DSLR Underwater Housing
Canon DSLR Underwater Housing
If you have a Rebel, then rush out to your nearest online photography store and buy a Canon DSLR underwater housing. Even if you dive or snorkel three times a year, you won’t regret it because the pictures you bring home will knock your socks off. The difference in quality between images taken under water in RAW format and the jpegs you get with a snapshot underwater camera is enough to convince anyone who loves to take pictures.
The big names in the Canon DSLR underwater housing market are Sea & Sea and Ikelite. Both make good products but the Sea & Sea is a little more expensive. The port for Ikelites are $200 to $300 for a standard port and around $500 for a dome port. For the Sea & Sea you’ll need to buy a port base at around $170, then an actual port on top of that. The Sea & Sea ports are just under $300 for a flat port and $500 and up for dome ports.
Why Take Your Expensive DSLR Under Water?
A good DSLR underwater housing takes the fear out of the scary thought that you will be submerging your expensive camera while diving or snorkeling. But why would you want to put your good camera in such a potentially disastrous situation in the first place?
There are tons of underwater cameras on the market these days, great for vacations and taking snapshots while snorkeling. But if you use a more serious camera on land, why settle for less while in the water? Getting serious means taking your DSLR diving with you, so you’re going to need a DSLR underwater housing.
The range of possibilities you get with RAW images from your DSLR opens up a whole world of new shots you can achieve, and that’s important with the challenging conditions met by divers taking pictures. Anyone who goes out and does a lot of underwater photography will want to be able to play with the images afterwards, using Photoshop or something like it. You can add contrast and bring out amazing detail if you have high quality images in RAW format, which captures so much more information about the image than does a JPEG. Once you’ve got your DSLR underwater housing, get ready for some incredibly beautiful results.