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Some camera gear at the Digital Shootout

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Falcon04 Regular Member • Posts: 106
Re: Some camera gear at the Digital Shootout

kelpdiver wrote:

the liveboards' camera tables these days are half big rigs, half gopros. The compacts are vanishing away. And as you saw, the 4/3 rigs are nearly the same size as a FF - the housing is smaller, but the strobe arms and strobes are no different.

The main variation is in the dome port size. A FE lens can use a 4" dome port. But a rectalinear needs no less than a 6, and most are 8-9.5, so again, no space savings.

You did see thoese $7000 wet lenses from Nauticam that avoid the volume, if not the weight. But money would have to be no object to go there.

That's an interesting observation: the split between large rigs and go pros. Is it a function of the compacts, small mirrorless aren't keeping pace with the FFs?  Or is it people separating into stills and video camps?

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