Another device that X-Adventurer featured at DEMA was a very interesting optical snoot that uses a glass lens to focus incoming light. The use of snoots for super macro photography is somewhat outside our wheelhouse but we’re going to take a crack at introducing a device that elevates the craft. Most snoots are mere collimators that take a bright light and only allow very straight light beams to pass through – we’re talking basic holes with tubes attached to them.
But there’s another class of light modifying accessories called ‘optical’ snoots that collimate light in a much more sophisticated fashion. Using a special lens system the optical snoots don’t simply reduce light to its straightened rays, but instead collect more of the light and straighten it into a well formed beam.
This means that with optical snoots you need less powerful dive lights to create a strong and bright spotlight for macro subjects, giving you more freedom and options for capturing that perfect super macro photograph. We couldn’t find too many examples of a wet-lens style optical snoot for this purpose so we are curious to learn how X-Adventurer will eventually price their optical snoot. 
Give Macro Subjects Maximum Light With The X-Adventurer Optical Snoot
Jake Adams
Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.
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