Underwater stills on Hero 3+ ?
- Thread starter Bordiver
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
EL Pistoffo
Contributor
Sorry, try the video again here: Scuba Diving the Central Visayas - YouTube
Here's the link to the Still shots again, jsut in case: Flickr: trevalo0325's Photostream
Yes, all the shots on flickr were from the "auto 5 sec capture" function (except for that last shot of Oia, not sure how that squeezed in there). And bear in mind, for every "keeper", there were tonnes of blurry and useless shots.
I was very impressed with Gopro. I was originally considering RX100 but before making the commitment, decided to try with a Gopro instead (cheaper and easier to handle) since this was my first time diving with a camera, lights, tray, etc. Besides the stabilization issues and lack of macro, I'm very happy with the Gopro setup. But maybe I'll start drooling over the Sony again when the RX200 comes out later this year.
Yes, I had my lights on for most shots; for others, I was afraid the light would scare the critters away.
I also used Backscatter Flip filter (knowing what i know now, I wouldn't even bother taking the gopro down there without some kind of red/amber filter).
After a couple of days experimenting/flipping between the Shallow, Dive, and Deep filters, I ended up mostly using the Dive filter only. The Dive filter worked fine in shallow depth... if the color was too warm, it meant the sun was out and bright enough so I could do without any filter.
Using the Deep filter in deep water with lights was much too warm/red, and without lights the video quality was terrible... so in deep water I would use lights with the Dive filter, which was often just about the right amount of warmth and color.
Here's the link to the Still shots again, jsut in case: Flickr: trevalo0325's Photostream
Yes, all the shots on flickr were from the "auto 5 sec capture" function (except for that last shot of Oia, not sure how that squeezed in there). And bear in mind, for every "keeper", there were tonnes of blurry and useless shots.
I was very impressed with Gopro. I was originally considering RX100 but before making the commitment, decided to try with a Gopro instead (cheaper and easier to handle) since this was my first time diving with a camera, lights, tray, etc. Besides the stabilization issues and lack of macro, I'm very happy with the Gopro setup. But maybe I'll start drooling over the Sony again when the RX200 comes out later this year.
Yes, I had my lights on for most shots; for others, I was afraid the light would scare the critters away.
I also used Backscatter Flip filter (knowing what i know now, I wouldn't even bother taking the gopro down there without some kind of red/amber filter).
After a couple of days experimenting/flipping between the Shallow, Dive, and Deep filters, I ended up mostly using the Dive filter only. The Dive filter worked fine in shallow depth... if the color was too warm, it meant the sun was out and bright enough so I could do without any filter.
Using the Deep filter in deep water with lights was much too warm/red, and without lights the video quality was terrible... so in deep water I would use lights with the Dive filter, which was often just about the right amount of warmth and color.
DesertEagle
Contributor
Quick question about the intermittent stills: are they full resolution?
jphehe
Contributor
- Messages
- 90
- Reaction score
- 14
Yes, I usually shoot at 720/60p and each pic is sized @ 1MB, 3840x2080. The manual says the photo size is determined by the video dimension that you select.
16:9 --> 8 Megapixel
4:3 --> 12 Megapixel
SubMatt
Registered
My black 3+ is on the way...can't wait!
Carpster61
Contributor
I have many great stills from my GoPro Hero 3 Black. Some I have had blown up to a3 size ... I have taken none of them in photo mode. I have taken all of them from the video footage using GoPro Studio 2.0. I just pause it at a suitable spot and if a bit blurred, I just advance frame by frame until it unblurrs ... I have some great pics. 
Attachments
SubMatt
Registered
How is your go pro mounted Carpster?
Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Tapatalk
Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Tapatalk
Carpster61
Contributor
On a monopod, (Extendable arm) ... One of these >>> https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=u...xsories.com%2Findex.php%2Fushot2.html;500;500
Similar threads
