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gamemaster
I want to know before I strap my camera on my mask and go paintballing lol
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Hi gamemaster
I've gotten many paintballs on my GoPro WITH a skeleton housing. If your camera comes with a protector ( Waterproof or such ) the chances are very low to not survive an impact. You should always protect your camera before entering on the field. My buddy brought his personal camera with no housing and it shattered at the end of the day. I've never had problems with my housing.
Kind Regards,
Avex
Hi gamemaster
I've gotten many paintballs on my GoPro WITH a skeleton housing. If your camera comes with a protector ( Waterproof or such ) the chances are very low to not survive an impact. You should always protect your camera before entering on the field. My buddy brought his personal camera with no housing and it shattered at the end of the day. I've never had problems with my housing.
Kind Regards,
Avex
Ideas for filming manatees underwater without necessarily being under water?
Derek
I am a student working on my thesis, Filmmaking has been a part of my curriculum, however I am at the moment predominantly an ecologist, I am looking at conservation of Manatees, this winter I will be making a short film about manatees and conservation, The in planning, I have run into the issue of being unable to completely figure out how to go about filming the manatees, they are underwater, and I may not be able to swim in front of them or around them to get the shots that I want the entire time.
I have a GoPro, and am able to get other cameras like a cannon 60D or even a different kind of camera by renting it.
I am looking for any advice or ideas that people can give me.
Ive been thinking of trying to make it so that I have a live feed from the camera to some device and can move the camera around underwater from a boat, not sure how that would work, just ideas. I appreciate ideas from anyone.
-Thanks
Answer
If you are unwilling or unable to get into the water, then the camera needs to get there... so it needs to be waterproof or in a waterproof housing. Since you want to see what is being recorded, and assuming the camera is in a water proof housing, there is no way to add a cable to the housing and monitor what the camera is seeing without making a hole in the housing and running the cable through that. Basically, you will lose the housing integrity when you do that making the housing no longer waterproof.
You have two options:
1) Use an underwater housing for the "good" camera and add a lo-cost, waterproof security camera to the outside of the housing. Make sure the views of the inside and outside cameras are aligned. Connect the waterproof "outside" camera's cable (with a strong supporting wire cable to your flotation device and a monitor. This may be as simple as a portable DVD player with AV-input and as complex as a TV monitor with an AV-input.
http://www.amazon.com/Underwater-Submersible-Camera-White-LEDs/dp/B00EKKR8EC
Ikelite makes great housings - but they are designed for going pretty deep. Manatees do not go very deep. The Ikelite *will* protect your camera, but at shallow depth, so will Ewa-Marine waterproof gear. The Ikelite will be easier to mount/align the external camera.
2) Use a USB-connected (to your computer) camera mounted to the outside of the underwater camera housing.
http://www.amazon.com/Waterproof-Endoscope-Borescope-Inspection-Camera/dp/B004ZWFOEQ
3) Use a small submersible designed to do what you need. If you think the above were expensive, this will be a whole lot more. The Marine Bilogy or Aquatics department at your (or a nearby) university may have a handle on this stuff.
Clarifications:
The GoPro and Canon are digital cameras. There is no *film* involved. The Canon is designed to capture digital still images and is *not* a camcorder. It will powerdown from overheating after about 15-20 minutes of continuous video capture. If it does not overheat, then it will shut down after 29 minutes of video capture. Read the manual.
In this case, you really don't want to be using that dSLR for video capture. Use a camcorder.
The GoPro might work - assuming the lighting is good. Manatees prefer the dark. The GoPro's smal lens and imaging chip will not allow good video capture.
A "cannon" is a big gun. You camera is made by Canon (1 "n").
If you are unwilling or unable to get into the water, then the camera needs to get there... so it needs to be waterproof or in a waterproof housing. Since you want to see what is being recorded, and assuming the camera is in a water proof housing, there is no way to add a cable to the housing and monitor what the camera is seeing without making a hole in the housing and running the cable through that. Basically, you will lose the housing integrity when you do that making the housing no longer waterproof.
You have two options:
1) Use an underwater housing for the "good" camera and add a lo-cost, waterproof security camera to the outside of the housing. Make sure the views of the inside and outside cameras are aligned. Connect the waterproof "outside" camera's cable (with a strong supporting wire cable to your flotation device and a monitor. This may be as simple as a portable DVD player with AV-input and as complex as a TV monitor with an AV-input.
http://www.amazon.com/Underwater-Submersible-Camera-White-LEDs/dp/B00EKKR8EC
Ikelite makes great housings - but they are designed for going pretty deep. Manatees do not go very deep. The Ikelite *will* protect your camera, but at shallow depth, so will Ewa-Marine waterproof gear. The Ikelite will be easier to mount/align the external camera.
2) Use a USB-connected (to your computer) camera mounted to the outside of the underwater camera housing.
http://www.amazon.com/Waterproof-Endoscope-Borescope-Inspection-Camera/dp/B004ZWFOEQ
3) Use a small submersible designed to do what you need. If you think the above were expensive, this will be a whole lot more. The Marine Bilogy or Aquatics department at your (or a nearby) university may have a handle on this stuff.
Clarifications:
The GoPro and Canon are digital cameras. There is no *film* involved. The Canon is designed to capture digital still images and is *not* a camcorder. It will powerdown from overheating after about 15-20 minutes of continuous video capture. If it does not overheat, then it will shut down after 29 minutes of video capture. Read the manual.
In this case, you really don't want to be using that dSLR for video capture. Use a camcorder.
The GoPro might work - assuming the lighting is good. Manatees prefer the dark. The GoPro's smal lens and imaging chip will not allow good video capture.
A "cannon" is a big gun. You camera is made by Canon (1 "n").
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