Sea & Sea DX-5D or Hugyfot Canon 5D Housing ?

System A or B ?

I am interested to upgrade my self and iam stick with this two systems, what should i prefer ?

a. Sea & Sea DX-5D Housing

Sea & Sea TTL Controller for Canon

Port for Canon EF 100 + extension ring

Sea & Sea YS-110

Hartenberger Nano focus light

Ultra Light Arms

or

b. Hugyfot Canon 5D Housing + Hugyfot Viewfinder

Sea & Sea TTL Controller for Canon

Port for Canon EF 100 + extension ring

Sea & Sea YS-110

Hartenberger Nano focus light

UltraLight Arms

Thanks for your help :-)

Hi Nicholas,

If you are really keen on using the S&S e-TTL convertor,

then I would firmly suggest the S&S housing. There seems

to have been a couple of issues with the S&S convertors

and 'other' housings...

I love the 'NANO' focus light....true class!

IMHO,

Bruce

this was my worry from the beginning Bruce, how compatible is the s&s convertors with other housings... ?! (Hugyfot)

System A or B ?

 

I am interested to upgrade my self and iam stick with this two systems, what should i prefer ?

 

a. Sea & Sea DX-5D Housing

Sea & Sea TTL Controller for Canon

Port for Canon EF 100 + extension ring

Sea & Sea YS-110

Hartenberger Nano focus light

Ultra Light Arms

 

or

 

b. Hugyfot Canon 5D Housing + Hugyfot Viewfinder

Sea & Sea TTL Controller for Canon

Port for Canon EF 100 + extension ring

Sea & Sea YS-110

Hartenberger Nano focus light

UltraLight Arms

 

Thanks for your help :-)

Don't know for the specific model, but as a general I think Hugyfot and Sea& Sea aluminium housings are pretty similar in price (in Europe) and quality. So then it's down to ergonomics - what suits your personal taste best. But if you have decided on Sea&Sea strobes, it makes sense to also go with a Sea&Sea housing. An advantage of the Hugyfot could be that you easily can use domes and ports of different makes - don't think it's as straight forward with Sea&Sea. I would also check the availability of service and repair. Not that it needs to be next door, but it should be fairly easy to send the housing on short notice and get it back in a reasonable time, and have access to the people working on your housing. I can personally vouch for Hugyfot. They are quick and accesible via mail. Don't know how it works with Sea&Sea in Greece.

cheers

Hi Nicholas,

As you probably know I have setup #1 - though with the viewfinder from setup #2 - so I'd say you're looking at a good pair of systems there.

Things worth noting:

Sea&Sea TTL converter for Canon uses a non-standard, 6-pin Nikonos type bulkhead socket. I have yet to find a way of mounting that on a non-Sea&Sea housing. The Nikon guys get the easy way out, as the S&S TTL converter for Nikon uses the standard 5-pin socket.

The Hugy can be fitted with S-6 socket (for SeaCam flashguns IIRC), but you would need to get a S&S TTL converter adapted to fit in an S-6 socket to use that.

Hugy also now do their own built-in TTL controller for the 5D housing, but that is by it's nature less easy to control underwater than the S&S version.

The Sea&Sea latching mechanism is much quicker to operate than the Hex-key bolt system on the Hugys - we each have a preference.

Hugy can take S&S ports, but not vice versa. Not a big deal, as S&S has some fine ports available, plus plenty of zoom/focus gears. Either way, you may be wanting a 3rd party gear to operate the 100mm USM macro from the body knob. I'll be posting my solution to this one shortly.

The Hugy doesn't provide a thumb paddle for the * button, which is a feature I depend upon with the DX-5D.

Hope that some use,

Martyn

Either way, you may be wanting a 3rd party gear to operate the 100mm USM macro from the body knob

I know that Hugyfot developed a focus gear for the Canon 100 mm macro because the design of my Nikon 105 VR focusgear is based on the Canon 100 mm focusgear.

Furthermore, i think both the Sea and Sea and Hugyfot are nice housings. I'm a Hugyfotfan and it makes me feel special... ... SO, if you buy a Hugyfot as well, it makes me less special, so i'd suggest that you buy a Sea and Sea.... ...

cheers, Udo

Oh Udo,

I'm sorry for making your 45 degree viewfinder less special.

Martyn

Only the viewfinder.... i can live with that... It wasn't originally hugyfot anyway...

Cheers, udo

Oh Udo,

 

I'm sorry for making your 45 degree viewfinder less special.

 

Martyn