GoProing

Christopher Hamilton · Issue 64, Jan/Feb 2012 · pp. 52–54

Products mentioned: GoPro Hero HD, UK Germany housing, Sartek GoPro Deep Housing, Subspace Pictures dome port, Backscatter flat port, gorillaPod, Ragecams lenses

GOPROIN’ By Christopher Hamilton As most of you know, the latest generation of digital SLR’s are equipped with very high quality HD video capabilities. For those of us that have already invested more that our share in an older yet perfectly adequate camera system, there is now an affordable solution to our video yearnings. The Gopro Hero HD camera was introduced a few years ago and has taken the market by storm. It is tiny, powerful and best of all it is cheap. It even comes in a waterproof housing with a dome port, which is rated well beyond recreational scuba depths. However, there are a few problems that shooting underwater presents that Gopro did not consider. The first draw back is that its fixed focus does not match the size and shape of its dome port. The lens is focused well beyond the virtual image created by the interaction of the dome port with water. The reason the Gopro is b…