I recently discovered the Telesin 6″ GoPro dome port, another option for people wanting to shoot over/under, 50/50 or split shots with their GoPro camera. Telesin 6″ GoPro Dome Port: $89 on Amazon The Telesin GoPro Dome Port is available on Amazon for $89 It’s cheaper than the KNEKT KSD6 GoPro dome port which I […]
There are more and more GoPro dome products popping up, you will have read about the budget friendly SWG dome on Kickstarter, and you might have seen my videos on the SPL GoPro Dome and the KNEKT KSD6 GoPro Dome. I get a lot of visitors to the site from Brazil, so I thought they […]
Here’s some exciting GoPro Dome news for you, I’ve had a lot of questions about the best value way to get a GoPro Dome port and now Jakob Wittmann, with the help of Noel Galvez and Christian Salgado, designers on shapeways.com, presents a 3D printed back plate for various sizes of dome.. The system […]
I stumbled upon this video by Erick Mendonça in the list of related videos when answering a comment on my own video about the SPL GoPro Dome housing and pistol grip, it’s in Portuguese (but even I understood the apology for poor audio at the start) and it’s 17.5 minutes long, so you might want […]
Ian Matsko e-mailed and asked me for some advice on where to get a dome for a DIY GoPro Dome port, I let Ian know that if you’re in the USA you can get good quality acrylic domes from marine compass suppliers. I also said that I’d probably recommend hanging on and waiting for a […]
The KNEKT Dome port is here, you can now purchase the KSD6 dome port for $299 from Amazon: amazon.com/KNEKT-Six-Inch-GoPro-Hero3-Hero4 It connects to your GoPro housing and offers control over all the buttons, so you can use it with most other accessories including the KNEKT pistol grip style triggers that I really rate highly for surf […]
UPDATE: the KSD6 dome port is available via Amazon, click here for the link. As mentioned in my video on the GoPro pistol grip triggers that are available KNEKT have been working on a dome port for your GoPro camera. This is our most ambitious undertaking yet! The KNEKT KDS6 Dome is unlike anything on […]
You might have seen my post about the options you have for GoPro pistol grip triggers, this style of trigger makes it much easier to shoot photos in the surf by offering a more intuitive pistol style shutter release. I’ve assembled the top four options for anyone shooting surf photo’s with a GoPro and I’ve […]
UPDATE: you can now watch my review video where I compare the SPL Dome Port and housing system with the KNEKT GPLT trigger system. There’s a bit of a movement happening with GoPro surf photographers wanting to shoot over/under style photo’s,you can read all about how to take this kind of photo, and why the […]
Here’s an interesting housing that caught my eye on eBay recently, it’s for a Rolleiflex twin lens reflex camera, a classic professional medium format design: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131238627812?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 You can pick up a Rolleiflex camera for about £400 second hand, so combined with this housing it’s not actually a super expensive set-up and you’re all set for […]
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