Making an Aquatica

Jean Bruneau · Issue 59, Mar/Apr 2011 · pp. 45–50

Products mentioned: Aquatica housings

Every once in a while people ask me how housings are made, so to dispel any myths I have decided to take you on a tour of our company and show you the process from the ground up. No folks, it’s nothing like the machinery seen in Charlie Chaplin movies. Underwater housings do not come out of an oven and we certainly don’t have a large steam whistle calling the breaks like in the cartoons. In order for you to have fun creating images underwater, we need to be serious about our work (that does not mean we are unpleasant people, we love our fun as much as any of you)! The first step in creating a housing is not really taken by us, but by the camera manufacturer. The camera that they decide to create obviously has a major influence on whether or not it will catch on with underwater photographers. As a specialized community, underwater photographers are looking for things in a camera that are …