different shows each night. We had some club
presentations, and of course presentations by
world famous people, including the Costeau
Family, among others. The big shows went on for
at least 19 years, but then we all know that U/W
photography became less exciting to the public, and frankly, to me.
I agree that SL66 U/W shots would be superb. The
best shots I got with the Rolleimarin were with
the close-up adapters, just superb sharpness and
contrast. I would think that any SL66 housing
wouldn't have the capability of swinging a lens
adapter or filter in and out while diving,
however you would have the choice of using a
wide-angle lens and going close up with the SL66.
During the past 15 years, dome ports have become
standard, and as it turns out, it's not difficult
to get a good combination of port radius and lens
focal length, much to my surprise. Chet Tussey
sort of pioneered dome ports, in conjunction with
Nikon. He has closed Tussey Underwater but you
can find his housings on Google and eBay. He
lives just over the hill in a super sea-cliff
house with a wonderful view of the sunset.
Regarding domed ports, I suspect that Richard and
I would take the same position I did with Chet,
that matching a lens and dome would be difficult
and would create noticeable distortion if not
perfect. Turns out to be not so hard. Chet did
it experimentally and turned out some great products. Richard??
Don Williams
La Jolla, CA
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