black or white skirt?

[Charlie99]

I've tried both and prefer the clear skirt for my underwater tourist look-at-the-pretty-fish diving. Even though the skirt has yellowed and is a bit grungy, many times I first notice turtles, sharks, or large pelagics with my peripheral vision through the skirt. Also helps me notice when my buddy-du-jour starts to wander off.

The drawback is having to put my hand over the mask skirt to block light so that I can better see into dark nooks and crannies on bright day.

 

[CALI68]

Get a a pair of Cressi Big Eyes with a black skirt and have the best of both worlds: Huge field of vision and no ugly yellow skirt. It looks cool too especially if you get black on black...very ominous!

 

[amport]

Oh how I loved the view with my Cresi big eyes....
But alas it did not fit my face an leaked too much.
I was forsed to get something that did not leak.
You are lucky it fits your face.

 

[diversteve]

I was wondering if it is different to see through a mask that have a black skirt or a transparent skirt?

is it different?

Black for photography/video as it blocks some of the ambient light coming in. Having said that - and being a videographer - I'm currently diving with a 3 window clear silicone mask. I have a perception of greater peripheral vision using it. My last mask (which I dove over 10 years) had a black skirt.

I think the most important thing is get what you're comfortable with that doesn't leak.

 

[nwdiver2]

Seeing through the view finder on a housed SLR or dSLR is very difficult unless you use a black mask. The light coming in from the side may cause the viewfinder to be difficult to see through. Same sort of thing as using a rubber eye cup to cover your eye above water.