Best Underwater Wide-Angle Cameras and Accessories

With its new Sea Dragon flash and 2,000-lumen photo/video/dive light, this system makes the most of the DC1400’s photo and HD-video capabilities. a 16mm lens increases field of view by 80 percent. $1,129.95 camera, tray, grips, lights; $299.95 fisheye lens; sealife-cameras.com

Made of scratch- resistant glass for durability and ultrasharp optics, this red filter snaps securely to the Hero3 housing. $39.99; polarprofilters.com

ULCS’s lightweight aluminum handle is rubber-padded for comfort and a sure grip, and it’s compact enough that you can fold it up into a large bC pocket or let it hang loose from a lanyard. (Camera and light not included.) $90; ulcs.com

You’re back from a dive holiday with hundreds of underwater photos — a few are decent; most are blah. Vivid-Pix’s easy-to-use software takes away the guesswork (and time), allowing you to easily turn blah and good shots into great ones with the simple click of a button. $49.95; vivid-pix.com

Canon EOS 70D System by Ikelite

Ikelite's EOS 70D housing offers true through-the-lens capability, with circuitry that tells the camera when an external flas is attached to ensure proper exposure. The DS161 substrobe produces superior light quality with even coverage, and is the industry's first underwater strobe with a built-in LED video light. MSRP: $1,600 for the housing; $1,100 per strobe; ikelite.com

Sony NEX-6 System by Reef Photo

This compact system packages the Sony NEX-6 — a mirrorless, interchangeable-lens camera — inside nauticam’s sleek NA-NEX-6 housing. The system shown uses a Sony 16mm f/2.8 wide-angle lens with Sony’s VCL-ECF1 fisheye converter and nauticam 4.33-inch fisheye dome port for a 180-degree angle of coverage. $749 camera; $1,650 housing; $249 wide-angle lens; $495 fisheye dome port; reefphoto.com

Backscatter’s flip 3.1 filter system for the newest GoPro model optimizes shooting with shallow (0 to 20 feet), dive (20 to 50) and deep (50-plus) filters. $134 for the Flip 3.1 combo package with shallow, dive and deep filters; $49 adds a handle and tray with tripod adapter; backscatter.com

Sony RX100 II System by Ikelite

Sony’s Cybershot RX100 II is a pocket-size camera with big-camera features. Ikelite’s housing puts all the functions at your fingertips, and provides near-neutral buoyancy for easy handling. The W-30 wide-angle conversion lens helps capture the action up close, and color-correcting filters give vivid images without a strobe. $400 housing; $475 wide-angle conversion lens; $70 filters; ikelite.com

Canon S110 System by Reef Photo
Even tucked inside Nauticam’s NA-S110 aluminum housing, the whole package is compact and light enough to easily grip with one hand. With a fix uWL-28 fisheye wet-mount lens and an Inon S2000 strobe with fiber-optic connection on a Nauticam tray, it’s a mighty little powerhouse. $349 camera; $900 housing; $399 fisheye lens; $10 adapter; $539 strobe; reefphoto.com