With the age of digital imaging, nearly every (shallow water) diver can be complex with underwater photography. This spin is of a true beginner camera outfit. The Chinese made, Svp Acqua digital outfit includes the camera principles and waterproof case for under 0. There are inescapable limitations and we'll cover them in this review.
Don't expect pro results with this camera, but you'll be surprisingly pleased with the versatility this small compact outfit provides. With all the features you'd expect to find in beloved brand 'point and shoot' cameras, this compact principles will assuredly fit into your Bcd pocket. The specifications are listed after our spin comments. Since the factory marketing brochure supplied these, we cannot confirm or dispute them.
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First of all, before using this camera... View the enclosed Dvd instruction manual in case,granted with the camera. There are many features and settings that you'll need to know before you get out on the water to use your camera system. We've used many dissimilar brands and all seem to have some logical settings and some not-so-logical procedures. Like most 'point and shoot' cameras, there is a delay in the middle of pushing on the shutter and having the actual shutter operation. After you become customary with the operation of the camera and the features you're ready for the underwater part.
Like any housing, you need to keep the housing clean and free from sand or grit that could originate a leak. Since the main seal is not assuredly an o'ring, I was very careful to clean the surfaces with a cotton tip (Qtip) and apply some o'ring grease to the surface as well as a thin film on the seal itself. The seal is sort of a wedge shape, so it should contribute a good inescapable pressure seal. The clean part is more for all the small control buttons that allow you to turn settings of the camera underwater. We'll get into the best settings we found when using the camera underwater.
When they say the housing is good to 15 meters or around 33 feet, they are not lying. Not that we were trying to flood the housing or anything, but at 60 feet the camera is not operational because the pressure is squeezing the controls and shuts the camera off. At 40 feet, you might get the camera to work, but don't count on changing the settings. At 35 feet the camera seems to work fine with all the features and settings operational. For many divers, this will be too limiting because most of your dives will be deeper than 35 feet. However, keep in mind that the red/yellow/orange end of the spectrum is filtered out beyond this depth too.
The camera and housing combination are well matched and easy to operate. With the clear plastic housing, you can assuredly see the settings on the camera. Like most digital displays inescapable angles are more difficult to see, but with the proper shading and angle all things is illustrated on the 2 inch screen. Even though you can turn the lens focal distance from wide angle to zoom, we kept the setting on wide angle for the dives during the whole process because of the water. Keep this in mind for all underwater photography; stay close to your subject and use the widest angle possible for good results.
For the still shots, the camera was set for the strobe to fire with each shot. This uses up your batteries faster, but if the subject is closer than 8 feet, you'll have good imaging and color. The best results were our macro shots where we set the camera for 'close-up' and used the flash. When using the movie mode, you'll be impressed with the sharpness of the images, but don't expect high capability audio. The housing must digest a lot of the sound as much of the underwater audio is muted. More than likely, you'll edit with some musical background anyway.
The color balance was a small off. We did turn the settings agreeing to the instructions and the results were that the color balance was a small on the blue side for topside shots. This was not an issue for the underwater shots as the greenish tint of the water was eliminated. Most of the color balance issues can be handled in the editing phase.
The claim of being 12.0 mega pixels is a small deceiving because this is the 'hardware interpolation' not the 'image resolution' which is 5.0 mega pixels. All in all, we were not disappointed in the capability results of the good pictures. However, some of the shots showed camera shake even with the built in flash. This means that the shutter does adjust for the estimate of light, so it's leading to squeeze the cameral and hold it as still as possible.
We used an 8 Gb Sd card because we imaginable to take a lot of video and had ample memory space for two dives. We didn't use the in case,granted Usb cable because we use a card reader to our laptop and then back up the memory to a conveyable hard drive. The power source uses two triple A Alkaline Batteries, so it's not a question having new batteries for each dive. We didn't use the 'voice recorder' feature, but from our underwater video experience, it would not be recommended inside the underwater housing.
Now for the lowest line advice on this gear: If you plan to take your underwater imaging seriously, save your money for a more broad system. This could be the perfect outfit for a sport diver that wants to share their diving perceive with their friends and family. For less than 0 (prices range from -100), not along with your Sd Memory card or batteries, it is a value. The Svp cameras are ready at some dive shops and are directly marketed from some importers online. The next "point and shoot" underwater outfits, without an external strobe, will most likely cost over 0. So, if you are going on vacation and thinking about having your own digital camera outfit for shallow water, this is the answer. Of course, for around at most diving centers you could rent a camera with all things included. Sometimes the choice is not easy, but you can know a lot more from man who has tested the Svp out. It is a great still and video camera outfit for around the water and underwater to about 35 feet.
Specifications from the Manufacturer:
· Waterproof design: Don't be afraid to take this Aqua camera to the water-even underwater. The waterproof case will protect this camera to depths of 30 feet.
· Very sleek and small camera design
· Takes Pictures, Video, and Audio Clips with it's built in microphone.
· Resolution sensor gives you the choice of taking: 5 Mp, 3.1 Mp, 1.3 Mp, and 300K Resolution Images.
· Takes, 12 and 8 Mp pictures straight through hardware interpolation.
· Movie mode: When a photograph isn't enough, shoot 640 x 480 (Vga) video, with sound, at 30 frames per second.
· 2.0" Lcd screen: This compact color screen has plenty of room to help you manufacture your shots.
· Zoom: The 8x digital zoom enlarges pixels to fill the frame with your beloved part of the image.
· Adjustable Flash
· Self timer: 2/10/10+2 Seconds
· Tripod Capabilities
· Onboard White Balance
· Waterproof to 50ft
· 16Mp Built in Memory, Takes Sd Cards to enlarge memory.
· Power Source: 2 triple A Batteries
· Time Stamp Options: Off/ Date only/ Date and Time
· Comes with software, hookup via Usb 1.1
· Video/Tv out supported- Via video out cable.
· self-acting power mode- Prolong batteries life by auto-switching the camera power off.
· Auto Flash, Auto Flash with Red-eye reduction, Slow Sync, Fill-in Flash, Flash off, Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Tungsten, Sunset, custom etc...
· Multi-Lingual Interface 8 Menu Languages including: English, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, T. Chinese, and S. Chinese.
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