Sea & Sea 1D/1Ds housing

http://www.seaandsea.co.jp/products/digita...x1ds/index.html

Translation:

DX-1Ds

Price TBD

Available this Fall

Housing for the Canon EOS-1Ds, the best professional digital AF SLR, which won the "Camera Grand Prix 2003." Compact, corrosive-resistant aluminum alloy body. Anonized aluminum (red) color. Functional design allowing control of most 1Ds functions. Equipped with a shutter-coordinated focus light connector and 2 strobe connectors. Name plates (your name engraved) can be added as an option.

-Controllable funtions

Shutter button, exposure mode selection button, AF mode selection button, drive mode selection button, ISO film speed set up button, AEB set up button, main switch, sub-electronic dial, AF frame selection button, AE lock button, assist button, main electronic dial, exposure compensation/manual F stop set up button, FE lock/multi-spot metering button, display panel light up button, protect button, menu buton, selection button, display button, delete button, back display panel, record image selection button, white balance selection button

-Material: corrosive-resistant aluminum alloy (shaved)

-Dimension: 340(width)×220(height)×145(depth)

-Weight:3.5kg

-Weight underwater: (when using a 100mm macro lens) 800g

-Pressure tolerance:60m

-Other: shutter-coordinated focus light connector (standard equippment)/

2 strobe connectors (standard equippment)/name plate (customer name

engraving) (option)

-Product specs and exterior appearance as of July, 2003. Product features may

change without notice.

I didn't realise fuschia is the "in" colour for housings this season

Sorrry, can't help with a translation. At least it looks a bit more form-fitting than the d100 housing!

ohhhhhh crap...a 1d housing. (Anyone got a place for me after the divorce?)

Let us pray that it isn't $5000.

I hope the final housing isn't that horrible color.

Surely that's just primer.

How wonderfully aesthetic it is - Get a Zillion!

It's interesting that they chose to eliminate the side thumb lever. That will make it impossible to use the rear button to focus or focus lock without gripping the side of the housing itself (instead of the handle).

Perhaps it's anodized.

Anyone housing a 1Ds should be required to use manual focus. It's only fair.

They should install little tiny thrusters on it, like Bob Talbot does for his IMAX camera.

Wait a sec, what am I saying, the S2 housing is almost that big...

Cheers

James

Check out all their strobe accessories:

http://www.seaandsea.co.jp/products/access...ry/acce/ys.html

And is this a snoot?

Cheers

James

And is this a snoot?

 

Looks like my wife's hair dryer.

Wouldn't mind betting it a bit more expensive though

An X-ray strobe for underwater dentistry? I don't know what it is but Eric's gotta get a couple of those.

looks like a "light columnator" to me... I dunno.

Cheers

James

I shot the "snoot" for a single dive in Grand Cayman. It takes the strobe output down to either 30 or 15 degrees, depending upon whether or not you use both pieces.

I couldn't find a suitable subject, and haven't packed it since. The idea is to produce a dramatic lighting affect, while eliminating trash foregrounds and backgrounds. I have seen some neat results from it with anemones in SoCal, but everything I found was either too big or too small.

If you go down with the snoot and that pink housing the fish will die laughing. Only thing you would need to add is a pair of pink split fins.

Eric & MikeO,

What would those 3 buttons your thumb should hit control?

Which would be AF-L/AE-L?

My guess is that this will be at least $4,000, and that depends what they do for a viewfinder. I'm personally happy to see a switch back to aluminum for this caliber of camera.

You guys are the only ones I know with a 1ds,

TIA,

Ryan

Buy a pink 1Ds housing, get two snoots free!

I need to get me some barn doors for my strobes. No way I'm letting these Sea & Sea guys out-cool me.

What would those 3 buttons your thumb should hit control?

They are programmable, but roughly: focus on or select center point, AE lock (or AF lock, or both), and focus point select.

I almost always have my camera set to focus using the center point when the left-most button is pressed. The middle point I have set to focus on whatever I've set it to with the right-most button.

Can someone translate this from Japanese?

Here is what we sucked out of the japanese page:

http://www.digideep.com/product.php?pType=...&mID=66&pID=583

By the way Alta Vista's Babelfish can do Japanese -> English, so ?

Let us pray that it isn't $5000.

 

I hope the final housing isn't that horrible color.

In that case you can still decide on Seacam or UK-Germany

Uwe's Housing is said to be out earlier for 3.950 EUR incl. VAT.

Means a net price of 3.318 EUR for you guyz in the States.

We'll keep the list up2date:

http://www.digideep.com/product.php?pType=...a&mID=7&pID=335

By the way, I expect Uwe to be the first providing the housing.

What about Ike? is he tempted to do one?