spiderwebb1
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Has anyone mounted an external video monitor on an Ikelite video housing? If you have what kind and who did it?
External Video Monitor for Ike Housing
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Never heard of anyone putting an external monitor on an Ikelite.
If you do find a way, try to make it so the monitor can tilt and swivel.
An external monitor that tilts and swivels really helps with your framing and you will be able to get shots that would be impossible without it. It really helped improve my shooting.
If you do find a way, try to make it so the monitor can tilt and swivel.
An external monitor that tilts and swivels really helps with your framing and you will be able to get shots that would be impossible without it. It really helped improve my shooting.
robint
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I am not sure how you could do this. An external monitor needs to plug into the camcorder, correct? There is no way to do this with any Ikelite housing that I know of.
which camcorder and housing are you looking at/own?
robin
Canon HG-21 camcorder, Ikelite housing
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spiderwebb1
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It's a Sony HD with the Ike housing. The mirror reflection is OK until I am in sunlight. Tim Burton @ Cocoview made me a sun shade when I took a course from him a couple of years ago and it helps, but it still is very hard to see with a lot of sunlight when at shallow depths. I could make some kind of 4 sided box to go around it that might do the trick?
found this article which may help. (from 2008 but may still be around) The link does not work but there is a picture of an external monitor "click to view attachment" in the original wetpixel thread
Wetpixel :: Underwater Photography Forums > External monitors for Ikelite housings
you can see the monitor here with german text
http://www.unterwasserkamera.at/sho...-dive-ikelite-lcd-rueckwand-3-6--hv20-30.html
Wetpixel :: Underwater Photography Forums > External monitors for Ikelite housings
you can see the monitor here with german text
http://www.unterwasserkamera.at/sho...-dive-ikelite-lcd-rueckwand-3-6--hv20-30.html
robint
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I would definitely try that before buying a monitor. My old Ikelite housing had the same issue, mirror on outside, and it definitely does cause viewing issues shallow due to sunlight.... but my new HD Canon with Ikelite has the screen open inside the housing and though it has a black box around it, I still have problems viewing the screen when there is too much light/shallow depths. I think that is going to be true of all camcorder housings, cameras, etc, not just Ikelite, with or without a monitor!
just my 2 cents.
robin
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spiderwebb1
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Thanks for all the information it has been helpful. Jeja26 the monitor back looks awsome but I am afraid I can not find any more info right now until I get back to the US and research it further.
Not sure about an external monitor, but a 3.5 inch monitor ($40) fits inside the video housings for a Sony TRV 8mm tape, old school housing ($50). The 8mm camcorder will be replaced with a Full HD unit. There's even space left over for the video light batteries, all in one nice package. It balances out pretty well, the batteries take the place of the weights.
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