Flying Nauticam YS-01 Strobe

[alta5]

How is everyone flying with their Nauticam RX100 case and YS-01 Strobe?
-Leave camera case and strobe closed with orings attached?
-Leave camera case and strobe closed without orings?
-Leave camera case and strobe open without orings?

 

[muzikbiz22]

Housing and strobe battery compartment(s) should stay open. Below taken from Reef Photo's website, Care and Feeding of your New Housing;

• When flying with your rig, it is important that the housing is not sealed. Either remove the o-rings, the port, or leave the back of the housing open. Flying from altitude to sea level with a sealed housing makes for a nasty vacuum lock on the housing.
• Never travel with your camera in the housing.
  At first blush, this seems a logical way to save space, but the impacts that your luggage receives can cause damage to the housing controls, the camera or both. If you need space that badly, stuff your underwear inside the housing, but not your camera.

 

[bvanant]

I know what Ryan says, but in my case at least I have more than 20 trips done with my Canon 7D in the housing, in a backpack and in the overhead. I wouldn't put it that way in checked luggage but for travel on my back it has worked so far. I am not sure that I understand the physics of getting a vacuum lock on my housing if I sealed it up tight and flew with it and it really was sealed. Why would I get a lower P in the housing unless it leaked. Seems to me that sealing it up at sea level would and then going to 6000 ft (about average for most planes) then back to sea level is kind of like driving to Denver and back down.
In any case, for my EM-1 I don't put it in the housing (foolish consistency and all that) but for the Canon that is the way that it travels.
Bill

 

[KeithG]

I leave everything slightly open with oring in place. No need to remove it. Camera stays in housing. No need to remove it as it is mounted securely in place. Everything is in a carryon, padded lowepro camera bag.

 

[muzikbiz22]

Hmm, interesting. I get what Bill (bvanant) is saying, however, I am one that has always removed camera (Canon DSLR) from housing (Aquatica). Everything goes "carry on", housing & strobes left "open", and the camera body protected by the finest packing material known to man, Socks n Undies !! I've always had good luck with this method, works for me

 

[NautilusCairns]

I carry my camera, an Olympus EM-5 separately in a small camera bag. That way I have it handy for any land/air based shots from the plane or traveling from or at the airport. It also means one less thing in my carry-on backpack which sometimes gets weighed. In the backpack I have my housing, ports and strobes closed with the O-rings removed. I have used this system for a number of years.

 

[KeithG]

the finest packing material known to man, Socks n Undies

dirty or clean?

 

[muzikbiz22]

dirty or clean?

Technically, both Clean going to the vacation destination, and, well, you get the rest