SONY HDR-FX1 and the Amphibico Phenom housing

[Kalle Ljung]

Here is a short movie from the first dive with my new camera and housing, the dive site is the old quarry, Vagnhärad.

The movie is 150 MB large, download it below.
http://www.ljung.com/Movies/Vagnhärad.wmv

Camera: SONY HDR-FX1
Housing: Amphibico VHFXZ105, Phenom Pro Digital
Optics: Standard 94 degree wide angel port

/Kalle

[Anders Jelvéus]

Kalle,

Looks like great quality, but could you compress the fomat a bit more? At least I have problems to run the video smoothly on my computer with cable connection, 2 GIG of RAM, and 128MB of video RAM...

It is a very nice setup you have, and I am sure you will be able to get plenty of great footage. Do you know that Amphibico now offer a fix for the vignetting problem they have with that lens? You can read about it here:

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13526

You can also check with Wagsy at www.wetpixel.com (http://www.wetpixel.com) regarding building a manual white balance option for the Phenom housing. You can actually get a lot of good information about the Phenom housing (and others) on this site.

Sincerely

Anders

[Martin Björkdahl]

Why not encode in H.264 Quicktime instead of Windows Media?

[Derk]

Awesome quality, thanks for sharing!

During my tech1 we were filmed with the same equipment by one of the italian guys, but the quality suffered from the broadcast via a regular beamer:mad:

And, you seem to be blessed with quarrys with brilliant viz...

Best,

Derk