As promised long ago I am finally done with my cozumel trip videos. Some thoughts and reflections:
With a heavy heart I am officially retiring my Bonica HDDV camera. My beloved camera served me well all these years but it is time for a change. My gopro cameras outperformed it on every level by a mile. To make things worse my camera did not flood but fogged up between lens and glass on the lens and messed up my auto/white balance... permanently. 80% of my bonica footage on my trip is useless as it was fogged up entire time. I did a surgery on my camera to discover what caused it. Right now it is sitting in a rice bowl in a zip bag but either way camera is being retired.
Gopro footage barely received any color correction except for a couple of places. Even with all its faults I found that polar pro filters work wonders. Granted I could have tweaked my footage to make it a little less yellow... but after spending hours and hours and weeks and weeks I really ran out of motivation. I felt that I would not be doing it justice by messing with it more. I previewed every clip on my apple tv on my 50 inch plasma tv and it looks spectacular.
One of my polar pro filter broke on 2nd dive of the trip. I have been promised a replacement but its been well over a month now with no news. I fixed the broken tab using JB-weld and an old credit card. I am so impressed with the filters I will be purchasing polarized filters from them.
There were issues with gopro on my dives. At 90ft deep I saw back door very visibly pressing up against battery back pack. One of cameras stopped recording a few times so I had to keep an eye on that.
Camera positions: Bonica in middle of 2 hander tray. Gopro #1 facing forward on left fork. Gopro #2 facing backward on right fork. I was able to capture some really cool angles because wall was on my right hand side. Now with bonica being retired I am thinking of moving one gopro to middle of the tray in its place.
There are 24 videos total. I compiled them into a playlist so feel free to come back a few times and watch videos you do like.
90% of the video footage came from gopros. 10% (visibly fogged up) came from bonica.... what I could salvage.
Videos feature popular deep and shallow reefs along cozumel.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTIyopOxu-PjLF6g7YvTxy-OJXMZ79SkX
With a heavy heart I am officially retiring my Bonica HDDV camera. My beloved camera served me well all these years but it is time for a change. My gopro cameras outperformed it on every level by a mile. To make things worse my camera did not flood but fogged up between lens and glass on the lens and messed up my auto/white balance... permanently. 80% of my bonica footage on my trip is useless as it was fogged up entire time. I did a surgery on my camera to discover what caused it. Right now it is sitting in a rice bowl in a zip bag but either way camera is being retired.
Gopro footage barely received any color correction except for a couple of places. Even with all its faults I found that polar pro filters work wonders. Granted I could have tweaked my footage to make it a little less yellow... but after spending hours and hours and weeks and weeks I really ran out of motivation. I felt that I would not be doing it justice by messing with it more. I previewed every clip on my apple tv on my 50 inch plasma tv and it looks spectacular.
One of my polar pro filter broke on 2nd dive of the trip. I have been promised a replacement but its been well over a month now with no news. I fixed the broken tab using JB-weld and an old credit card. I am so impressed with the filters I will be purchasing polarized filters from them.
There were issues with gopro on my dives. At 90ft deep I saw back door very visibly pressing up against battery back pack. One of cameras stopped recording a few times so I had to keep an eye on that.
Camera positions: Bonica in middle of 2 hander tray. Gopro #1 facing forward on left fork. Gopro #2 facing backward on right fork. I was able to capture some really cool angles because wall was on my right hand side. Now with bonica being retired I am thinking of moving one gopro to middle of the tray in its place.
There are 24 videos total. I compiled them into a playlist so feel free to come back a few times and watch videos you do like.
90% of the video footage came from gopros. 10% (visibly fogged up) came from bonica.... what I could salvage.
Videos feature popular deep and shallow reefs along cozumel.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTIyopOxu-PjLF6g7YvTxy-OJXMZ79SkX
