I am curious if anyone here has used either of these two video cameras. I'd like to try and get some videos in the water and don't have a lot of green reserves. A couple searches didn't turn up much but expensive equipment. It would be awesome if anybody had some clips they had shot. Hope to hear some good feedback these items.
http://www.housingcamera.com/Snapper-HDDV-with-Skin-Box-p/hddv-spt-prem.htm
go pro has a new HD cam coming out that is hard to beat for the money. i saw some footage at the outdoor retailer trade show this summer and it was outstanding. i'm in line for one.
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I would have one of the go pros now but I was looking for something that may be able to be used for a traditional video camera. I really like the the little go pros.
Here’s a decent one for the budget minded
http://www.dxgusa.com/products/high-definition-camcorders/dxg-u579vs.html
At $150 this one looks like it will be really hard to beat.
Here’s a link to a short video that my friend Stéphane shot with his Go-Pro. He’s riding the board that I made for his 40th birthday.
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/stéphane+garnier/video/x9rd55_surf2_sport
As a professional videographer one thing I would say is that it is hard to get an all in one camera. If you want a video camera look for that first. The DXG camera has a price that is hard to beat, but it does not shoot great quality. A decent water housing for a small digital video camcorder will be somewhere around $300 up to thousands. Remember that shooting surfing puts you in the impact zone, and that can destroy a housing. I’ve been in a horrendous accident shooting surfing from the water with movie cameras.
I’ve been researching cheap waterproof still cameras to shoot surfing.
For
a simple low cost setup, I would buy canon’s point and shoot waterproof
camera. I don’t know the model number, but it has good reviews from
reputable sources and can shoot 720P HD video. I think it costs just a
little more than $300 USD.This is not a video camera, but a still camera that can shoot video.
I think I'm buy that one. So cheap!
The deck on that board looks amazing! Are those curved stringers in the board?
Thanks for the advice sharkcountry. I will have to check out the still shot market. That DGX might be a fair bargain in itself as well. That Sanyo video recorder has pretty good video quality from clips that I have found around the web. I certainly don't expect professional image quality, decent is all I am after. What worries me on that specific camera is the o-rings are not user serviceable but need to be sent away. The other camera has a protective skin but the auto focus is audible during playback due to proximity to the mic. I am not sure how easy it will be to edit out that noise with basic video editing software.
Generally speaking, the audio from those recordings is completely unusable.
Regardless of what camera is used…$150, $500, or $1500 doesn’t matter.
There is simply too much interference for the audio to be worth anything.
Image quality and your budget should really be the only things on your mind IMHO.
The high end DSLR cameras from Canon and the new Panasonic GH1 have an input jack for an external mic. The Canons are already being used to shoot short indie movies. These are the rage right now with all the success of the RED ONE digital cinema camera. A RED setup will cost at least $30K, but a nice Canon setup may be half of that.
I think that if you put a little lube on the o rings everytime you open the water housing, it should keep them nice and soft for a long time. I'm not sure if vaseline is OK or if you need a silicone lube.
I really appreciate all the input here, good stuff. I need to find a place here in CFL to try some of these things out.
for just about about everything to do with underwater photography/videography check out backscatter.com. they have houseings for for still and video,if you have a decent point and shoot that shoots movie mode they may have a housing for it
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