UWCameraStuff Housing Sentry

Damien Siviero · Issue 58, Jan/Feb 2011 · pp. 39–40

Products mentioned: Housing Sentry, MityVac Hand Pump, Electronic Pump, Aquatica housing

You’ve just sealed up housing with camera inside – what next? Conventional wisdom would suggest that you either rely on a dunk test in fresh water or simply hope that no seal has been compromised. The dunk test – a procedure that uses water entering a confined space filled with expensive electronics as an alert mechanism, not my idea of common sense. Then there is the hopeful approach, whereby you assume everything is okay either because you’re flawless or your housing was engineered by god and can never fail. Again, not my idea of fun when I have thousands invested in my camera gear. Over recent years I have seen the housing integrity solutions delivered by both Gates/Hugyfot and looked on with interest. Recently I discovered the Housing Sentry by UW Camera Stuff, which is third party solution that can be installed in almost any housing (with various levels of ease). All these systems w…