Underwater photos from a lake in Leipzig (Germany)

[Marcell Nikolausz]

I've just back from scubadiving. I used minolta 100mm macro on my sony a100. The camera was in an ikelite UW-case+ikelite UW strobe was used. Some results below:







You can find more pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikolausz_ ... 997253388/

Cheers

Marcell

[Birma]

Extraordinary pictures Marcell, wonderful images of the pike. I would have never expected a lake to be as clear as this.

[Dr. Harout]

Thumbs up!

[UrsaMajor]

Extraordinary pictures Marcell, wonderful images of the pike. I would have never expected a lake to be as clear as this.

Every time I visit Zurich I am impressed by how clear water is in the lake on which it is located.

From the shore I can see the lake bottom a couple of meters below the surface.

With best wishes,
- Tom -

[Marcell Nikolausz]

Thanks for the comments. Kulkwitzer lake is a very nice and clean lake, one of the best freshwater diving spot in Europe (It's usually selected to the top10 in scuba diving magazines) and I'm lucky enough to live nearby. But yesterday the visibility was not so good. We had some rain before and it was quite windy.
I tried my old minolta 100mm macro first time in a lake. Although the visibility was good it's not comparable to tropical sea conditions and usually shorter focal length lenses are recommended. Nevertheless I gave a try. It worked, when I managed to get close enough to the fish, but the 50mm macro or a wide angle lens is better most of the time. We found a giant school of fish (hundreds of them) and my lens was pretty useless. The other problem was that my copy is showing its age and many times it had problem with autofocusing, especially driving from macro range back to far distance.

Some previous photos from two years ago with the sigma 15mm fisheye lens:






Marcell

[NeilOffkey75]

WEll done Marcell this are great images

[aster]

Congratulations Marcell!

Great clarity and precise focusing on all takes. A100 did well on your underwater adventures. My complements as well for the clean and clear lake water. It certainly deserves to be ranking so high in the list.

Thanks for sharing. ( Very nice gallery as well )


Yildiz

[Greg Beetham]

You have done extraordinarily well using such a slow focussing lens Marcell, marvellous underwater shots.
Greg