testpilot58d
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Hello all.
After reading a ton of reviews and watching hours of youtube videos, I finally made the decision between gopro/contour HD/and Flip. While I already have a 3rd Gen Flip Ultra HD, I chose to go with the Contour HD for underwater work, simply because of the design, wide angle lens, and quality of video.
Which now puts me in a bind for a housing. 2 choices. Really? No one else makes a housing for this incredible camera? I ponied up $39.95 for the Contour underwater housing for an upcoming trip reef diving in the keys. However, I cannot a) afford or b) justify spending more money on a piece of polycarbonate shaped like my camera with an o-ring that costs more than the camera itself with the GMS concepts H2OV offering.
(GMS, sir, I realize you may be reading this thread and probably WILL be reading this thread)...you have the market cornered, and you know it, and can afford to charge what you want. I submit to you this though...If you charged half of what you are asking you would more than double your quantity of sales. Lots of divers out here KNOW the Contour HD is a better cam, yet cannot justify the excessive extra cost for such a simple housing.
Perhaps even a housing rated to 130' at a lesser cost to consumers. I have no need to dive to 400', and as such have no need for a housing that supports that.
Healthy competition drives prices down. Is there ANYONE out there with access to the kind of tooling/injection molding/whatever processes necessary to make a polycarb or acrylic housing for the contour HD good to 130'?
If anyone else feels the same, please speak up. Perhaps someone will listen.
Thank you.
After reading a ton of reviews and watching hours of youtube videos, I finally made the decision between gopro/contour HD/and Flip. While I already have a 3rd Gen Flip Ultra HD, I chose to go with the Contour HD for underwater work, simply because of the design, wide angle lens, and quality of video.
Which now puts me in a bind for a housing. 2 choices. Really? No one else makes a housing for this incredible camera? I ponied up $39.95 for the Contour underwater housing for an upcoming trip reef diving in the keys. However, I cannot a) afford or b) justify spending more money on a piece of polycarbonate shaped like my camera with an o-ring that costs more than the camera itself with the GMS concepts H2OV offering.
(GMS, sir, I realize you may be reading this thread and probably WILL be reading this thread)...you have the market cornered, and you know it, and can afford to charge what you want. I submit to you this though...If you charged half of what you are asking you would more than double your quantity of sales. Lots of divers out here KNOW the Contour HD is a better cam, yet cannot justify the excessive extra cost for such a simple housing.
Perhaps even a housing rated to 130' at a lesser cost to consumers. I have no need to dive to 400', and as such have no need for a housing that supports that.
Healthy competition drives prices down. Is there ANYONE out there with access to the kind of tooling/injection molding/whatever processes necessary to make a polycarb or acrylic housing for the contour HD good to 130'?
If anyone else feels the same, please speak up. Perhaps someone will listen.
Thank you.
