Just wondering if anyone here has received info or maybe even had some BS filters sent in the second batch, I had ordered one a while back and via email was told on the 7th they were expecting a new batch the next day and then another batch that friday and Id be informed when its shipped. Ive had no news from backscatter since then and those dates were all for last week.
I hope to do a full review of all the decent GoPro dive housings and I see as the SRP and backscatter options as the best 2 options which I really want to see how they match up head to head, along with the oculus one which is about the only other option I think worthy of competing against these 2 yet its not quite at the same level I think.
Im just waiting on the BS filter as I was lucky enough to get some test samples from SRP and the one from occulus came from Thailand with free postage to Australia withing a couple of days of my order. Their service is great but Im not sold on that filter yet and it came pre sent with a little scratch
but this shouldn't effect its use. It looks ok but it uses from what I can tell just a basic generic filter not from URPro or Magic so I dont expect it to perform as well as the other 2.
The few videos posted here show the backscatter does a pretty good job with the magic filter, from what Ive seen in most examples it may not work as well at depths beyond 10m as the URPro filters which I have used for a while but does well in the shallows. This again is just an assumption I want to test to see if this really happens and also as the 3 options use quite different mounting approaches it will be interesting to see which is the easiest to use underwater.
But that's just my assumption and the reason for testing them all side by side at various depths to get a better idea of how they all work in the real world. I will be interested in the results and I think a few others may too and id also like to see anyone else do similar tests to see how they compare to my results in different conditions.