DEMA 2006: Top Dawg Underwater Housings

Posted Nov 9th 2006 8:51AM by Willy Volk
Filed under: Events, Photography, Video Cameras, Other, DEMA 2006

I was also intrigued with Top Dawg's "universal" housings for video cameras. Although perhaps not as sleek as Light & Motion's housings, they're still appealing, as they're more affordable and allow users to switch among most Sony and Canon cameras.

And from the rear:

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1. I think Top Dawg must buy their housings from Light and Motion or be part of the company. Those housing looking exactly like the lower end L&M housings.

I had a universal housing they are great until you get some experience and shot the video camera on anything but auto.

Posted at 11:59AM on Nov 9th 2006 by Bill Reals

2. Bill, you are correct with the Top Dawg housings. They are made by L & M but I wouldn't put the "low end" tag on them. They are exactly the same systems. L & M focuses on "camera specific" housings while the universal housings are great for the end user that doesn't want to change housings every time they get a different camera, but you do loose some functionality with the universal housings like the inability to turn the camera on and off to save camera battery life, turn it on and leave it on.

Posted at 10:55AM on Nov 10th 2006 by J. Randy Griffin

3. Yup, I had to make the move to a camera specific housing because I needed the ability to set my manual white balance on my camera, as I changed depth or area on my dives.

Being able to manually control white balance is almost mandatory now on the new new HD cameras.

Don't get me wrong, some people would call a Corvette a "lower end" sports car if they were used to driving a Ferrari.

Posted at 12:22PM on Nov 12th 2006 by Bill Reals

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