Have to catch up with some news. Let’s start with the RX100. Nauticam released the new RX100 underwater housing. Specifications:
* Depth Rating: 100m
* 144mm x 113mm x 102mm
* Weight: 0.77kg (1.7 lbs.)
There is also an Amazon Lighning deal on the Sony WX10 (Click here) if you need a cheap and good compact camera.
More RX100 stuff:
RX100 first look review at Digitalcamerareview. The RX100 remains the most sold Sony camera at Amazon US (click here to see the live ranking). RX100 price search links: [shopcountry 13014]. RX100 accessory roundup:
Cases: [shoplink 13347 ebay]Official Sony LCJ-RXA case[/shoplink], [shoplink 13344 ebay]Gariz case[/shoplink], [shoplink 13345 ebay]more leather case[/shoplink].
Batteries: [shoplink 13346 ebay]NP-BX1 Battery[/shoplink].
Speicals tuff: [shoplink 13343 ebay]Multi-Coated LENS ARMOR UV[/shoplink].
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And now back to rumor work….
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Wow, that looks pretty sweet!
But will it still fit in my pocket underwater? 😉
I don’t see anything on pricing. A quick google search of “underwater housing sony rx100” reveals we’re talking about $1,100 !
It appears there’s been another product also available from Recsea:
http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-scuba-ocean-news/recsea-releases-housing-for-sony-rx100-compact/
And then add strobes… video monitor… Oy! Me want.
Where is Sony version of GO PRO?
This looks really sweet. I wonder about price too but if it’s reasonable (~$200) this would be a good value. Nice to see quality 3rd party support behind this cam.
Didn’t see my above post, did you?
These housings are precision machined pieces and custom made for each model – buttons on the housing match and interface with the camera controls. Think about how much it would cost to design and produce such a custom item and sell a limited number — and make a profit.
Yeah, this is hot, because under water one does need quality, but usually not an interchangeable lens camera 😉
@wonderbread: Good luck with that. All the Nauticam housings I’ve looked at (NEX 5, GH2, etc.) start at USD $1K and go much higher in price than that. Nonetheless, I’m looking seriously at the RX100 as my next UW camera because the housing is so small, almost Nikonos-like. And it occurs to me that UW cameras are one instance where built-in WiFi (which the RX100 lacks) might prove to be very useful if the data stored on the camera’s memory card could be transferred off the card without one having to open the housing (not that you’d prefer to interrupt a dive session for any length of time to transfer a lot of images or video this way instead of just quickly slapping an empty new card into the camera).
Mmmm…
Naughtycam…
These lens announcements along with the rumoured specs of the A99 is certainly helping Sony up the ladder and eating into the other two Nikon and Canon margins coupled with the unrival Sony Nex system makes Nikon CSC toy like and Canon CSC 2 little 2 late.