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At 04:54 PM 17/05/1996 -0700, Peter N.R. Heseltine wrote: >Need answers to a couple of questions, please >Does anyone have actual diving/use experience with the >following systems used as video light sources? >(1) DiveRite Modular Lighting System >(2) OMS system >(3) American Underwater Lighting Eclipse light (24v) >(4) Light & Motion 30w x2 system powered by Nakita NiCads >Your own personal favorite light video or dive? (most can >be adapted to video) Your favorite vid camera housing >manufacturer? Peter, Me and Jamie each swim a 24v 250 watt Ocean Graphics video light. We don't stress them by turning them on and off a lot. The light heads are cast aluminium and survive being dropped on the roadway quite nicely. Or clonked into a wreck. They are heavy. You wouldn't want to drop one of these heads on your foot. The on-off switch is on the back of the head. It is a no-nonsense rotary. The battery packs are aluminium cylinders stuffed full of gel-cells. (no square pressure vessels here). Mine, with a shorter cylinder, is good for a 20 minute burn before fading. Jim's is good for 40 or more minutes (his cylinder has more gel cells in it. But then, he's bigger than me and can carry big stuff). Ocean Graphics reckon they can re-pack mine with new gel-cells and give me 30+ minutes burn time. I don't doubt it, and will have the operation one day, but for now, how long do camera batteries last? I whack the battery pack in between my doubles and forget about it. I play with the business end. It throws an absolutely edge-to-edge-even flood. When we work them together, we can daylight an area the size of a big room. So Jamie can shoot video without ruining it with gain. I love my OG video light. Almost as much as Jim loves his new housing - Amphibico's new unit for the Sony DCR-VX 1000. When you first see it it looks too small to fit the camera. It slides on like a sock. And gives Jim access to all controls: automatic, manual and presets. I have never seen such an intelligently planned, elegantly engineered housing. The aluminium casting, machining and finishing is artwork. Jim likes it a lot. Jim says he'd like to take the housing into the bath, and play with it while he fondles the housing. A better-than-broadcast digital signal from a camera/housing unit you can lift out of the water with one hand. The game's just changed. Tell 'em Jim.... rgrds billyW
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