Barmaglot_07 wrote:
SafariBob wrote:
Barmaglot_07 wrote:
This experience would be much easier and less expensive to acquire on an entry-level system such as a TG-6.
it would be demotivating for me to know in advance that I would feel unfulfilled by the results. I have been putting this off far to long due to my own prejudices.
A TG-6 with strobes and a wet wide lens will give you much better results than an A7R IV with 16-35mm in a little dome shooting in natural light.
well, I will read the mustard book, maybe that will change things, but so far I have yet to see great output from the TG. If anything, the GoPro and presumably the iPhone is better. I do understand that lighting is critical and that the TG would be vastly superior with lights in many situations to a GoPro without, or a full frame for that matter. But if the results are still not great, I don’t really see the point.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'shooting sideways' but external monitors for underwater housings do exist; they're commonly used by videographers, but some people use them for photography as well. Some are dedicated underwater units, others are housings for above-water external recorders such as Atomos Ninja series.
i think that would make a ton of sense for what I would want to do, but my suspicion is that these solutions would run in the thousands. It would be awesome to have a remote screen on the goggles for example, so it would be completely independent. I will look into it, and appreciate any pointers.
That it something that does not exist, and in all likelihood will not ever exist. For one thing, projecting camera output into your mask will make you blind to your own surroundings, which is dangerous. For another, there is no way to have high-bandwidth wireless communication underwater (because physics), and a cable leading from a camera to your mask will (a) get entangled and (b) pull your mask off, going back to dangerous. You can get a dive computer readout on your mask - Oceanic Datamask is long out of production and support, but Shearwater has the NERD and NERD 2 dive computers, and Scubapro recently came out with the Galileo HUD, but anything more than that? - forget it.
Well it could have a detachable coupling. Will look into your references, but I am sure you are right that it doesn’t exist.