Video Cameras for uwh

Who's using what out there for good underwater hockey videos??? I was thinking about getting a flip HD with an underwater housing. Any feedback on that?

Steve
CanAm Underwater Hockey Gear - canamsticks.com - Home

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Carol Rose

Anything that scuba divers use, is good for uwh. The "good" uwh video is dependant on water viz, depth, lighting and correct white balance, much more than the quality of the camera. Flip HD makes for easier handling with the video, and little or no extra stuff is needed to play arround with it.

But later you'll probably wish to have hard cable connection with the surface, so you can show it in real time, like on tournaments and such. If you can get such u/w housing that supports this, and doesnt cost too much... but then, if camera has only USB port, you will not be able to do this, since USB cable is limited to only few meters in lenght.

Also depends on what the purpose is:
if you want direct broadcast, use one with cable. We have a lot of those at our club, so should you be interested let me know and I'll post all information that I have.
We have had 6 simultaneous in the water during our tournament (Argonauta Underwaterhockey Tournament) and this will be 8 next year.
We use Apple driven laptops for storage and editing after the tournament, but you can use harddiskrecorders or pc aswell (both tested aswell).

Looking forward to what others have to say about this...

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Just moving fins, flying pucks and making goals...

Hi Simon,

I wanted an uncorded type of video camera, so I bought the flip ultra HD with a underwater case. For 225 dollars you cannot beat it! I wanted to make some videos of uwh to put up on my site. So far it seems to work great and the quality is awesome!

Steveo
CanAm Underwater Hockey Gear - canamsticks.com - Home

I have no quicktime installed, Simon. Do you have some other formats or youtube links? Sounds very much similar to what we use...

Not at this moment... Because our website is also Mac based we have to use Quicktime for the time being. A new site will be there in a couple of years, but for now, it will be this. Sorry for that..

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Just moving fins, flying pucks and making goals...

Hello,

to come back on last post here:
We embedded two of the video's that we made last year on our site: Argonauta Underwaterhockey Tournament

So this is the 'normal' quality at the tournament we host.

Cheers

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Just moving fins, flying pucks and making goals...

Hi all,

last weekend there were the Open Dutch Championships and the second day there was a guest present who brought a very nice gizmo: a fully remote controlled video system (including zoom).
The system is self build and for such a system pretty low cost. Most expensive parts are the camera (400 euro) and the cable to control the cam, power the whole deal and to send video signals (costs depend on length).
Here are some pictures of the system:
MobileMe Gallery
(to be honest I don't know how to embed photos in this forum :$ )

Hope you all enjoy this and might have some improvements/feedback.

Cheers

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Just moving fins, flying pucks and making goals...

Like the tournament website Simon - wish I could be there again this year.


Is the picture through the bubble distorted at all from that video camera - it looks pretty impressive! Any examples of videos taken with it?

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