Weighting my camera case

[Kate]

As some of you know, I’ve bought myself a new camera. The case is a WP-DC30 and I need some kind of weight system to avoid what happened to my last year…camera and case floating away!!!

Any ideas?

[daz]

A good lanyard is your first line of defence to camera loss.

The problem if the camera is negative is that if it falls off or is dropped you might not notice and it will sink to the bottom and may not be found. (Especially if on a deep wall dive).

If it is positive, it should float to the surface and hopefully can be picked up on the surface. You could try to make it more visible, maybe something brightly coloured attached to it, or even fix a snaplight to it on night dives.

Otherside you could just fix some lead weight to it to weight it down, possible a strip of lead flashing or two along the bottom. Hole drilled through and then a suitable bolt screwed into an accessory/tripod shoe hole (Assuming there is one on the bottom)

One other consideration, if it is positive it will usually end up tucked under your arm, if it is negative and you don't keep hold of it or it dangles too much it could bump along the bottom

Daz

[Scubanut]

Hiya Kate,
Why don't you attach it to yourself?
I have mine on a lanyard (brass clip vice plastic), of the coiled variety and with an added clip to stop it from hanging, it cost about £17.
Not too much when compared to losing your camera me finks, plus it's easier to let it hang when you want to hang in the blue and relax and just watch everything go by :-)

Hope that this helps..

Gary
aka Scubanut

[Fiona]

Kate I have something similar to this

[daz]

Originally Posted by Scubanut

Hiya Kate,
Why don't you attach it to yourself?
I have mine on a lanyard (brass clip vice plastic), of the coiled variety and with an added clip to stop it from hanging, it cost about £17.
Not too much when compared to losing your camera me finks, plus it's easier to let it hang when you want to hang in the blue and relax and just watch everything go by :-)

Hope that this helps..

Gary
aka Scubanut

One of these in fact http://www.simplyscuba.com/ProductDe...?StockID=74697

Yep this is what I use as well (Obviously mine is in manly black )

They are quite strong, I had to drop my video camera once and it ended up bobbing around on the end of it's leash about 4ft below me.

Daz

[Jules]

I had my camera weighted but ended up agreeing with Steve (note to self, don't make a habit of this) that it was safer without so it would float up rather than fall down if detatched. As said above get a decent lanyard or thingymabob like fiona posted.


jules

[Fiona]

[/quote]Yep this is what I use as well (Obviously mine is in manly black )
Daz[/quote]

LOL, I have spent the last 10 mins trying to find the right one but yes very much like this one, (with very deep voice) mine is black too.

[Kate]

I do have it attached to a coiled lanyard, but my camera last year was also attached to a lanyard (a retractable one) and I managed to loose that. I have a feeling that it floated to the surface and disappeared.

I’m just worried that I’ll end up loosing another camera (and throwing another wobbler)

[Fiona]

Kate

Stop panicking, the curley ones are more than adequate. The retractable ones are poor in comparison.

Just make sure one end is securely attached to a d ring on your BC and you won't have a problem.

[daz]

Agree with Fiona

The curly ones are really, really, really strong.

Make sure you get one with very good (big) stainless or brass clips on the end (Not plastic).

As long as you clip it on somewhere secure like a D-ring it should not go amiss.

Totally understand your concerns but the retractable lanyards are just not very secure in my experience.

Daz