For Sale Canon G7X Mark II, with Fantasea housing and lighting kit

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Kes Tagney

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Location
Montreal, Canada
# of dives
2500 - 4999
Asking Price: $3400 CAD

Hi I'm selling a Canon GX7 Mark II with Fantasea FG7X II Underwater housing, and full light and filter kit. Below is a full list of everything included. I put this kit together with a lot of effort and research put into finding the best items to make a great, compact underwater photo and video kit, with potential for future expansion.

- Canon GX7 Mark II - Fantasea FG7X II Underwater housing - Fantasea BigEye F series wide angle lens - Fantasea 67mm threaded red filter - Fantasea Eye Grabber F series - Fantasea M67 threaded filter holder - Fantasea RedEye Filter F series - Ultralight Control Systems tray, arms, and handles - Ikalite DS51 Strobe, Fiber optic cable and Converter - Light and Motion, Sola Video 3800 F

I bought all of this equipment in December 2016, and used it for a couple of months while I was working as a dive instructor in Indonesia. It's all in excellent condition and 100% functional without any issues. The only visible signs of use are some light marks on the exterior on the video light, and some water marks on the arms. The strobe has had hardly any use, as I was primarily shooting video.

The camera is in perfect condition without a scratch on it. It's spent 99% of its time in the housing! It's really a fantastic camera. The size of a compact, but with full manual capabilities, all of which are accessible whilst in the housing. Comes with a an extra battery.

The housing is in near perfect condition, with only a couple of very minor external marks.

The kit includes two filters. One which can screw directly into the threads on the front port of the housing, and another which can be placed in the back of the wide angle lens. They both have "grabbers" attached to one of the arms, so you can use them, or remove and store them during your dive.

The video light is 3800 lumens, and has three brightness settings. I went for a powerful light as I wanted to be able to have the light source as far from the subject as possible (giving a softer light), whilst still getting a good strength of light. The strobe is one of Ikalites "lower range" strobes, but honestly I wouldn't want anything bigger than it on a rig this size. It works very well.

The Ultralight arm system is excellent. Easily adjustable in the water, hard wearing, and capable of many different light positions. Each arm is made up of two 8" sections, giving great reach and positioning flexibility.

The whole kit packs down into a Lowpro Flipside Sport 10L backpack (approximately 40cmx20cmx20cm), which I'm including in the package.

I work as a professional videographer, and dive instructor, and always take great care of my equipment. if you would like any validation of who I am pls contact me for details.

Total Value of items bought new: Aprox $5100CAD BEFORE TAX (Aprox due to varying USD-CAD currency values)

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hello,
actually im coming from a glorious G12 with canon wp-dc34 housing and sea&sea ys-d1 strobe....and my idea is now to upgrade to a g7x mark 1 or 2

so i have a couple of questions to you

1) do you sell all the gears together or also separately?

2) also i have a question about the manual white balance:
mainly i try to shoot underwater in ambient light without flash and with my canon G12 it is very easy: i assigned the shortcut button to the custom white balance, so i just point my camera to some white thing (a slate, my fins, sand, etc) and take the shot ........ the camera adjust the WB in a couple of seconds....fast and easy (very important underwater)
i cannot find if the same is possible with the G7X......... i seems that no shortcut button is present.....so the manual WB process becomes long and painful?

tks alot for prompt reply

andrea
 
Hey Andrea,

Did you get my message? I replied to the email but just realized maybe that doesn't work and I have to reply here.

Here is what I wrote:

Hi Andrea!

I am hoping to sell it all as kit, but I may be willing to separate it depending which pieces you are Interested in. Which parts would you be interested in buying?

For the manual white balance, there is not a shortcut button, but it is a very simple process easily achieved in about 20 seconds in the housing. I'll send you a short video to show you how it works. I've attached the video to this mail, let me know if it is working, otherwise you could pass me you email so I can wetransfer you the video?

Thanks!

Kes
 
hello kes,
i did not receive anything... i think ur email has been caught by the yahoo antispam firewall

upload in youtube as private or public (no matter) video and post here the link... is the only way as far as i understand how to disable the yahoo spam filter

tks alot!

a
 
hello,
actually im coming from a glorious G12 with canon wp-dc34 housing and sea&sea ys-d1 strobe....and my idea is now to upgrade to a g7x mark 1 or 2

so i have a couple of questions to you

1) do you sell all the gears together or also separately?

2) also i have a question about the manual white balance:
mainly i try to shoot underwater in ambient light without flash and with my canon G12 it is very easy: i assigned the shortcut button to the custom white balance, so i just point my camera to some white thing (a slate, my fins, sand, etc) and take the shot ........ the camera adjust the WB in a couple of seconds....fast and easy (very important underwater)
i cannot find if the same is possible with the G7X......... i seems that no shortcut button is present.....so the manual WB process becomes long and painful?

tks alot for prompt reply

andrea
The G7X has one button white balance, I use it all the time for my ambient light photos with a Nauticam housing. I hear the G7X Mk II abandoned this capability. Shame on them.
 
I see now is clear...but very much stupid idea from canon to abandon the shortcut button

In the water 20 seconds to take a shot are similar to eternity..... 99% of cases the subject has gone in the meanwhile
 
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