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Lamp for Canon WP-DC54 housing

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(unknown member) • New Member • Posts: 2

Lamp for Canon WP-DC54 housing

May 10, 2021

Hello,

at the time I am using a Canon G7X with a Canon WP-DC54 housing for underwater photography. I am looking for a lamp to add to the Canon housing and am wondering what you would recommend. Ideally I'd like to mount it on the shoe of the housing. Do I need an adapter and a lamp for this or do you know any all-in-one solutions?

Best regards

Chris

Canon PowerShot G7 X

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PHXAZCRAIG • Forum Pro • Posts: 19,651

Re: Lamp for Canon WP-DC54 housing

In reply to (unknown member) • May 11, 2021

If by lamp you mean strobe, the Ikelite AF-35 should work. I used one on a Canon SD-630 back in the day. It uses an optical sensor to trigger off a camera's pop-up flash. Put diffuser on housing, turn flash power down for camera strobe, and adjust power of the AF-35 with a dial.

If by lamp you mean some sort of continuous focus light, the Kraken 3500 is good.

If by lamp you mean something for video, I don't know.

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Re: Lamp for Canon WP-DC54 housing

In reply to PHXAZCRAIG • May 11, 2021

Thank you very much for your post. I mean a continuous focus light.

How would I mount the Kraken 3500 in the cold shoe of the housing? Do I need a flexarm, so that I can adjust the position of the light more easily or can I just use a small hot-shoe-YS adapter?

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PHXAZCRAIG • Forum Pro • Posts: 19,651

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In reply to (unknown member) • May 12, 2021

I'd say you could do a hot/cold shot to ball mount (products are available), but that seems to me to be a little bit limited, and possibly risky to the housing mount. I have mine on a big rig on one of the posts and a clamp. I can rotate and lean it a bit - though I must say I normally just have it pointing straight ahead. But there are times I have the camera pointed sideways and the light pointed straight to light my way.

I'd rather have it on the end of a flex arm of some type for the added capability (flexibility of positioning).

By the way, I've only had two focus lights ever, the first in 2015. I had a Fishlite V24, which gave 2400 lumens of light. The Kraken 3500 gives 3500 lumens. Both had red lights as well, and the Kraken has a blue one. I normally just use the brightest white light - except for battery life.

On the V24, running at full power the light ran about 40 minutes. So I reduced the power on it a lot as I normally do hour long dives. The Kraken is much better. Full power the whole hour. I do then change batteries between dives, so buy a spare no matter what light you get.

The Kraken is around $500 - bright light plus battery life isn't cheap. It's also not really bright enough for video, though it works for macro distances. There are a selection of other lights at various price points here:

https://www.bluewaterphotostore.com/underwater/lighting/focus-lights

If you want to see how mine is mounted, you can pick it out of these images of my rig:

https://www.cjcphoto.net/uwcamera/all.html

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Re: Lamp for Canon WP-DC54 housing

In reply to (unknown member) • May 17, 2021

chrisr340000 wrote:

Hello,

at the time I am using a Canon G7X with a Canon WP-DC54 housing for underwater photography. I am looking for a lamp to add to the Canon housing and am wondering what you would recommend. Ideally I'd like to mount it on the shoe of the housing. Do I need an adapter and a lamp for this or do you know any all-in-one solutions?

The cold shoe mount keeps the light a bit close to the lens, though with a longer one and a 6" arm, can have reasonable set up positions.

https://www.backscatter.com/Nauticam-Strobe-Mounting-Ball-for-Cold-Shoe-Long

I think you're better off going this route:

https://www.backscatter.com/Ultralight-Tray-for-Olympus-Canon-SandS-Polycarbon, can use the strobe arm as a handle as well. And it will work for any future compact camera housing.

unfortunately, the canon housing doesn't allow for 67mm screw ons, like the ring light from kracken.

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