ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT UNDERWATER FILMING & PHOTOGRAPHY 

That was the plan!

Canon g7 is also an option... really depends on budget :)

your welcome!

you are very welcome! :)

THANK YOU!!!!

THATs SO COOL!!!

supercool!

welcome :)

thx :)

I would go for a camera that has full manual controls, to really learn the basics... once you leaned them they are the same on all other cameras :) helps a lot! Having RAW photo files is very important, but nearly all the cameras have a RAW photo mode these days.

​@@ReefPatrol Thanks for taking the time to do this and this answer - I had exactly the same question, especially since the missus just bought a TG5 for UW stills... Played around with it for video but mostly disappointed. Looking into the TG6, while the new ability to shoot 4K in the camera's famous UW macro modes is very tempting, the lack of manual controls seems too limiting to take the plunge. If I may rebound on this question (maybe a new question would be in better?) do you think you could, in the near future, give out some recommendations for, herm, relatively budget options cameras that offer good video and manual control - most of the stuff found online focuses on stills, stills, stills with very little actual info on using cameras primarily for UW video - compacts such as the Sony-a6400, Canon G7X and Sony RX100 are often mentioned as having good video performance but that's about it... And most basic kits are these are still quite price jump from say TG6+ housing set... I work in diving and use Gopros for small (storyless ;) ) logbook clips such as these ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H3-LJUT4_UI.html ) but would really like to try to push things a little further in the future, both in terms of editing and equipment, while staying in the portable, sturdy and financially relatively accessible zone if possible (unfortunately not options to dive for myself only at the moment) Thanks again for taking the time to do this! Cheers! Ben

great! Thanks!

I love Guam!!! Thank you!!!

Just make sure you go really in depth on your color correction video. I’ll pay money. I have self taught a bunch about FCPX and watched tons of tutorials but none are underwater specific enough

@@bradleymonell4653 we will! :)

It's highly stylized with a lot of post-processing. But it's what makes him standout, it's a "look" very much associated with him, & as a photog/creator, that's always the goal (to have your own distinctive style).

have to look into this

we are doing our best ;)

Hi Elaine, what do you mean by Sony's new sensor website???

Hi again, no I have absolutely no issues reaching any controls... great housing! Aquatica are great too of course... personal preference... try both... I like the smoothness of the knobs on Nauticam. Also they have a lot more accessories in my opinion.

Hi, btw you can USE Ambient Filters with NO RED filters. RED Filters will just improve the colors, the Ambient light fitler will get rig of the RED Tint, that the white lights get, when you do a manual white balance to the ambient light, check out our video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zn4NRQgl2tw.html If you have a Sony camera, then a RED Fitler makes a LOT of sense, as their White Balance doesn't work very well underwater because their Kelvin range is not enough. But the good news is, Sony are really good in low light, so adding filters will lower your exposure... but you can increase the ISO a LOT on sony, so you can compensate for the light loss due to filters! :)

thx!

acrually had that one in ... but cut it out... :) because I thought perhaps he didn't like the form factor ;) the OSMO Pocket and the FDR3000 ere a little different. and now thinking about it... of course you can also go 360° *lol* but I am guessing a compact cam will be best for him... but it's always so hard to say right? When you don't know the budget, etc...

@@ReefPatrol Yes that's a good point, and I guess for the same price you could get an LX10 or something in that class. I wouldn't say a 360 cam though, I have a passion for hating them but that's just me. I'm just using the Sony fdrx1000v with lume cubes, it's doing the job for a beginner diver.

thanks!

hehe :)

this will be a part of a future Episode. We use Vlog and sometimes we don't, depends on the project. With Log you should gain 1 Stop, not loose one stop ;) Dynamic range is one stop more with Log.

Well I will wait this comming episode with big interest, regarding your last one with the use of the rgb mixer, I learnt a lot of thing on it thank. but with vlog, what are the specific add on I need to use, maybe a lut rec709 to extend the signal, then use the rgb mixer ? I Found that it has good result, what do you think about that ? And of course waiting to know why in some case you use vlog and sometime not :)

@@gillescharvet yes a lut before could help :)

Reef Patrol thanks

@@gillescharvet welcome

welcome!

we will have a special eMail for this that will be active only for a special time slot. As soon as we start this, we will make a short video with all the details! :)

sure :) btu what do you want to know?

I want to see how you deal with boyancy issue

@@suwirwong please watch this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rs3XXeJF0qY.html

not sure if you can use the filters on other lights, I would assime not. Also it is designed for Keldan LEDs... so not sure...

Thankyou for the info, so where can I buy used Keldan lights that can ship international (Palau), because I will have too save up to buy 2 new ones, also I just upgraded from a hero5 to a Olympus Tg6 any advice. I will eventually upgrade to more better cameras.

@@kna335 ebay maybe? Not sure to be honest :) There is an underwater equipment buy & seel facebook group, check that out and post that you are searching for Lights :)

@Reef Patrol I am actually already part of the underwater equipment buy & sale facebook group and all are sold and there is a new post but still too much for me. I will still keep lookin. I really like your videos and want to learn everything about underwater filmmaking.

Im using a6400 with 10-18 f4..

thank you sooo much :)

@@ReefPatrol Thank you! I will look into that!!

Xix404 :)

yeah!

top! Danke :)

Check the video :) we talk about when sensor size is important :)

GH5 = because best camera for me above and uw. small, compact, lot's of options - mein reason IBIS + 4K60p! and the awesome timelapse feature :)

@@ReefPatrol Great, Thanks!!

@@ReefPatrol Ok, got it!! Thanks

But, honestly, I was waiting for all video the moment when you had to read it.

@@LoscoX hehe... challenge I never thought I'd have with UW Video Tutorials *lol*

yeah!!! coming soon!

nice!