Hi all,
Our last camera was an analog Sea & Sea Motormarine II with a pretty sweet strobe setup (yes, showing my age here
), that served us just fine, until it flooded during a boat dive in Egypt. This was about 15 years ago. We later bought a cheap Gopro clone in an underwater housing, but it never really did it for us. Now we are picking up diving again and we started looking at the digital options. Housing for our DSLR (Canon 80D) is not cheap and including some lighting it is a substantial amount of money, that could also be spent at a dedicated digital solution. Our goal is mainly photography, including macro, a video option would be nice but not necessary.
Now I did some research and came across the Sealife Micro 3.0. It seems like a pretty decent camera, but in terms of lighting it only supports video lighting, so no strobe option. I feel dat might be an issue, but having no experience with that kind of setup I have a few questions:
- Does the lack of strobe options limit the use of the camera underwater or is that still a good option?
- Would you recommend the Sealife Micro 3.0 or are there any other options I should investigate (I've seen some nice Olympus options as well)?
Budget is around 1000 euro.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Ronaldf
Our last camera was an analog Sea & Sea Motormarine II with a pretty sweet strobe setup (yes, showing my age here
), that served us just fine, until it flooded during a boat dive in Egypt. This was about 15 years ago. We later bought a cheap Gopro clone in an underwater housing, but it never really did it for us. Now we are picking up diving again and we started looking at the digital options. Housing for our DSLR (Canon 80D) is not cheap and including some lighting it is a substantial amount of money, that could also be spent at a dedicated digital solution. Our goal is mainly photography, including macro, a video option would be nice but not necessary.Now I did some research and came across the Sealife Micro 3.0. It seems like a pretty decent camera, but in terms of lighting it only supports video lighting, so no strobe option. I feel dat might be an issue, but having no experience with that kind of setup I have a few questions:
- Does the lack of strobe options limit the use of the camera underwater or is that still a good option?
- Would you recommend the Sealife Micro 3.0 or are there any other options I should investigate (I've seen some nice Olympus options as well)?
Budget is around 1000 euro.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Ronaldf
