UWP News from DEMA: Fantasea Line
Howard Rosenstein, founder of Fantasea Line, has been in the scuba business for nearly 50 years. He was a pioneer of Red Sea diving before setting up Fantasea, and he was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame in 2009 for his life-long contributions to the world of diving. We had the pleasure of meeting up with Howard at DEMA to chat about what was new at Fantasea.
Fantasea has been going for 16 years now and Howard, along with his son Nadav, have expanded the range from underwater housings to now include lighting, optics and accessories.
Fantasea have launched a new light for DEMA called the Radiant 3000F. It is a 3000 lumen light with a “memory” – as it always starts in the mode you were last using. It uses COB technology and has a number of modes, including Wide Angle (120 beam angle), spot (15 beam angle) Red, UV, constant strobe and SOS strobe. To activate the light, you need to push the control button three times in quick succession, which prevents the light from turning on in your dive bag accidentally and running the batteries down before you have started your dive. It offers a high, medium and low intensity setting, which is great for saving battery life when you are not using the light for video or underwater photography.
In the optics range, Fantasea have three new macro lenses: UCL-05 is a +6 diopter; UCL-06 is a +12 diopter and the UCL-09 is a +12.5 diopter. All these work using a 67mm thread and can be attached to the front of the Fantasea (and many other) camera housings/ports. In addition to these lenses for macro lovers, Fantasea also have a new fisheye Super Wide wet lens called the UWL-09. This lens has great optics and has been designed to be used with 24mm lens compact cameras. The hood is easy to rotate so that you can ensure the best positioning.
The great news on the housing front is that the new Sony RX100 MKV will fit into the existing MKIII and MK IV housings, so that you can upgrade your camera without any need to buy a new housing. This is a rare occurrence and will delight many of the Sony RX users.
We hope to be reviewing the new Radiant 3000F video light in the coming months, and hope to be able to try out the UV feature of this light on some corals in the Red Sea early in 2017. Watch this space…
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