These cheap and small consumer cameras can be used professionally on land for HD
They capture HDV in 1080 to a regular miniDV tape which FCP will ingest automatically splitting footage into clips.
Underwater, these cameras will do the job, but setting white balance while under water is not an option (in the Equinox HD6 housing ) however:
1/ Point it at something green/blue and set white balance, (tell the camera that 'this' is white ) before you put it in the housing. (not ideal, but better than blue footage)
2/ You can set the camera to 'shady' and 'auto white balance'
3/ Use the red filter that comes with the housing, in addition to the above fixes
4/ Get good at color correction in your editing program
With the HV30 and HV40: The Equinox housing is very cheap, it's great in the water, neutral, sturdy and reliable.
But, it's big and heavy because of the one-size fits all formula.
I've had it underwater for about 40 dives, and no problems at all except for color issues at the beginning.
Anyone got anything else to add?
Peter Bucknell
They capture HDV in 1080 to a regular miniDV tape which FCP will ingest automatically splitting footage into clips.
Underwater, these cameras will do the job, but setting white balance while under water is not an option (in the Equinox HD6 housing ) however:
1/ Point it at something green/blue and set white balance, (tell the camera that 'this' is white ) before you put it in the housing. (not ideal, but better than blue footage)
2/ You can set the camera to 'shady' and 'auto white balance'
3/ Use the red filter that comes with the housing, in addition to the above fixes
4/ Get good at color correction in your editing program
With the HV30 and HV40: The Equinox housing is very cheap, it's great in the water, neutral, sturdy and reliable.
But, it's big and heavy because of the one-size fits all formula.
I've had it underwater for about 40 dives, and no problems at all except for color issues at the beginning.
Anyone got anything else to add?
Peter Bucknell
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