How many waiting for a Vee Cam?

[milldog]

how much are these things??

Graham

[The Duck]

Originally Posted by milldog

how much are these things??

Graham

£950.00

Veecam | Pre-Order

[windymiller]

Cor, they ve gone up £100!!

When I ordered one(which still hasnt turned up!) from the LIDS it was £850 and you got £50 discount.

Reckon they will be over a thousand before I ever see one!!

[stevechesh]

As long as you do shallow bimbles, just get one of these Helmet Camera Central

[A. Berk]

Originally Posted by stevechesh

As long as you do shallow bimbles, just get one of these Helmet Camera Central

Good find Steve, that VholdR thingy looks like it could be slotted into a torch body - voila - deep camera!

Or hows about the wee Sanyo Xacti HD in an Epoque 40m housing...



the whole lot cost me less than 500 quid. It may not be mask mountable but you get a pretty good surface camera to boot.

Berko

[ChristianG]

Originally Posted by warmwaterdiver

or your version of it anyway!

Interesting comment.

Care to back it up? Or are you simply here for six word "clever effect" criticism?

Having had a quick (very quick) look at your last phew (pun intended) posts I'd say you're pretty good at short replies without much substance. You might indeed produce some deep, in depth (puns intended) posts but none that I could see at a glance.

Last time I looked this is a Forum thus opinions, right or wrong, are valued.

Never mind the sheer quantity of your posts and you have, without question, quantity on your side you are only as good as your last post thus, in my book at least, you are presently on a minus scale.

Either put up, by actually criticising what I wrote in proper fashion, or shut up.

[ChristianG]

Originally Posted by A. Berk

Good find Steve, that VholdR thingy looks like it could be slotted into a torch body - voila - deep camera!

Or hows about the wee Sanyo Xacti HD in an Epoque 40m housing...

the whole lot cost me less than 500 quid. It may not be mask mountable but you get a pretty good surface camera to boot.

To be fair to the camera in question neither of these will remotely go to the 100 metres purported for the Veecam, if/whenever it really makes it. Nor will a camcorder stashed into a torch make it from a lighting PoV.

Folks, the Veecam is a brave attempt at something not attempted before which is to give deep non-professional (I hate that word "tech") mixed gas SCUBA/RB divers a "just let it run" camera. Unfortunately the Veecam concept, particularly at deeper depths is, frankly, flawed - especially, amongst other things, without illumination. Actually it's flawed for exactly that "just let it run" concept when I think of it. Photographic people should, I would think, understand what I mean by that.

The maximum I've personally dived to (that I know of) in the gin clear and warm waters of PNG is 75 metres and I wouldn't bother to take a camera down to that depth in that part of the world without lights. Please don't ask me what gas that was on, that's not for this Forum.

[windymiller]

Originally Posted by A. Berk

Good find Steve, that VholdR thingy looks like it could be slotted into a torch body - voila - deep camera!

Or hows about the wee Sanyo Xacti HD in an Epoque 40m housing...



the whole lot cost me less than 500 quid. It may not be mask mountable but you get a pretty good surface camera to boot.

Berko

I ve got one of those, brilliant little piece of kit but not hands free.

Thats why I went for one of the Vee Cams

[nigelH]

I wanted a simple switch-on and let it run camera and I've been playing with ideas for ages. The VeeCam just short circuited my plans so I ordered on at a dive show because it would save me many times what I cost my own labour at to build.

It went to Geneva with me but I missed the 100m dive due to kit problems so I don't know if it would have flooded or have recorded black on black. However walking it round the garden and waving my Fami 75 about I get nice shots of an untidy dog on a tidy lawn surrounded by tidy shrubs...

I wonder if the gardener could clip the pooch...

[ChristianG]

Originally Posted by nigelH

I wonder if the gardener could clip the pooch...

Errrmmm,

The gardener in question, that wouldn't be Mrs H by any chance?

Sorry, I'll get me coat.