bruehlt
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What gives? Last time I bought a housing (Ikelite) it was around $500-600. How can manufactures justify charging $1500 - 2000 for a damn housing?? Seriously!
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You are definitely right on that. I always warn people, the average housing is 2-3 times the cost of the camera! Its not that there is price fixing to keep people out. the volume of housings made and sold is VERY small, especially considering the number of cameras made and sold. That means all the money for design, engineering, materials, and profit (after all businesses need to make money) needs to be made with a small number of sales...thus making each individual housing costly.
So, lets get more people diving and taking pictures...and we can then push the manufacturers to get the prices down!
They used to make those. You still see them on Ebay now and then.I was wondering if Ikelite could make a generic housing for video cameras, just a waterproof box with a mounting bracket inside.
On my HD cam I have a very long recording time capacity, many settings could
be set on automatic. If I could get a plain housing without the adjusting rods I could start the thing up on the surface, go dive and turn it off when back on the boat. Easy to edit good stuff back home.
Having to choose between no zoom feature and fine tuning and no UW video camera makes for a simple decision.
Do you see any problems with this idea?
So, lets get more people diving and taking pictures...and we can then push the manufacturers to get the prices down!
What gives? Last time I bought a housing (Ikelite) it was around $500-600. How can manufactures justify charging $1500 - 2000 for a damn housing?? Seriously!
Its just frustrating. A good example is the Canon EOS Ti1. You can get the body for $600 now (without lens o course). The damn housing and strobe are 3 - 4 TIMES that amount? I'm really wondering of there is some sort of price fixing to keep amateurs out of the DSLR underwater market??