A couple of new surf water housings have been announced for the Sony A7 series of cameras. Details aren’t too available but here’s some Instagram post to keep you Sony shooters up to date. Aquatech Sony A7 housing The image was shot by Stan Moniz and you should check out his website for some awesome […]
I love Meikon, the Chinese housing manufacturer who make inexpensive dive style housings for a huge variety of cameras, including the Sony a6000. So I was very happy when Andrew Grose tipped me off that they had announced a new housing for the a6000, I hadn’t noticed whilst I was away on holiday and now […]
It seems like Instagram is the place to drop news of your new product releases these days, I always get the latest from Knekt that way, and a few hours ago Aquatech have posted a teaser for some forthcoming news. Testing some new cameras for some new releases this week. The Sport Housing family is […]
It can be hard to track down a good value second hand water housing for surf, and one place I’ve managed to buy a couple of my housings has been eBay, I go into detail about the what to look for and where to find them in my post buying a second hand water housing. […]
Here’s a nice video from Aquatech featuring Phil Gallagher talking you through how to shoot with a wet port and a dry port. The wet port technique is pretty standard and the same one I use, although I keep up the spit routine much more frequently than every 5 minutes as suggested in the video, […]
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 […]
I haven’t done a post like this in a while, where I explain a mistake or issue I had on a recent shoot that you can learn from, I have definitely still been making mistakes though so I’ll try and dig up the painful memories and do a few more of these soon. A couple […]
You might have read my post on the LP port sale from Aquatech where I lamented the super high international shipping costs of the sale items, specifically the LP-TZ 4 Lens Port for the Canon 70-200mm f4 lens that I love so much. Well now they are offering flat rate shipping internationally based on the […]
After their recent website re-launch Aquatech are rolling out the new style Delphin and Elite housings, which use their new, larger diameter port system, it’s been changed to allow the new on housing focus control system to be used on all the lenses apparently. One by product of this change is that there’s a bunch […]
I saw a post on the surf images blog about an advert SPL had in the latest Surfing magazine, unfortunately I couldn’t find a copy in the local newsagent when I checked last week so all there is to go on is the image in the post. The advert shows the Canon Rebel Splash housing: […]
This isn’t really a budget option, with the professional Canon 1DX body starting at about £5,000 and the 1DC body about £10,000, they’re not in hobbyist territory. But what interests me is one of the new features on this housing, a zoom control built into the housing rather than the lens port. Information is typically […]
I will be going in to much more detail, including producing a video, in some future posts, but here’s a taster of the flash set-up I’ve botched together this weekend. Using some cheap radio triggers, a couple of butchered cables and a modestly priced flash gun I am now able to trigger a flash in […]
There’s already a post on the current gear I have for shooting photo’s (and video) in the water, what you didn’t see was the long list of housings I have had in the past. Both DIY home builds and off the shelf products feature in my history of housings, I’ve laid them all out below […]
I’m just starting out with this really, although I’ve been shooting video in the water for years, the stills side of things is relatively new to me, what I know now has been gleaned from the few dozen sessions I’ve had with my Aquatech housing and information that I’ve picked up on line and first […]
My name is Ben Pascoe, I have been surfing for around 20 years and for about 15 years I have been documenting my hobby with a variety of cameras and camcorders, most recently I have been using GoPro cameras and Canon DSLR’s. I’ve recently got myself a decent water housing and upgraded my DSLR so […]
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