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Moriarity, Robert wrote: > > I am shopping for an under water video camera system. > > Do any of you have/use them and if so what were the reasons for your > selection? UW videography and doccumentation. Digital processing in the 4:2:2 realm. Time code gemerator on board. > What features are a must? Small size and low light requirements withiut sacraficing to bandwidth noise. > What feature are just useless? Auto focus, swing out flat panel monitors, DC coupled audio transducers. > If you were going to purchase a new system what would you get? Canon XL1 DVCam (IEEE 1394) in an Amphibico Housing. Very solid magnesium alloy body. Excellent optics and flexibility (XL AND EF lenses); very low power consumption compared to a Hi8 and Beta; shift of RGB component processing to 50%/G and 50%/RB vice typical processing of 60%G and 40%RB creating a higher sampling rate and providing 410,000 pixels in terms of resolution. Better than 4db improvement in light sensitivity compared to the Sony VX-1000. Another thing I like about it is the optical image stabilizer (good for topside) and verticle smear reduction in those unforseen white-out situations (sun whip pans, et el). The camera passes 180,000 pixels to the color view finder alone. I would pair the setup with a set of 50w Comet lights. The above is a much lighter and easier handling system than the BVP-90 Beta-Sp or Digi-Beta backs I have used in the past with superior signal processing and light characteristics. -- T.MAY - LA SAT TECH-SCDC/GlobeCast North America-France Telecom/NEDist http://www.globecast.com or http://www.francetelecom.com = work http://pw2.netcom.com/~tleemay/scdc.html = play http://pw2.netcom.com/~tleemay/index.html = home -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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