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Originally posted by kitebored

I know this is only half kite releated but does anyone know where i can get an underwater casing for my jvc mg505?

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Is this a video camera? If yes than it's very easy to mke one.
Use 5 inch PVC sewage piping with screwed end caps.
Go the a glazier and ask to cut a round piece of 5 mm glass to fit inside the screw-on caps, cut the cap to creatre a round window (leave at least 10 mm frame to glue the glass) and use slilicone to glue the glass.
Make sure you use silicone grease on the cap's o-rings, to have good seal. And test the seals by sinking the enclosure without the camera inside.
the only back-draw of tghis set-up is that you have to start the cammera before you close the cap and you have one hour of recording. but who cares, I got good underwater footage with this set-up.
For reference see my other post regarding Helmet camera in which I am using a similar setup.
A "professional" underwater enclosure, will cost you an arm and a leg, whist this setup, all the parts and the glass should be around 70 - 80 bucks and around 2 hours of fiedling around.

check jvc website
i had a dvp7 and got dedicated uwater casing, was xxy ~1k i think
was very good, but ultimately led to the death of ny camera as water got in and that was that, i got a bit slack i think, only taking some footage of teh kids jumping off a jetty fom the water

there is a company that make other casings cant remember name maybe try google

or u can order a soft case from air born that will fit your camerra they work a treat and u can tell if its going to break... there are lots of soft case brand that will set you back around 120 if memory serves

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Originally posted by Ryland

has anyone ever used one of those soft cases. if so whats the quality of the footage like and how does it compare to footage from a solid housing. and is it the same method for keeping water drops of the front.

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Whilst I do prefer my case ( I know what I've been assembling and testing), the soft cases are pretty safe, for a limited time.
The soft plastic starts pretty soon to "age", after one season changes the transparency becoming "milky" and changes its "softness" becoming somehow brittle - time to get a new one!
The good quality ones have the front lens made of polycarbonate, with good optical quality, so the footage should be as good as with a bare camera.

hey ryland u can get soft cases with the glass/ polycarbonate or somthing hard view window where the lense of the camera sits im trying to remeber the name of the company i saw doing this but that would work like a hard case as far as lense quality... ill post the name when i remeber it

bingo

www.ewa-marine.com

they look like they could be ok. whats one of those ewa marine ones worth roughly.