I’m currently in a shoot in South Africa and for the first three weeks, no issues. Recently though, I have been getting condensation in the inside of my glass dome port and it’s rendering footage unusable.

Any tips to avoid this? Nothing has changed, the camera and housing are assembled in the same room and sand conditions. The only slight change is a -1 degree temp change in the water.

I have a small silica gel sachet at the back of the housing.

Set up is:

Red Komodo X for n a nauticam housing

Zen 230mm glass dome

Canon 24-105

Ext 60 and 30 attached together.

Anything I can do to stop this as it’s never happened before. Air temp is 20-25 degrees, water temp 22-23.5 degrees

See if you can purge the housing before closing with dry compressed air from a tank (gently). Or one of those cans of nitrogen for blowing dust from equipment and electronics. And then close up and pull the vacuum.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Nemrod

• Assemble and seal housing in an air conditioned room. This reduces humidity in the housing.

• You can use a scuba tank & drying nozzle to spray extra dry air in the housing as you seal it.

• Microwave your silica packets as they are probably saturated. A few rounds of 5 minutes at 50% power. Store in a Ziploc bag to keep the extras dry.

Edited 20 minutes ago20 min by Dave_Hicks