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Fantasea Announces Wide Angle & Macro Lenses For The Canon G11

By Jason Heller, August 27, 2009 @ 12:37 PM (EST)

Fantasea Line is officially the first underwater housing and accessories company to announce their readiness for the anticipated rush of underwater photographers using the Canon Powershot G11.

The G9 and then G10 have been widely recognized as the top of the line point & shoot cameras for underwater photography, and the G11 will surely follow suit. While we expect announcements about G11 housings soon, to date the only housing officially announced has been from Canon itself, the WP-DC34.

Fantasea's Big Eye wide angle lens adapter is a wet lens that can be attached to and removed from the Canon WP-DC34 housing while underwater. This is the same lens adapter available for the Canon G10. The Big Eye provides 80 degrees of coverage.

Additionally, Fantasea has an available macro adapter lens (the Sharp Eye) and a red filter (the Red Eye) that will also fit the Canon G11.

Comments

Sep 22, 2009 8:41 AM

Glen whelpley wrote:

The WP-DC34 seems like an inexpensive solution to underwater photography using the new canon g 11 - except for one great flaw - based on the photos of this u/w case and after calling Canon (they could not tell me either) there is no way to change the exposure and speed while underwater - the dial that permits you to change the exposure is not present on this case - This creates a large problem with changing light atdepth or passing cloud cover - I guess theonly way could be to change the ISO or speed ? If anyone knows the answer or has any other ideas Please contact me - As i have not purchased the camera ,case or wide angle lens - I await you answers Wdive@aol.com - Thanks Glen

Sep 22, 2009 8:48 AM

Jason Heller wrote:

Can that be?

There will be third party housing options for this camera as well, albeit significantly more expensive. It's a great camera, but one of the reasons it's great are the manual controls. I have yet to see one of the WP-DC34's and will have to look into this.

Anyone else have any info?

Sep 22, 2009 10:43 PM

Jan Acosta wrote:

I have not seen the G11 but for the G10 my initial impressions were the same. I later found out that the upper left button acts like an activator button and if you press it, you can control all the manual settings like aperture and shutter speed using other buttons instead of the dial. Its a bit clumsy to do at first but one would get the hang of it.

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