21 hours ago, Akoni said:
I have seen some of the clips posted to YT by Juan M. During my search for a quasi-review of the Gates housing. What do you think of the housing itself? Stability in the water, ease of transportation, controls?
The housing is superb, particulary in conjunction with the Gates Wide Angle port. You get sharp pictures form edge to edge. It is completely neutrally buoyant if you use it by itself. Helps tremendously to achieve stable footage. Onthe right side, the manual white balance button is right next to the record trigger and the zoom trigger. You do your white balance and press shot. Takes just a second. There is a custom button that you can configure yourself.
On the left you have buttons and a control wheel for your IRIS, ISO, Shutter, Focus. The autofocus is great, btw. What you cannot do is going deep into the camera menus to change settings. but I dont really need that. On land, you can use the sony remote to change settigns without openng the housing between dives. The battery gets you through 3 dives easily.
Add a Saga flip adapter with a wet diopter and you are all set from pygmy seahores to whalesharks with one setup. No fiddling with lenses, ports, extension rings, gears and whatever else....
