3D diver
Contributor
Hi,
I recently returned to diving and hoped to revive my interest in underwater 3D photography. Unfortunately, while I was away, Nikon stopped supporting their Nikonos V cameras and I haven't been able to get my cameras serviced. So I took the plunge and bought a pair of GoPro Hero2's and an Eye-of-Mine modified 3D housing. The purpose of this thread is to document, and get feedback on, my setup.
I'm starting with the aluminum bar used in my Nikonos rig:
The GoPro 3D housing has 3 attach points & they recommend using 2. Not wanting to depend on the adhesive of their flat mounts I purchased a pair of tripod mounts. To attache the tripod mounts to the aluminum bar I drilled, countersunk, and tapped two new holes 2 13/16" appart:
Here's the housing mounted on the bar. The tripod mounts I bought have the tightening screw on the same side. Used directly, one of these screws will interfere with the central attach point as indicated below. I'm going to contact GoPro to see if they have a tripod mount oriented the opposite direction. In the meantime, I scrounged some extensions from the assortment that came with the cameras and housing.
Here's the result with a Nikonos strobe arm attached. I broke my other strobe arm and just bought a replacement on EBAY. I'm hoping to attach some lights to the strobe arms & that will be the subject of future posts.
I have a 1000 lumin DRIS light on order and will tinker with beam spreaders and/or reflectors to expand it's beam angle & order another if successful.
I'm hoping to get the camera underwater Sunday with, or without, a light.
I recently returned to diving and hoped to revive my interest in underwater 3D photography. Unfortunately, while I was away, Nikon stopped supporting their Nikonos V cameras and I haven't been able to get my cameras serviced. So I took the plunge and bought a pair of GoPro Hero2's and an Eye-of-Mine modified 3D housing. The purpose of this thread is to document, and get feedback on, my setup.
I'm starting with the aluminum bar used in my Nikonos rig:
The GoPro 3D housing has 3 attach points & they recommend using 2. Not wanting to depend on the adhesive of their flat mounts I purchased a pair of tripod mounts. To attache the tripod mounts to the aluminum bar I drilled, countersunk, and tapped two new holes 2 13/16" appart:
Here's the housing mounted on the bar. The tripod mounts I bought have the tightening screw on the same side. Used directly, one of these screws will interfere with the central attach point as indicated below. I'm going to contact GoPro to see if they have a tripod mount oriented the opposite direction. In the meantime, I scrounged some extensions from the assortment that came with the cameras and housing.
Here's the result with a Nikonos strobe arm attached. I broke my other strobe arm and just bought a replacement on EBAY. I'm hoping to attach some lights to the strobe arms & that will be the subject of future posts.
I have a 1000 lumin DRIS light on order and will tinker with beam spreaders and/or reflectors to expand it's beam angle & order another if successful.
I'm hoping to get the camera underwater Sunday with, or without, a light.