I know there’s a lot of work that goes into making an underwater housing, but when yours more than the new top-of-the-line GoPro, maybe you could have put a bit more work into keeping costs down.
These go down to 100m and are carefully engineered so that they don’t break and ruin your $1000 camera. A gopro goes down to 60m, is a lot smaller and only has one button.
But then again both 60m and 100m down are more than 90% of people are going to take a camera anyway and I see your point that a gopro also has electronics and a lens and still costs less.
And the resale on underwater houses is pretty terrible, unless you are fortunate to want to sell a housing for a popular camera that someone else wants.
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Hopefully Nauticam releases a housing soon!
They already did: http://fotografit.eu/products/159-compact—nauticam/1641-nauticam-housing-for-panasonicnbsplumixnbspdmc-lx100-camera/
Woohoo perfect timing!
I know there’s a lot of work that goes into making an underwater housing, but when yours more than the new top-of-the-line GoPro, maybe you could have put a bit more work into keeping costs down.
These go down to 100m and are carefully engineered so that they don’t break and ruin your $1000 camera. A gopro goes down to 60m, is a lot smaller and only has one button.
But then again both 60m and 100m down are more than 90% of people are going to take a camera anyway and I see your point that a gopro also has electronics and a lens and still costs less.
And the resale on underwater houses is pretty terrible, unless you are fortunate to want to sell a housing for a popular camera that someone else wants.
Turn the LX100 into a GoPro!!! yay
Hopefully Panasonic releases their own housing soon!