Editorial

Staff · Issue 70, Jan/Feb 2013 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Sony HVR-A1, Amphibico housing, Panasonic GH2

Editorial Real video My main interest is shooting video underwater and up until now I have been mainly using a Sony HVR-A1 in an Amphibico housing. I say mainly because I have also strayed into the hybrid world of Micro 4/3rds where the Panasonic GH2 gave excellent results but the handling of the housing was far from ergonomic in terms of producing video footage. In addition the GH2 is primarily a stills camera and I found myself switching from stills to video and back again and this is a recipe for bad results from both. I am living proof of that :-) I remember Peter Scoones saying to me that he couldn’t shoot stills and video on the same day. The mindset needed would be too confusing to pull off both properly. Berkley White of Backscatter, when I interviewed him for this magazine, went even further and said that he would shoot only stills or video for an entire trip. The problem is tha…