What's your water camera setup, cost, etc.?

Go pro 4 (80$) is all I need. Don't film me self just others and da waves. I'm from da south and you talk funny O Barry.

 

To youz guys, we do.
To us guys, you do.
But....I am originally from wayyy south of where you are. When I first got here, "me no spicking inglich".

 

How to learn a new language by immersion: sleep with a "dictionary".

 

My son in SF did that. He actually called his translator his "Spanish Dictionary." It seemed to work for him.

 

Yeah it works. Unfortunately (or fortunately) you learn all the dirty stuff first.

I'm thinking about learning Japanese or Russian next.

 

Smart son.

 

Being married for thirty years, all I can speak is English with a southern twang!

 

Twang?? Buy and learn banjo. That is what I would do......

 

Married to Blaster's sister?

 

Yep... So is Blaster...

And Barry, No Sh!t.. I was talking to my wife about buying a banjo a couple of days ago!!! Seriously, I have a handful of guitars, a bass, a ukulele, but no banjo...

 

When you come looking for me, don't bring a weapon bring the banjo--we can play that song from Deliverance (I do play guitar, but never as well as I would like to).

 

When I went to college I realized I didn't speak English. I grew up on an island around gullah people so naturally talked as they did. Had to translate for my old man from upstate NY. When he spoke the whole room would get quiet because there was damn yankee in the room.lol. Now probably way more yankees here than southerners here. Love to hear the old Charlestoners speak. It' is an accent unto it's own.

 

Heres my setup, for anyones whos interested:

I picked up a Sony a6300 for a great deal at $700. It's a great all-around camera and its very affordable for what it has to offer. The new A6500 runs about $1400. I'd reccommend shopping around for a camera that fits your required specs. My first camera was a Nikon and i absolutely loved it.

For housing, i use HCWhousings. The owner makes custom housings for any camera for a quoted price. Mine was around $800. Really great company, if you're looking for a water housing shoot him an email. hcwhousings@gmail.com www.hcwhousings.com

Surf photography will forever be a hobby to me. There is some money to be made, but i don't think anyone could make a living being an east coast surf photographer. If you can, more power to ya.

 

Hawky reppin hard these days. Goode jobbe amigo.

 

The late great Mickie McCarthy posted a tutorial on his facebook page about a year ago showing his process to build a water housing for a DSLR. The process was pretty simple and doable if you are any good with fiberglass and resin and the process could be adapted for any camera. Might be worth a search.

 

Found one of his posts. You can look at the pictures and figure out the rest.

https://www.facebook.com/mickey.mccarthy1/media_set?set=a.4014320470091.160349.1043698084&type=3

 

This thread piqued my interest, I'm in the market for a new camera for the wife. Problem is, I don't understand most of what's being discussed because of the terminology. So help me out here fellers, and try to dumb it down for me a bit.

What I'm looking for: Something in the range of $500 or less with a fairly speedy motor drive for sequence shooting, and a quality zoom because the surf generally breaks very far out with a lot of soup in between.

Strong, simple and quality for rank amateurs. Nothing frilly or fancy

 

Buy her a Kodak Brownie.
Is that dumbed down enough?? lol

 

O abuelito

no mames buey

 

I have used both the Sony superzoom and the Canon superzoom and gotten respectable results. Here are links. I think the Canon has a slight edge on burst shooting.

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Cyber-S...qid=1492563499&sr=1-1&keywords=sony+superzoom

https://www.amazon.com/Canon-Powers...id=1492564014&sr=1-1&keywords=canon+superzoom


Here are some pictures I took using the Sony.......and mine is the previous model version.