Sometimes I do hate u Marty ... hahaha
My gp2 slip on filter just arrive today. ...
Gp3 still waiting for it to appear in sg. ...
I did shoot some HD2 footage too on many of these dives and it still does pretty well but gets quite a bit noisier at depths beyond 20m compared to the 3. But I shot some really cool footage with it on a couple occasions it wont be as good as the 3 but with protune on I have managed to get better quality video then I managed to shoot with the HD2 before, it will need some work in post as all protune footage will in the hero2 or 3 models when using it but Im pretty impressed with the quality.
Main advantage I see in the 3 is going to the deeper levels where light drops plus having more FPS and higher res modes also cam raw wb is a nice plus. It still wont perfome miracles and you will need to find the best ways to get the most out of it as with most cameras but the improved specs just give much more to work with.
I will post some comparisons between HD2 and HD3 to see how they go and the 2 is still a pretty cool camera just the 3 has taken it up to a new level. I will also try shoot in more modes as there are just so many options I decided to just stick to a few and try out the filters and WB options. I will try more of the modes underwater when I do one of the local piers on my own and dont have to worry about looking out for others, navigating or holding anyone else up.
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Here are a few more screen grabs from some other dives not as deep. Still all 2.7k video grabs in cineform.
This dive was only a max 10m depth with most of it only around 5-6m with vis close to 20m away from the waves where it was reduced. These were all shot with the URPro CYD filter and some light adjustments in cineform.
Here are some lower light shots these were at just around sunset, first images are raw and second are adjusted. Some fogging happened on this dive which shows up in the edges, this was actually an issue on a couple dives. No filters just clear lens and 2x Sola 500 lights max depth was not much more then 5m here but it was actually quite dark much darker then the raw images have it.
I used GoPro antifogs cut in half and used 3 half pieces inside the housing. I will need to be a little more careful regarding fogging but air temp was quite humid 20-24c and water temp 14-16c throughout these dives.
Protune footage in lower light will always have a little bit of noise as there is no in camera noise reduction and so something like neat video will clean these up quite nicely.
