Indigo Scuba Africa
Contributor
I have spent the last 11 months using a Sea&Sea HD1200 compact digital camera to make videos of my husband's scuba diving students and customers. These videos I have uploaded onto youtube for them and burnt them to disk.
The camera has given me endless problems (buttons not working, frames being skipped etc) and it has now gone back to Sea&Sea. I don't hold out much hope of getting a replacement or having it fixed.
As I urgently need a replacement, decided to go for a Video camera that can shoot 1920 x 1080 hd video that can also take acceptable still photos that the students can show off to their friends on the internet (Facebook and our website).
We dive in murky green water ranging in viz from 4 - 10 metres max. Lots of particles in the water. Also pool sessions. Once a year we go to the Red Sea or Mozambique.
Please can someone make a recommendation of what video camera I should be looking at and housing? I am overwhelmed by the selection out there and based on the comments I have read over the past week on the internet, have an idea that the Canon HF200 with the Ikelite housing would be best for me.
Is the Canon HF200 right for "now" or should I be looking at HF20 or HFS20 (or 21s) and what is the difference? I am totally clueless.
And as I do a lot of shore entries, should I look at the Ikelite housing? I am concerned about what I have read on vignetting and the screen not opening up enough for me to see what I am shooting.
Am I thinking along the right track or should I consider some other camera? This is quite urgent now as we have a lot of summer customers who are dying to see themselves on film!
Hope you can help me please
!!!
Thank you!
The camera has given me endless problems (buttons not working, frames being skipped etc) and it has now gone back to Sea&Sea. I don't hold out much hope of getting a replacement or having it fixed.
As I urgently need a replacement, decided to go for a Video camera that can shoot 1920 x 1080 hd video that can also take acceptable still photos that the students can show off to their friends on the internet (Facebook and our website).
We dive in murky green water ranging in viz from 4 - 10 metres max. Lots of particles in the water. Also pool sessions. Once a year we go to the Red Sea or Mozambique.
Please can someone make a recommendation of what video camera I should be looking at and housing? I am overwhelmed by the selection out there and based on the comments I have read over the past week on the internet, have an idea that the Canon HF200 with the Ikelite housing would be best for me.
Is the Canon HF200 right for "now" or should I be looking at HF20 or HFS20 (or 21s) and what is the difference? I am totally clueless.
And as I do a lot of shore entries, should I look at the Ikelite housing? I am concerned about what I have read on vignetting and the screen not opening up enough for me to see what I am shooting.
Am I thinking along the right track or should I consider some other camera? This is quite urgent now as we have a lot of summer customers who are dying to see themselves on film!
Hope you can help me please
!!!
Thank you!