LMI Mako Shooting SD.. Wondering What's Next?

[diversteve]

Is it mechanical? Or does it work off the camera battery?

It's a full electronic housing. The camera battery powers the controls. The back monitor has its own battery pack mounted to the inside of the door.

I was looking at the Sony HDR-CX550V and curious about the flash memory. The memory is not removable for long term storage Can the video be transferred to the SD or Memory Stick? If I have to capture it off to protect it while on a trip, is that a 1:1 capture?

Sony calls it Direct Copy:

Store and Share Your Memories

Now there's an easy way to transfer and store videos directly from your camcorder to an external hard disk drive (sold separately), without a computer. You can even use handy playback features of this camcorder to access the videos stored on your external drive and share your memories on a compatible HDTV or monitor.

There's a short video about it. It'll be wayyy faster than 1:1...

 

[diversteve]

have you ever seen any video shot with a canon mkii?

[vimeo]12347453[/vimeo]

 

[ScubaVideo]

Looks round - might be that 15mm fish eye he was using. That is a big advantage too being able to use different lenses. I'm guessing a lot of dollars for different ports too. Is the rolling shutter issue as one of the commenter's mentioned on Vimeo an issue with just the 5D MKII or all DSLR's? I've seen quite a lot of dry video from them and never noticed this.

 

[diversteve]

No idea, I only follow video cameras/housings. Do you read Wetpixel? They have an entire forum there dedicated to SLR's. Wetpixel :: Underwater Photography Forums -> Digital SLRs/Housings

There's also several current threads in the Video Gear and Technique forum there.