For your non-water-proof camcorder you can make your own UV house! You use a piece of acrylate tube, with one glued-on front, a glued-on flange and a flat piece of arcylate as rear cover and the 'seam' between the rear flange and the rear cover is waterproofed by Vaseline, and two screws keep the rear in position. You turn the camcorder on, secure it with a piece of EPP foam, attach the rear cover and then use your remote that came with it! To protect the latter you stuff it in a ziplock bag! Works excellently! The display can be turned outward/forward so you see what your filming, even when the display is along the side of the camera. It will film with the display off, but you have no control at all! It would have been nice to have manual power on/off control, as the battery runs flat fairly quickly when its on (about an hour effective filming)! and maybe to be able to choose between video & high quality stills), but it is OK for me! An alternative I am thinking about is to modify an old UV house I have for my Olympus C-8080, but that is very big, and cumbersome! So I guess I'll try to device an external battery to prolong the camera's operational endurance further - there is plenty of room in my tube .-)! There are some pictures of it in my 'A lot of junk!' subdirectory at www.foldingkayaks.org (it's in the photo gallery, you'll find a subsection called 'Tord' and they you have to leaf through 'A lot of junk!'). there used to be texts about all my pictures there, but somehow all got lost after spammers, et cetera, attacked! Good luck! Tord PS The format (AVHD) is very much compressed, so you need a good computer! -- Be Yourself _at_ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 08 2008 - 14:33:46 PDT
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