Me hates Aqua :p

[TimeChild]

Just one question: in some video's I see that you're using your handycam on logflume-rides or great splashes. How do you make a pov of a water-filled ride without damaging your cam? I'm using a sony DCR-HC90E.

 

GRTZ.

[Chris Benvenuto]

well, use a ziploc waterproof bag, put the camera in, make holes for the strap on the camera and bam, you have it!

 

well, Elissa or Robb, is this how you did it? I can't quite remember for sure though....

[BarryH]

I saw Robb wrap up his camera is a plastic bag. The whole bag covers his camera. There's a small hole for his lens to stick out.

 

I use a special waterproof enclosure case for my camcorder.

[TheKlockster]

He also has some cool POV of water slides at Holiday World. I think he just put it in a bag for that.

[robbalvey]

Yup, the make-shift water rig works just fine and is much cheaper!

 

Although I will add the "don't try this at home unless you REALLY know what you're doing" disclaimer as I went through several revisions of it before I actually would submerge the rig underwater.

 

And it was more than just "put it in a bag and cut a hole in it" it acutally took a bit of sciencing out how to get it totally waterproof.

 

But for log flumes and such I just normally hold the camera and hope it doesn't get wet! Remember, for each trip we do, we normally travel with 2 or 3 DV cameras (for the UK trip we had 4 DV cameras and 2 lipstick cameras) so we always have a back-up just in case!

 

--Robb

[commander jigga]

When I went to Schlitterbahn Tuesday, I kept a parkmap in a Ziploc Bag and it worked fine. I'm thinking a plastic bag would work for your camera, I'd just cover it more.

[benzo41190]

But for log flumes and such I just normally hold the camera and hope it doesn't get wet! Remember, for each trip we do, we normally travel with 2 or 3 DV cameras (for the UK trip we had 4 DV cameras and 2 lipstick cameras) so we always have a back-up just in case!

 

--Robb

 

BTW, do you still use MiniDV or did you go with DVD yet? Also, do you use the DCR-HC30 anymore, or did you switch to the DCR-HC32. Because I don't know if I should pay more for the DCR-HC30, if the DCR-HC32 is just as good?

[robbalvey]

I would NEVER use one of the DVD cameras. It compresses your footage on the fly and most of the times it compresses it to look like shit. I'd much rather have broadcast quality raw footage and compress it myself.

 

And I use the 30 and the 32 pretty much equally.

 

--Robb

[benzo41190]

Alright I wanted to make sure. Because I know the DCR-HC32 was a replacement on the HC30. I just wanted to know if they were pretty much the same.

[TimeChild]

I would NEVER use one of the DVD cameras. It compresses your footage on the fly and most of the times it compresses it to look like poo. I'd much rather have broadcast quality raw footage and compress it myself.

 

And I use the 30 and the 32 pretty much equally.

 

--Robb

 

That's actulaly how it is, I bought mine (the 90E) because tests with a dvd version gave me crap, to much prebuffering, compressing...the result makes you cry.

If you're useing handy's, stick witch DV.

 

GRTZ

 

p.s : I bought myself a waterproof enclosure for my cam, I don't have that many camera's to spare so I've kept it on the safe side , anyway thanx for your replies.