Amphibico Discovery G3

Bump..

Swan River Night Dive

23 degrees C - in a dry suit - in the middle of a heat wave. ( average feb temp last 40 years is 31.8C )

You are precious.

Hi wagsy,

nice review but I would not buy any HID lights anymore.

With most models burntime is just to short, constant on/of switching ist forbidden and the bulbs cost a fortune.

It seems that burntime isnt an issue for G3s and thats very fine!

IMHO halogen and HID are dead. LED will take over.

As soon as I will get new lights I will head for the L&M Sunray system. Depending on my budget I will choose

the 1000 or 2000 model. Some weeks ago I did some testdives and those lights are so bright, wide and even

it is unbelieveable! 90 degree wideangle is no problem at all.

So...you are impressed with 1900 lumens of light (thats what the L&Ms are)!

Perhaps you haven't seen what 5500 lumens of 90 degree lighting does to your average underwater scene!!

As far as the vulnerability of the latest generation HID bulbs and electronics...what nonsense. As an engineer in the mining industry I can assure you that there HID lighting gets a lot tougher use than we underwater photographers will ever put it through. And what about the aerospace industry...e.g. jetfighter landing lights.

Switching 20 or 30 times a dive is no problem with the new HID designs. Bulbs are only expensive because most UW lighting manufacturers artificially inflate the price by 10 or 15 times their cost!!

Yes, LEDs are great...my husband and I are using two 2000 lumen 90 degree UW video lights for close-up work. But they look like glow worms compared to our 55 watt HIDs!!

Ladygodiver,

about which manufacturer/product are you talking?

I've been using the LMI 2000 LED's a lot recently, they are fantstic, however for lighting reef's in the day you're gonna need something a lot, lot bigger - which would be out of the budget and weight restrictions for the average vidiot.

I will use the LED's for probably 99% of my dives in the next few years, but i'd still be interested in a monster HID / HMI for reef work. Fortunately i have the staff to hold it for me in the water

Hey Simon, with the LED 2000,s how far does the light on a night dive penetrate and have they any hot spots when up close on full wide to a subject?

We need to all get together and have a light shoot out comparing all the lights.