There are in the market other also. Some of them have lights like Sartek, Noctural lights, Tecdiving

I made post from Snake River Prototyping flat lens fix, although there are now similar ones like Backscatter, the snake river is still the one of the most interesting ones. I currently own two snake river flat ports and have been very happy with them. Actually I participated to the Eilat Red Sea Underwater competition only using GoPro cameras. Well, I did not won anything, I was still very happy to the quality of the pictures that I got from there. In all those pictures I used Snake River Prototyping BlurFix flat port with attached SWCY or CY filters. The color filters makes big difference in underwater because otherwise the it will easily clip the red from the video material totally and no post prosessing will get that back.

What I find interesting in the the tray as the called is there are so many possibilities to attach the camera. The only worry I have is that as the camera is attached front of the handles is similar as you would hold the camera with stick, even with both hands. I hope that I will have a change to test it. I would like to make some comparison then between the rigs that I have and theirs. For travellers like me this will be at least very interesting because of the simple design and as it very light(1.7 lbs/0.8kg) and that is including the camera.

The introductory price is 129.99 $, and it seems that the final price will be 150$

Here is their example video using the tray and some color filters

Information from the tray

As for the camera itself seems to be very nice and the new LCD display is much better. It basically shows all the same things than the back display if you have one. The menu structure is actually changed a bit, still haven’t decided is it better or worse. I haven’t tested so much the camera in low light situation but I need to do it. The modes have been improved a lot as there are more modes now that just video and time-lapse mode.

I will continue testing it.

Our team shooed this video in one day and edited it in second day.

I had my underwater housing with me of course and used that for those underwater shots. Still in our team case the most time consuming was the figure out some idea for the movie, and of course the idea changed a lot during the workshop. The best option would have been to have ready made script that we only need to shoot it and decide more of the artistic side.
Then we would had missed totally the the whole process of making the movie. That’s why I will be concentrating on the stories more from now on.

The place was of course excellent had got really nice memories from that. Still I have to say that the biggest
gain from that was the people. Nothing compares to that of having whole group of similar people with the same passion.

I have had very busy with work so not much doing blog, let’s try do more of that.

Anyway I had change to make small 3D video during my workshop with Philip Bloom, Nino Leitner and
Sebastian Wiegärtner.

The camera still seems to be skipping some frames in timelapse mode so it means that it goes out of sync in longer timelapses.
I had to manually remove these extra frames to get them somehow sync. Still there remains a few frames that are not in sync between left and right.

The conversion to 3D footage is not easiest to use, and sometimes crashes, it still relative easy.

This film was edited using Adobe Premiere CS5 and I actually was using the Cineform plugin that comes with the Neo SW.

In the end, very nice housing, but lacking underwater possibility because of the out of focus problem that is actually now in the 3D housing as well.

This video was originally started by wanting to participate Moby’s music video competition but they didn’t accept this. The idea of behind this was to express feelings of leaving my social cat at home always.

It started about year ago but this year I figured out that I have some kind of allergy for the cat so I had to let him go. I’m currently more and more away from home so I trust he is now better in his new home.

When Moby added his original version of "Wait for me" song to the MobyGratis, I decided to re-edit it and upload it. I love the song. Most of the clips are shooed year ago, only one this year.

Maybe get some pointers to make it better.

Music is licenced from MobyGratis.com and it’s the song called "Wait For Me"

Scuba diving was actually very nice in the Greece. The equipment’s were very good shape and the water was clear. Although there are not so much live in the sea as like red sea has but at least comparing to Finland, well almost everything is better There are parts of my video from it. They are filmed with GoPro HD heroes, I’m starting to love these small cameras.

In the city there are lot of cultural activities but somehow I didn’t end up watching those, because somehow I have learn that where ever I go. I’m more interested of the people and what they do. Athens is a big city, people are very busy. Day to day jumping from bus to metro is not for me in long term but for a while it’s ok.

Nowadays it seems that where ever I go, I end up shooting pictures and video. They are different way of expressing oneself and don’t exclude each other.

You can find my portfolio from Athens here.

And what comes to video, It’s filmed mostly with GoPro cameras, but there are used Canon 5Dmk2 with Canon 100/2.8L Is macro as well. You just can’t do all with GoPro cameras.