videos- Cozumel, Parts 2, 3, & 4

[robint]

I have finished the long videos for boat diving days...
here is the link to my Mexico album:

Mexico - Cozumel and the Yucatan Peninsula on Vimeo

I am now working on one short "Best of Cozumel" diving video, clips from all those longer ones and a "Cozumel - shore diving at SCC" video.

I am really pleased with the HD quality of my camcorder! (I have only used it here in fresh water for a few dives and in Calif for a few dives in low vis water last Sept) As you can see from the boat dive videos, I am down to 80' depths getting crystal clear footage and good color just using just the red filter, or I am in ripping current and still getting clear images, no pixelated blurry mess. The Canon HG-21 is really impressing me in every respect! I am recording at highest quality: 1920 x 1080 In editing I am only tweaking the white balance slightly and some shots I have toned down the brightness.
The Hg-21 has internal memory hard drive (never came close to running out of room) but I was saving daily onto a card and transferring to my Seagate portable drive each night just as a backup. This gave me peace of mind, especially after my fubar with my last camcorder in Roatan.

well, back to editing...

robin

 

[ronscuba]

Great videos Robin. :cool2:

Footage, music, editing, fantastic.

How does the angled lcd screen look inside the housing ? Must be ok since your framing was good.

The Canon-Ikelite combination looks like a winner and very affordable.

 

[robint]

Great videos Robin. :cool2:

Footage, music, editing, fantastic.

How does the angled lcd screen look inside the housing ? Must be ok since your framing was good.

The Canon-Ikelite combination looks like a winner and very affordable.

thanks Ron!
The angled LCD isn't really a problem though I hate those knobs on the back as I do not use any touch screen stuff underwater. The screen sits a bit back into the housing which at times seems hard to see, like when shallow, even though there is a hood to keep light off it from top.

As for price... yes, I think it is a winner. Less than $2k for camcorder and housing, then another $1k for computer to run the HD files/software. Ron watched my videos last night on our HD monitor on the computer and agreed that my upgrade to HD was a good investment!

this summer we are planning to go to NC for a few days of wreck diving, next year to Fiji or somewhere in Pacific. I think I am ready!

robin