Strobe for housed digital.

[Freeflow]

Can anyone recommend a strobe for a Cannon Powershot A40 housed in a Cannon WP-DC200s? I'm not looking for anything all singing all dancing as it's my snapshot camera [I still use film when I have pretenions of adequacy for u/w photography].

Ta muchly.

[Druid]

I have a Powershot S50 and I use a Fuji digital strobe It's basically a slave flash in a waterproof housing so it's not brilliant, but it does a reasonable job and at £130 it's a cheap way to get some extra light.

[Okeanos]

I would have suggested the same.

Anything else is gonna coast at least the same for an arm & tray and even more for a strobe.

[recurve]

clear otter type box, self contained slave flash, length of snap loc lubrication pipe , some scrap stainless or ally and a bit of ingenuity and bodging.

£25 or thereabouts.

[Daz217]

Sorry to hijack. I have the same camera and have 2 questions if you can help.
1/ Where can you get the camera weight? I hate it's positive buoyancy.
2/ The batteries die really quickly(even rechargeables) in cold water. Do you have similar probs and if so how do you rectify it?

[Okeanos]

Originally Posted by Daz217

Sorry to hijack. I have the same camera and have 2 questions if you can help.
1/ Where can you get the camera weight? I hate it's positive buoyancy.
2/ The batteries die really quickly(even rechargeables) in cold water. Do you have similar probs and if so how do you rectify it?

Buy A Fuji

They come with a weight to make them neutral and will take 500 photos without flash and about 200 with flash

You deserved that for trying to hi-jack the thread.

[Daz217]

funny
but not really that helpful
At least i kept the topic vaguely relevant

[Freeflow]

Originally Posted by Daz217

1/ Where can you get the camera weight? I hate it's positive buoyancy.

If it isn't in my hands it's clipped off, so that isn't a problem for me. As there is a tripod mounting screw on the underside of the housing you could try making a plate of metal the same size as the camera housing bottom with a hole in it and screwing that to the housing.

Originally Posted by Daz217

2/ The batteries die really quickly(even rechargeables) in cold water. Do you have similar probs and if so how do you rectify it?

Rechargables will tend to die quicker than disposables because of the nature of how they work [lower initial voltage, sudden drop in power as they fail].

The camera is drawing power all the time the batteries are fitted [remember it only has the on/off button as a push, not a power breaking type] and it is best to fit the batteries just before you house the camera to make them last the longest, and remove them when the camera won't be used for a while.

[Daz217]

Thanks Freeflow. I saw a guy in the Red Sea with "our" camera and he had a purpose built weight for the camera base which did indeed screw into the tripod hole. He said it cost about £30 but i can't locate a supplier.
I do put the batteries in just prior to housing. In warm water no problems with the power. In cold water 4C to 8C it don't like it regardless of which batteries i use. Once out of the water with the same batteries still in place it works fine. I can't figure it out.

[recurve]

Daz, a bit of roofing lead, perhaps more than one layer wrapped with some gaffer tape secured to the tripod hole by a screw almost certainly available from your local camera shop (tripod bushes are almost completely standardised).