I’ve had the Salty Surf Housings BASIC housing for a couple of weeks now and I’ve used it as much as possible.
If you haven’t already seen my unboxing you can watch it here.
Here’s my video review:
A couple of notes that I’ve added as annotations to the YouTube video – but I don’t think you’ll see them if you’re watching on mobile or on this site if it’s embedded:
- The Aquatech ATB housings have a C2 button and the a6300 can be setup to use this as the video record button
- The price of the basic housing has dropped to $1099 AUS
And here’s everything I mentioned in the review, some of them are accessories that you might want to pick up to compliment your Salty Surf Housings BASIC a6000 housing.
- $24 US – Sony RMTDSLR2 Wireless Remote for Alpha & NEX, (Black) – infra red remote control by Sony, to start/stop video record when it’s in the housing
- $8.99 US – JW RM-DSLR2 Wireless Remote Control For Sony A6000 – third party IR remote that has the same controls as the Sony original, I’ve ordered one for more testing
- $8.34 US – JJC RM-S1 Wireless Remote Control For Sony A6000 – minimal lightweight IR remote with just shutter release and video start/stop, might be easier to handle in the water
- Aquatech ATB A6000 and ATB A6300 housings
- OpenMemories Tweak app – remove the 29 minute time restriction and language restrictions using this app
- PMCADemo – sample apps which include remapping button functions – could be a starting point for using the custom button to start video recording
- Flash Surf Photography With The Sony a6000 – Part 1
- $180 US – KNEKT KTP18 pole trigger for a GoPro
If you’ve used one of the more advanced Salty Surf Housing’s let me know in the comments how it’s going or send me an email at ben@learningsurfphotography.com.
I’m going to be doing some more shooting with mine over the weekend and I’ve even splashed out on a new (still budget friendly) flash setup which I’m going to try out.
As always if you’ve got any questions send me an email or add a comment.
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Hey there Ben, I would like to ask, could I fit my Samyang 14 mm F 2.8 in that housing with the dome? Thank you!
HI Carlos,
I’m not familiar with the Samyang 14mm f2.8, but I can see two versions on line, one is an older one for Canon, Nikon and Sony a mount which I guess you might be using with an adapter on a Sony a6000, and one is brand new e-mount version.
I’m assuming you’ve got the new one. I don’t think it will fit in the smallest 4″ dome port that I’ve used, it’s a pretty close fot for the Samyang 8mm fisheye and that’s quite a bit smaller than the 14mm.
I do think it would fit in one of the bigger dome ports that Salty offer though. I would get in touch with Salty themselves to confirm, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it fit in the 6″ dome (they do a bigger dome again if it doesn’t, but I think the 6″ would be fine).