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Originally Posted by ful-rac
I guess If I ever lose it on the reef..I can blame him for that too.   |
First off I love the camera stuff but I've never used a Gopro and I've got a feeling that I'm not only old school but kind of old fashion when it comes to this stuff.
Back over a decade ago there was this guy Malibu Frank that was really into lobstering and bought a aquaview underwater camera for filming his nets. When he upgraded a color model I bought his camera and used to use it for hoopnetting checking out reefs and drifting for halibut.
My Aquaview is a BW and IR underwater camera that is weighted with a keel and a hundred feet of cord and a little TV so you can see it in real time. For lobstering I'd set it up on the net then watch for lobsters to climb into it. Short of taking a vcr with you there was no way to record with it though.
Are you guys dropping a whole camera down without being able to see down there or can you see what the camera sees in real time?
I haven't played with the thing in quite a while but for me, I was always concerned with hanging it up, but at least I could see exactly where it was at any given time, and I think I paid like a hundred bucks for mine.
Your vids great it really reminds me of the time I first dropped my camera down on Hermosa reef. You think there would be structure everywhere but it's actually just some junk on the bottom really spread out.
Cool stuff thanks for the vid.