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Carl, I considered the Amphibico and a housing from Jay-Mar Engineering, a small firm in the San Pedro (30 minutes south of L.A.). However, Jay-Mar's VX1000 housing was a tube, and larger than I wanted. If the Amphibico is anything like my old Quest housing, the only thing the UW mike will pick up is bubbles from my regulator. If you have not yet purchased a VX-1000, look very seriously at Sony's brand new DCR-TRV7, $2000 at B&H Photo. It has a 3" or 4" color monitor built into the camera. Jay-Mar makes a VERY nice housing for it. Much smaller than VX-1000 and comparable image quality in all but the best lighting conditions. I chose the VX1000 because it has 3-chips, the VX700 only had 1 chip. The jury is still out on the AUL lights. I'm getting them tomorrow, and in the Bahamas for one week starting June 28. I am expecting great things from these lights, 300W for 1 hour, 500W for 40 min. That has got to be some kind of wonderful. Look out Digital BetaCam! -- Regards, Peter A. Sale Midtown Edit Los Angeles CA USA Carl Heinzl wrote: > <snip> > > Thanks. What other housings did you consider for the VX1000? How do > you like the Amphibico so far? Where did you get it and how much was it > (sorry for all the questions). I like Light And Motion as a company, > however their VX1000 housing doesn't have a microphone and even though I > plan on doing some dubbing I like to have the natural background sounds > there. Sorry for so many questions but I'm heading down that decision > path right now. Light and Motion said to just go with the VX700 - that > for UW applications the difference between 1 and 3 chips is virtually > nonexistant. What do you think and why did you choose the 1000 over the > 700? > <snip> > > -Carl- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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