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Some camera gear at the Digital Shootout

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Re: Some camera gear at the Digital Shootout

Falcon04 wrote:

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?

My observation is that when you do video, you need to commit to it for many dives to get the content you need.  So whether compact or big rig, they were in one camp or the other.  Gopro's of course tend to be video.  As for video, they ranged from gopro's (including staff) to Red Epic-M Dragon 6K.

I'd not been around other rigs before, except an old Nikon F4 rig and a Nikon D90 one back in 2009.  I did notice the 4/3 stuff was a bit smaller, though not all that much.  But has to be easier to pack.

There were APS-C/DX cameras there too.

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