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Underwater Shooting with IQ180/DF

dougpeterson

Workshop Member
http://www.captureintegration.com/2011/01/27/nauticam-underwater-enclosure/

We tested one last year in Mexico. You'd have to have an underwater case that was built like a tank to trust an IQ in it. This one is.

The build-quality and strength of the moving parts and gaskets are what you'd expect out of a machine of war, not a camera housing. I'm not exaggerating.

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GrahamWelland

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Well, I can't say that it was a concerted search, or any search actually ... just a general observation. :rolleyes:
 

Thierry

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Derek,

I don't think you looked precisely enough, there is a much earlier/older project taken underwater with MFDB, in 2002 and for Sinar's yearly calendar, here:

Sinar Calendar 2033 - Underwater

It was taken in Australia, Gold Coast (Queensland, with a Sinarback 44 (Kodak 16 MPx Square) and a special built housing.

Best regards
Thierry

I don't think you looked very hard; a simple search for "underwater" in this forum revealed this from 2008:

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23039

The P1 article looks interesting, thanks for posting. I love reading about people who are willing to turn their camera into a boat anchor, literally in this case.

Kind regards,
Derek
 

jecxz

Active member
Thierry, I don't speak or read German. Do you have a link to an English version?

Glad you included it! Be well.

Kind regards,
Derek Jecxz
www.jecxz.com


I don't think you looked precisely enough, there is a much earlier/older project taken underwater with MFDB, in 2002 and for Sinar's yearly calendar, here:
 

Shashin

Well-known member
Good thing underwater housings are so cheap, otherwise this could be a real expensive hobby...
 

dougpeterson

Workshop Member
Derek,

I don't think you looked precisely enough, there is a much earlier/older project taken underwater with MFDB, in 2002 and for Sinar's yearly calendar, here:
This is fun! There was an underwater Hassy 500 + Lightphase shoot that predates that one. They had to use gaskets with battery powered firewire repeaters to "hop" the cable from the camera to a repeater to the computer.

To be fair though I've heard that shoot was a bear.

It's a big world, my bet is even that was not the first digital underwater shoot.

Doug Peterson (e-mail Me)
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