Gopro hero 3 black back scatter red filter review

[toozler]

having lights and filter would be counterproductive. You use either one or the other. You can have both on your setup but use them separately.

I would disagree, I have used both together (a red filter - not necessarily this one - and a light) without issues.

The footage is nice, much better than the other flat-thick-acrylic filters - here is where a product developed by people with UW videography experience makes a difference.

 

[avigulf]

Agree with toozler. Have used Hero2 with magenta/GR filter and Sola LED lights for some dives and it works fine. At least here up in the north we often need artificial lights to see what to film

 

[Interceptor121]

Generally you don't use lights and filter together however if you have beams that cover the whole field of view and lights of the right temperature (5500K-7000K) it is actually not an issue with a camera with auto white balance
The issue arises when your lights coverage is smaller than the field of view of the lens and the camera does not have the same color temperature over the frame so you end up with a torch effect where part of the frame is burnt out
There was an article on UWP about using lights and gopro however the guy who did it had twin gates video lights for a total of 2x6000 lumens that in effect is like shooting in daylight so not exactly a reference point for the average gopro user
On the other side if you have a light good only for close up (less than 500 lumens) in daylight the light will make no difference at all the only shots ruined would be close up in dark areas, for the rest the low power will be completely dispersed in the water
Since LED lights there is not such an issue combining filters and light as when there were tungsten or HID lights

Looking at avigulf video here

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If you look at second 0;47 you can clearly see one of the lights having a burnout on the center right, obviously in those conditions at least there is something to see but if you had to be a perfectionist you would say that with two identical sola 1200 that hot spot and difference in colour won't be there. The video overall is still very good and better than darkness!