Thursday, May 30, 2013

The SVP Camera Review

With age digital imaging, virtually every (shallow water) diver is worried with underwater photography. This review is of the true beginner camera outfit. China made, SVP Acqua digital outfit includes your camera system and waterproof situation for less than 0. You will find apparent restrictions and we'll cover them within this review.

Pricier professional results with this particular camera, but you will be remarkably happy with the flexibility this little compact outfit provides. With the features you'd anticipate finding in popular brand 'point and shoot' cameras, this compact system will fit into your BCD pocket. The specifications are listed after our review comments. Because the factory marketing sales brochure provided these, we can't confirm or dispute them.

To begin with, before by using this camera... see the enclosed DVD instructions supplied with your camera. You will find many features and configurations that you will have to understand before getting on water to apply your camera system. We have used a variety of brands and all sorts of appear to possess some logical configurations plus some not-so-logical methods. Like the majority of 'point and shoot' cameras, there's a delay between pushing around the shutter and getting the particular shutter operation. Once you understand the whole process of your camera and also the features you are ready for that underwater part.

Like every housing, you have to keep your housing neat and free of sand or grit that may produce a leak. Because the primary seal isn't an o'ring, I had been careful to wash the surfaces having a cotton tip (Qtip) and apply some o'ring grease towards the surface in addition to a thin film around the seal itself. The seal is kind of a wedge shape, therefore it ought to provide a great positive pressure seal. The clean part is much more for the little control buttons where you can change configurations from the camera underwater. We'll enter into the very best configurations we found while using the camera underwater.

Once they the housing is nice to fifteen meters or around 33 ft, they aren't laying. Not too i was attempting to ton the housing or anything, but at 60 ft your camera isn't operational since the pressure is compressing the controls and shuts your camera off. At 40 ft, you can find your camera to operate, try not to rely on altering the configurations. At 35 ft your camera appears to operate fine with the features and configurations operational. For a lot of divers, this is too restricting because much of your dives is going to be much deeper than 35 ft. However, bear in mind the red-colored/yellow/orange finish from the spectrum is strained out beyond this depth too.

Your camera and housing combination are very well matched up and simple to function. Using the obvious plastic housing, it is simple to begin to see the configurations around the camera. Like the majority of digital shows certain angles tend to be more hard to see, however with the correct shading and position things are visible around the 2 inch screen. Despite the fact that you are able to alter the lens focal length from wide position to zoom, we stored the setting on wide position for that dives throughout the entire process due to water. Take this into account for those underwater photography stay near to your subject and employ the largest position feasible for better results.

For that still shots, your camera was looking for the strobe to fireplace with every shot. This melts away your batteries faster, but when the topic is closer than 8 ft, you will have better imaging and color. The greatest results were our macro shots where we set your camera for 'close-up' and used the expensive. While using the movie mode, you will be impressed using the sharpness from the images, try not to expect top quality audio. The housing must absorb many of the seem because the underwater audio is moderate. Most likely, you'll edit with a few musical background anyway.

The colour balance would be a little off. We did alter the configurations based on the instructions and also the outcome was the color balance would be a little around the blue side for topside shots. It was no problem for that underwater shots because the greenish tint from the water was removed. The majority of the color balance issues can be treated within the editing phase.

The claim to be 12. mega-pixels is a touch misleading since this is the 'hardware interpolation' not the 'image resolution' that is 5. mega-pixels. Overall, i was not disappointed in the standard outcomes of the greater pictures. However, a few of the shots demonstrated trembling camera despite the built-in expensive. Which means that the shutter does adjust for the quantity of light, so you need to squeeze the cameral and hold it as being still as you possibly can.

We used an 8 GB Sdcard because we likely to take lots of video coupled with ample storage for 2 dives. We did not make use of the provided USB cable because we make use of a card readers to the laptop after which support the memory to some portable hard disk. The energy source uses two triple A Alkaline Batteries, therefore it is no problem getting new batteries for every dive. We did not make use of the 'voice recorder' feature, but from your underwater video experience, it wouldn't be suggested within the underwater housing.

Let's focus on the conclusion suggestions about this gear: If you are planning to consider your underwater imaging seriously, save your valuable money for any more comprehensive system. This may be an ideal outfit for any sport diver that has shared their diving knowledge about their buddies and family. For under 0 (prices vary from -100), excluding your SD Memory or batteries, it's a value. The SVP cameras can be found at some dive shops and therefore are directly promoted from the 3 importers online. The following "compact digitalInch underwater clothes, with no exterior strobe, will likely cost over 0. So, if you are planning on holiday and considering getting your personal camera outfit for shallow water, this is actually the answer. Obviously, for approximately for the most part diving centers you can rent a camera with everything else incorporated. Sometimes the option is difficult, however, you can know much more from somebody who has examined the SVP out. It's a great still and camcorder outfit for approximately water and underwater to around 35 ft.

Specifications in the Manufacturer:

· Waterproof design: You shouldn't be afraid to consider this Aqua camera towards the water-even underwater. The waterproof situation will safeguard this camera to depths of 30 ft.

· Very sleek and small camera design

· Takes Pictures, Video, and Audio Clips with it's built-in microphone.

· Resolution sensor provides you with a choice of taking: 5 Mega pixel, 3.1 Mega pixel, 1.3 Mega pixel, and 300K Resolution Images.

· Takes, 12 and eight Mega pixel pictures through hardware interpolation.

· Movie mode: Whenever a picture is not enough, shoot 640 x 480 (VGA) video, with seem, at 30 fps.

· 2." LCD screen: This compact color screen has lots of space that will help you compose your shots.

· Zoom: The 8x zoom grows pixels to fill the frame together with your favorite area of the image.

· Adjustable Expensive

· Self timer: 2/10/10+2 Seconds

· Tripod Abilities

· Onboard Whitened Balance

· Waterproof to 50ft

· 16MP Built-in Memory, Takes SD Cards to grow memory.

· Energy Source: 2 triple A Batteries

· Time Stamp Options: Off/ Date only/ Time and date

· Includes software, hookup via USB 1.1

· Video/TV out supported- Via video out cable.

· Automatic energy mode- Prolong batteries existence by auto-switching your camera energy off.

· Auto Expensive, Auto Expensive with Red-colored-eye reduction, Slow Sync, Fill-in Expensive, Expensive off, Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Tungsten, Sunset, Custom etc...

· MULTI-LINGUAL INTERFACE 8 Menu Languages including: British, Portuguese, French, German, The spanish language, Italian, T. Chinese, and S. Chinese.

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