SEAPRO
A NEW CONCEPT IN UNDERWATER VIDEO HOUSINGS
DESIGNED BY DIVERS FOR DIVERS
WHY SEAPRO?
Greenaway Marine have been building professional underwater housings for still, motion picture and TV cameras for
over 20 years. This mass of production knowledge has been passed into the production of our own range of compact
video housings.
The SEAPRO housing system is adaptable in the long and short term, from the simple SP1 system up to the fully comprehensive
SP8 system.
CONSTRUCTION
Aluminium tube body with optical grade perspex end plates.
All controls sealed by quad x 'o' rings, Sealed for long life.
Video light mounting bar with handles each side for easy control.
Depth rating - 85 metres. (Greater depth rating by quotation).
The main outer body is aircraft grade aluminium tube, not cast ali composite. Impact damage may dent or scratch
the ends or side but the tube remains undamaged. The front port is recessed for protection, with the rear entry
plate held in place by catches which exert 40lbs pull to compress the 'o' ring for failsafe operation for many
years.
The optical grade front port allows the use of various wide angle and telephoto attachments on the SP3 type housing
SPECIAL OPTOLITE UNDERWATER CORRECTOR
The Optolite corrector used in the SP5/SP6 housings, we feel , is the finest underwater corrector available, its
usability for underwater and surface use is unique.
Full technical information is available on the comparison sheet which covers flat, dome and Optolite port.
Greenaway Marine have the facilities to build housings for equipment for specialist tasks, please send your specification
to us for a quote.
SEAPRO and OPTOLITE are trade marks of Greenaway Marine
SPECIFICATION
SP1 Housing for Sony TR series or similar video camera, with recessed front port and controls for Power On / Off
and Video Run.
SP2 Additional controls, i.e. zoom, white balance, manual / auto focus, etc.
SP3 As SP1 but with high quality .42 or .5 wide angle lens, zoom control.
SP4 Addition of Optolite Corrected Port to SP1 / 2 / 3 housing.
SP5 Seapro housing c/w Power On / Off, Video Run, Zoom Control, Image Expander and Optolite Port. (Our most popular
housing)
SP6 Seapro housing as above but instead of single tube with camera entry from rear, this is a 2 x tube model, built
in 2 halves. This model is designed for making the housing easier to transport around the world. Can be separated
and each half put in separate suitcases!
SP7 Seapro housing as SP5 but where the Video Camera has a monitor screen to
open, we fit into a SeaproHousing which enables the screen to open from 75
to 90 degrees. Fitted with the optolite Port.
(NOW OUR MOST POPULAR HOUSING).
SP8 Video outputs to surface, including 50 metres cable and drum. For supply to monitor or VTR on surface.
SP9 As SP7 fitted with Water Detector and Hydrophone.
SP10 Scientific equipment housing, custom built for any purposes required.
Additional Accessories
SP21 Hydrophone, fitted for 'in water' sound.
SP22 Water Detector fitted with LED signal.
SP23 Viewfinder Expander for video camera, fitted.
SP24 Green Water Colour Correction Filter.
SP25 Blue Water Colour Correction Filter.
SP26 Both SP24 and SP25.
SP27 'O' ring sets (spare).
SP28 Syringe Silicone Grease.
SP29 Video light shoe mount.
Note: Nearly every type of video camera available can be housed by our Seapro housings.
SEAPRO is the trademark of
Greenaway Marine, Swindon, United Kingdom
SEAPRO
Dear Enquirer
Thank you for your valued enquiry for our range of products. We specialise in the design and manufacture of housings
for underwater use.
We can house any video camera in the world and our catalogue shows our range of models from a simple flat port
model with two controls costing only £695 up to our more detailed models with more controls, image magnifier,
hydrophone and our unique "OPTOLITE PORT".
Flat ports, as on most housings, means the camera records 25% less angle of view when used underwater and every
diver wants wide angle. The "OPTOLITE", designed exclusively by ourselves brings the wide angle back.
It also means that your pictures will be perfectly sharp from infinity, right up to the lens, a perfect result
for underwater use. This optic also gives perfectly sharp images above water and half in and half out as you have
seen most recently on your TV underwater films.
Our housings, manufactured from high grade aluminium tube, precision machined, anodised and then powder coated
for long life, must make them the most robust housings in the world. We regularly supply professional photographers,
television companies and the film industry, customers who demand the best.
Lighting equipment, umbilical for surface monitoring, accessories and filters are additional and desirable items
available for you to consider.
If you would like advice or any help in choosing the most suitable housing for your video camera, please telephone
us. We are only too pleased to help in any way possible.
If we haven't your model video camera here, we use your camera and build a housing to your specification. There
are now hundreds of video cameras on the market and we can house both new and older models. The video can be delivered
to our showroom or sent to us by registered post or if you prefer, pack it carefully and we can arrange for our
courier service to collect personally from your address. U.K, Mainland only. Extra cost is £20, including
full transit insurance.
Purchases accepted by cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa.
Detailed order form enclosed for your convenience.
We look forward to hearing from you and assure you of our desire to be of service.
Gerald Greenaway
Underwater Sales Division
Greenaway Marine
P.S. If you wish to visit, we are available for business from 9.00 am to 5.30 pm Monday to Friday.
Saturdays by appointment only. We are closed from 12.30 to 2.00 pm.
SEAPRO
UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY
STILLS AND VIDEO
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You are a diver and you would like to record some of the wonderful sights we all see during our diving.
The first thought is to buy a simple still camera, possibly a disposable one, and perhaps a simple housing to enable
you to take it diving. We've all done it and the results are probably appalling! Don't be disappointed, underwater
still photography is one of the most difficult subjects for a still camera that there is. To do it successfully,
you've got to invest in a good quality camera, an expensive housing with good underwater optics, and a powerful
strobe. With lots of practise, you will start to get reasonable pictures.
Video however, is something different. Any reasonable quality video camera with a wide angle lens fitted into the
Seapro housing with one of our corrected optics, Optolite Port, will give you superb results the first time you
use it! Yes, the beauty of video is it's so simple. Nearly all video cameras today have autofocus, auto exposure,
auto white balance, and it's just a matter of pointing the camera in the right direction and pressing the record
button. Video tape is very cheap to use and of course like any video, you can wipe it and use it over and over
again.
The other advantage of using video, apart from it being simple to use and comparatively cheap once you've got all
your equipment, is that you can enjoy the dive. With still photography, you tend to swim around trying to decide,
"Shall I take that picture, shall I take that picture...." and you tend to go through a dive continually
trying to decide what to photograph.
With your video it's so cheap on tape that in lots of dives, you can just set the camera on it's maximum wide angle,
hold the housing in front of you and look over the top of it using our top handle as an horizon to keep the picture
reasonably level and enjoy the dive as you would without having to bother about videoing. You only tend to look
through the viewfinder when you wish to take some close-ups and of course you want to centralise the image in your
picture.
Zooming underwater is a very small portion of your underwater filming as generally you are swimming and moving
hence unless something very exciting comes along, there really isn't any point in zooming. It's better to keep
the camera in it's wide angle form, swim forward to your subject rather than try and zoom to bring the subject
to you. It's generally very much more difficult to hold the housing still underwater than it is with your camera
in air.
Because our Optolite Port will give you correct focus from infinity up to 1 cm in front of the taking lens, then
you don't need to worry about pictures being out of focus. You can go right up to a subject knowing that everything
will be pin sharp. The Optolite Port really does solve all your focusing problems as there will be no hunting of
the camera focus to find a point of focus as on some models, everything will stay in focus the whole time.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO TAKE GOOD UNDERWATER VIDEO?
Colour Correction Filters for green water and blue water.
What's the difference?
If you don't use a filter and you dive in blue water, that means where there is coral, then everything will be
a general blue colour. Put a blue water filter on, which happens to be red, and your colour balance will immediately
be corrected. You will get all the reds, the yellows and an increased contrast for the general subject.
Any other water where it is not coral, then use a green water filter which happens to be a mauve colour, and this
will have the same effect. Because video cameras are very light sensitive and will automatically compensate for
the filter, you will be able to video in very poor light conditions. Your own eyesight will consider subjects in
a very dim, unrecordable light but you will be remarkably surprised when you play back your video and find that
the camera has recorded far more than you can see.
DO I NEED UNDERWATER LIGHTING?
When you get very low contrast conditions, fairly deep, wreck diving, or close-ups in very poor light then of course
underwater lighting brings back all the colour correctly. Good underwater lighting can be expensive. We know that
unless you purchase something powerful and with wide angle lamps, it really is a waste of time filming with a lamp
not powerful enough.
Our Seapro range have 12v 50w Tungsten Halogen bulbs of wide angle form, around 65°, hence using a pair of
these on their flexible arms on your housing is like handling a pair of 12v car headlamps! They will give you a
superb colour balance and illumination for your underwater subject.
We trust this short resume on underwater video photography will help you to make a decision to use underwater video
as what a superb record it makes of the exciting underwater world.
SEAPRO
Greenaway Marine offer the following notes to new underwater video photographers who perhaps do not possess a video
camera yet and are about to purchase and are confused by the vast choice.
We have "no axe to grind" in suggesting
models from the vast range available. When you go to a video shop, they tend to have agencies for particular models
hence, they will always tell you that their model is the best!!
Video Cameras for Underwater Use
The prime concern for selection of a camera for
underwater use is a zoom lens that gives you good wide angle in it's normal form. The reason being that as you
are probably aware, when a video camera is taken underwater and footage is shot through a flat port, you lose 25%
of your angle of view due to refraction of the water. The same effect as your face mask. If you've got a camera
which does not have a very wide angle lens in air then, with a flat port on a housing, you are not going to get
a very wide angle of view underwater. Due to visibility underwater, you need to get in as much width of the picture
as you possibly can. Our Optolite Port brings back into the same angle underwater as you get in air but it will
not increase the angle of view of the lens.
With the current range of cameras, you can now
obtain a general range with 3.9mm, 4.0mm, 4.5mm focal length at wide angle settings. These sizes are ideal. A few
years ago and you will find if you have an older video camera, that the minimum focal length on wide angle was
perhaps 6 or 7mm and that meant buying an additional wide angle converter to use a camera. Really these are no
longer needed if you have a camera with a 3.9mm lens behind an Optolite Port.
Video 8, Hi 8, VHS-C, Super-VHS-C and DVC (Digital)
The first range of those formats when played
back through your normal television set, you will see very little difference in the result. Yes, play back through
a high resolution monitor and the Hi 8 and the Super-VHS-C and Digital will be both the sharpest result. Go for
Digital to be able to use with your computer. Absolutely superb results and of course the ability to take stills
off at a realistic price.
Ask anyone in the street to name a video camera?
The first word they will say is "Sony". Sony is a big name but they only have about 20% of the video
market. Canon, Panasonic, JVC, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung to name a few, are all very good manufacturers and there
are pros and cons for using either system.
I hope the foregoing comments give you a basic
idea of which way you wish to go.
Video Cameras
To repeat ourselves, we have "no axe to
grind" on choice but certain cameras fit into underwater housings we manufacture more easily than others hence,
the following are a few suggestions which fulfil all the criteria we've mentioned.
SEAPRO U.K. is one of the Greenaway Group
Monitor Screens
The side opening monitor screen now available
on a considerable number of cameras, we are quite often able to build a housing with monitor screen fully open
or partially. The Sony PC series of 1 - 100 models we can give you the screen fully open and on quite a number
of models the monitor screen can be open at around 45°, which is still very easily viewable through the back
of our housings. Please talk to us to request that system and we can explain if we can do this for you without
having to provide a very large diameter tube. The extra cost is just a nominal charge.
Digital Cameras
Yes, you want to do some serious video making
for sale or television and film work. We recommend the Panasonic NV DX110 and GS 120/200, Sony TRV950 and Canon
XM2. All 3CCD models. These are compact cameras in size hence the underwater housing is easier to handle and we
have already found them extremely popular world wide. The Sony DCR-VX1000, VX2000 is of course another professional
model digital video camera producing superb results. To compensate for the viewfinder, we produce a magnifier that
fits to the viewfinder of the camera to enhance underwater viewing. We build housings for all models.
We hope the foregoing comments may assist in
choosing a video camera for your underwater photography and for general use and of course we have not mentioned
every model. If there is a camera you have already or a model you fancy buying, then please telephone us and we
can certainly advise if we can build a housing for you to give good operation and to make sure you get good underwater
video results.
SEAPRO
R E A D Y M A D E S E A P R O H O U S I N G S
U. K. L I S T I N G
PRICE LIST........
PRICES INC VAT
SP1 Seapro housing for any video camera or still digital camera if
possible. Single tube with recessed front, flat port and controls
for power ON/OFF + video run …………………………………………….. £ 795.00
SP2 Extra controls, zoom, white balance, manual/auto
focus, etc. (each) …………………………………………………………….. £ 55.00
(Add control price to housing price).
SP2 A Addition control to an existing
Housing................................................£70. ea
SP4 Addition of Optolite Corrected Port to SP1 housing ………………….. £ 395.00
(Where possible)
SP5 Seapro housing c/w controls for power ON/OFF, video run, zoom
and OPTOLITE PORT …………………………………………………….... £ 975.00
SP6 Seapro housing as above but instead of single tube with camera
entry from rear, this is a 2 x tube model, built in 2 halves.
This model is designed for making the housing easier to transport
around the world.
Can be separated and each half put in separate suitcases! …………..... £ 1175.00
SP7 Seapro housing as SP5 but where video camera has a monitor
screen to open, we fit into a tube with screen open as far as
possible, usually 75°. We can advise …………………………………… £ 1250.00
(THIS OUR MOST
POPULAR HOUSING )
SP7A As SP7 but 2 x tube model for carrying around the world ………..£ 1350.00
SP8 Housing as SP5 (Customer's Wide Angle Lens fitted).
Non standard Port ………………………………………………………..£ 1150.00
SP8 A Custom
Built 2-part as SP7, with Extreme wide angle lens
(approx 110
degrees) fittings for most cameras/special optolite port;.....£1795.00
SP9 Video outputs to surface, including 50m cable & drum for supply
to monitor or VTR on surface ……………………………………………£ 465.00
SP10 Scientific equipment housing, custom built for any purposes
required ……………………………………………………………………Quotation
SP11 Special deep water housing (Mixed Gas divers).
150 or 200 metres …………………………………………………… From £ 1950.00
SP12 Colour monitor and housing to fit any video housing.
Includes all leads and sockets to mount unit on any
manufacturers housing …………………………………………………….. £ 1200
HOUSINGS FOR THE
COMPACT DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS
SONY, PANASONIC,JVC, SANYO
ETC ALL MODELS
STANDARD
SPECIFICATION - 100 metres depth rating
SEAPRO Underwater Housing to fit any of the new Compact Digital cameras.
Control for POWER ON/OFF
Control for VIDEO RUN
Control for ZOOM
SP81 Price with FLAT PORT …………......................... £ 795.00
SP82 Price with OPTOLITE PORT …........................... £ 1250.00
SP83 Price with
optolite port (monitor screen closed,
fits in 7"
tube....complete..................................................£1150.00
SP21 Hydrophone, fitted for "in water" sound …………………………………………£ 95.00
SP26 Pair of Green Water and Blue Water Correction Filters ……………………….. £ 70.00
SP26B Blue Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter
…... £ 84.00
SP26G Green Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter
.... £ 84.00
SP27 'O' Ring Sets (spare) ………………………………………………………………£ 10.00
SP28 Silicone grease ……………………………………………………………………. £ 3.50
WL1 Great White Lite ………………………………………………………………….. £ 495.00
WL2 Carrying Handle ……………………………………………………………………£ 32.00
WL15 Video Housing Fitting Adapter with flexible arms and bases ………………….. £
58.00
WL14 2-hour Automatic Charger ………………………………………………………. £ 65.00
OTHER WHITE LITE SPARES, SEE DETAILS ON LAMP PAGE.
HOUSINGS FOR THE
COMPACT DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS
Panasonic NV-AND GS SERIES
STANDARD SPECIFICATION - 100 metres depth rating.
SEAPRO Underwater Housing to fit any of the new Compact Digital Cameras.
Control for POWER ON/OFF
Control for POWER RUN Camera fits with or without optional .75 wide angle
Control for ZOOM supplementary lens.
SP86 Price with FLAT PORT …………………………………………… £ 795.00 ALL PRICES
SP87 Price with OPTOLITE PORT …………………………………….. £ 975.00 INCL VAT
SP88 Price with OPTOLITE PORT with monitor screen open to
approx 45° - 60° (depending on camera model) …………….. £ 1250.00
"GREAT WHITE
LITE" Outfit
· 12 volt - 50 watt. Rechargeable, video filming lamp complete with 60° wide
angle bulb,
electronic switching and fitted with the latest Ne/Hi batteries (no memory
problems).
· Lamp burns in air or underwater.
· Bulb can be changed to make unit a very powerful standard diving lamp.
· Sold as a package complete with carrying handle, video housing adapter with
flexible
· arms and bases, 2-hour automatic charger.
PACKAGE PRICE ………………………….. £ 600.00
SP9 Video outputs to surface, including 50m cable and drum for supply to
monitor or VTR surface ……………………………………………………………… £ 465.00
SP21 Hydrophone, fitted for "in water" sound ……………………………………… £ 95.00
SP26 Pair of Green Water and Blue Water Filters ………………………………….. £ 70.00
SP26B Blue Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm
diameter…. £ 84.00
SP26G Green Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter
. £ 84.00
SP27 'O' Ring sets (spare) ……………………………………………………………. £ 10.00
SP28 Silicone grease ………………………………………………………………….. £ 3.50
ADDITIONAL ACCESSORIES "GREAT WHITE LITE"
WL1..."GREAT WHITE LITE" only.........................................£495.00
WL2....Carrying handle...............................................................£35.00
WL15....Video fitting adaptor with flexible arms
and bases.....£49.00
Chargers...
WL 14 5 hour charger, fully auto shut down. Then
switches to trickle..........£65.00
WL 16 As above but three hour charge! Both chargers
240/110 volt..............£85.00
"GREAT WHITE LITE" Outfit
· 12 volt - 50 watt. Rechargeable, video filming lamp complete with 60° wide angle bulb,
electronic switching and fitted with the latest Ne/Hi batteries (no memory problems).
· Lamp burns in air or underwater.
· Bulb can be changed to make unit a very powerful standard diving lamp.
· Sold as a package complete with carrying handle, video housing adapter with flexible
· arms and bases, 2-hour automatic charger.
PACKAGE PRICE ………………………….. £ 600.00
SP9 Video outputs to surface, including 50m cable and drum for supply to
monitor or VTR surface ……………………………………………………………… £ 465.00
SP21 Hydrophone, fitted for "in water" sound ……………………………………… £ 95.00
SP26 Pair of Green Water and Blue Water Filters ………………………………….. £ 70.00
SP26B Blue Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter…. £ 84.00
SP26G Green Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter . £ 84.00
SP27 'O' Ring sets (spare) ……………………………………………………………. £ 10.00
SP28 Silicone grease ………………………………………………………………….. £ 3.50
3 CCD PANASONIC and
SONY HOUSINGS
SP12 SEAPRO
COLOUR VIDEO MONITOR - TFT Model
To enable the underwater video photographer to obtain a better image of exactly
the area camera "sees", especially in close up shots, we can provide the above
unit for virtually any housing. It comes complete with a high quality colour
monitor, battery pack holder, switch for ON/OFF, connector and lead for housing.
Total price (incl VAT) …. £ 1200.00
If you wish us to custom fit to your present housing, then the charge for
socket, lead and internal wiring to your camera is £85.00 Plus return carriage
charge of your housing and monitor, cost £15.00. (Unless you collect from our
premises). For customers who order a monitor at the time of ordering a complete
Seapro housing then the socket and internal wiring charge is waived.
PACKING & CARRIAGE DELIVERY U.K …. £ 15.00
Europe (Road 3-4 days) …. £ 40.00. Europe (24 hours) …. £ 60.00
World Export by Quotation
E & 0 E
STANDARD SPECIFICATION: Depth Rating 85 metres
SEAPRO Underwater Housing to fit Panasonic Video Cameras with zoom lenses.
Control for POWER ON/OFF Overall Size: 7" diameter tube
Control for VIDEO RUN 7½" long
Control for ZOOM VERY COMPACT HOUSING
Fitted with the unique "OPTOLITE PORT"
ADDITIONAL ACCESSORIES
SPV1/ 3B / 4 Seapro Lamp Outfit with 2 Seapro heads on flexible arms and high output
dual battery pack and 4 hour charger. Battery pack mounts in pony pack ……… £ 1060.00
SP9 Video outputs to surface, including 50m cable & drum for supply to
monitor or VTR on surface ……………………………………………………………......... £ 465.00
SP21 Hydrophone, fitted for "in-water" sound (Commercial Grade Unit) ……………….. £ 95.00
SP22 Water Detector fitted with LED signal ……………………………………………….£ 30.00
SP24 Green Water Colour Correction Filter ……………………………………………….£ 40.00
SP25 Blue Water Colour Correction Filter …………………………………………………£ 40.00
SP26 Both SP24 and SP25 …………………………………………………………………. £ 70.00
SP26B Blue Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter………. £ 84.00
SP26G Green Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter ……. £ 84.00
SP27 'O' Ring Sets (spare) ………………………………………………………………… £ 10.00
SP28 Silicone Grease ………………………………………………………………………. £ 3.50
SP29 Video Light Shoe Mount, each ………………………………………………………. £ 15.00
SP32 Carrying bag, made from waterproof nylon with a high density foam lining,
webbing handles and non corrosive delrin zip ………………………………………............ £ 35.00
SP34 Custom built, foam lined air transit case for above …………………………………. £ 155.00
(To hold u/w camera housing, lighting kit etc.)
R E A D Y M A D E S E A P R O H O U S I N G
S
SP1 Housings for any camera: (Flat port & control On/Off/Video Run)
Sony TR Series, JVC, Canon, Samsung, etc. …………………………… £ 795.00
Panasonic RX Series, VX Series, SX Series ……………………………. £ 795.00
SP5 Housings for any camera: (Optolite port)
Sony TR Series. JVC, Canon, Samsung, etc. …………………………… £ 975.00
Panasonic RX Series, VX Series, SX Series ……………………………. £ 975.00
SP7 Housings for any camera: (Where monitor screen to open)
Sony TR Series, JVC, Canon, Samsung, etc. …………………………… £ 1250.00
Panasonic RX Series, VX Series, SX Series ……………………………. £ 1250.00
NOTE
· We keep "completed" housings for Model SP1 in stock to fit almost any camera.
· If a customer very quickly requires their video camera fitted into this model, we customise
and fit the controls and camera platform in a day or so.
· Other model housings have to be custom built, delivery normally 1-3 weeks.
A D D I T I O N A L A C C E S S O R I E S
WL1 / 2 / 14 / 15 Seapro "GREAT WHITE LITE" Outfit.
· 12 volt - 50 watt. Rechargeable, video filming lamp complete with 60° wide angle bulb,
electronic switching and fitted with the latest Ne/Hi batteries (no memory problems).
· Lamp burns in air or underwater.
· Bulb can be changed to make unit a very powerful standard diving lamp.
· Sold as package , video housing adapter with flexible
arms and bases, 2-hour automatic charger.
PACKAGE PRICE ………………………… £ 600.00
SP21 Hydrophone, fitted for "in water" sound ……………………………………… …. £ 95.00
SP22 Water Detector fitted with LED signal ……………………………………………. £ 30.00
SP23 Viewfinder Expander for video camera, fitted …………………………………….. £ 75.00
SP24 Green Water Colour Correction Filter …………………………………………….. £ 40.00
SP25 Blue Water Colour Correction Filter ………………………………………………. £ 40.00
SP26 Both SP24 and SP25 …………………………………………………………………£ 70.00
SP26B Blue Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter………£ 84.00
SP26G Green Water Filter for fitting on outside of Optolite Port, 102mm diameter ……£ 84.00
SP27 'O' Ring Sets (spare)………………………………………………………………... £ 10.00
SP28 Silicone Grease………………………………………………………………………£ 3.50
SP29 Video Light Shoe Mount, each………………………………………………… ….. £ 15.50
SP30 Custom built Mount for Kowalski Lamps, flexible arms to fit Seapro housing ….. £ 89.00
SP32 Carrying bag. Seapro carrying bags are made from waterproof nylon with a
high density foam lining, webbing handles and non corrosive delrin zip ………............... £ 35.00
SP33 Optolite Port Cap (spare)…………………………………………………………… £ 3.50
SP12 SEAPRO COLOUR VIDEO MONITOR - TFT Model
To enable the underwater video photographer to obtain a better image of exactly the area camera "sees",
especially in close up shots, we can provide the above unit for virtually any housing. It comes complete with a
high quality colour monitor, battery pack holder, switch for ON/OFF, connector and lead for housing.
Total price (incl VAT) …. £ 945.00
If you wish us to custom fit to your present housing, then the charge for socket, lead and internal wiring to your
camera is £85.00 Plus return carriage charge of your housing and monitor, cost £15.00. (Unless you
collect from our premises). For customers who order a monitor at the time of ordering a complete Seapro housing
then the socket and internal wiring charge is waived.
PACKING & CARRIAGE DELIVERY U.K …. £ 15.00
Europe (Road 3-4 days) …. £ 40.00. Europe (24 hours) …. £ 60.00
World Export by Quotation
E & 0 E
SP12 SEAPRO COLOUR VIDEO MONITOR
SEAPRO
SEAPRO SP9
The conversion to your housing, to take a video output to the surface, expands the capability of your video system.
It enables you to view what is being videoed by the diver when he is say 20 metres down and you will have a picture
on your video monitor which you can record on to your VCR.
For pool training and safety your surface video output will let you see it all. Your video housing takes on a new
use, i.e. you can lower the housing complete with camera down on a line to the sea bed, to see if you are over
the wreck, without needing to dive. You get an immediate check on visibility and know if you are in the right location
before kitting up and diving.
The cable drum keeps the 50 metres of cable ready for instant use with the Bulgin splash proof connector taking
the video signal to your video monitor or VCR.
PICTURE 1. Separate components. SEAPRO housing, metres cable and drum. Drum to monitor/VCR.
PICTURE 2. SEAPRO housing connected to cable and drum, surface
connection in place ready to connect to monitor or VCR.
SEAPRO
SEAPRO
SOUND (HYDROPHONE)
A Hydrophone is a device for picking up sound in water. Everything from your
bubbles to dolphin whales 'clicks' and submarine solar 'pings'.
The Seapro Hydrophone fits into the front recessed part of your video housing.
The internal lead plugs into the microphone socket on your video camera and when
you press 'record' you get live underwater sound.
Film your dive boat and hear the propeller, cutting and powering its way through
the water. Most divers wear a hood for protection against the cold which also
cuts out sound. The Seapro Hydrophone will bring another dimension to your video
recordings.
Two hydrophones are available.
The most
popular is the Seapro SP21, it fits the standard Sony camcorders and is powered
from the video camera, it automatically cuts out the video camera microphone
when connected.
The Seapro Hydrophone can be fitted to most makes of video camera housing.
SPECIFICATION SEAPRO VIDEO HOUSING for
PANASONIC DIGITAL CAMERAS
CONTROLS Marine grade stainless steel glands with Quad X 'O' rings. Stainless
steel shaft with oversize control knobs. Mechanical controls to enable on sight
service with minimal tools. Mechanical control unaffected by moisture,
condensation, temperature or humidity.
BODY Aircraft grade aluminium with nitrile 'O' rings on all serving surfaces.
OPTICAL PORT FITTED Optolite Port fitted to give the ability to video in air, in
water or half in and half out. Housing can be used with or without wide angle
lens, space has been left for colour correction filter.
Additional video links to surface an be included if specified when ordering.
Flat ports, as on most housings, means the camera records 25% less angle of view
when used underwater and every diver wants wide angle. When a flat port is used
underwater, the angle of view is reduced by 25% and you only have one point of
focus. The SEAPRO housing is fitted with an "OPTOLITE PORT" which has a flat
front and you have one focus setting for in air and underwater, it can therefore
be used half in and half out of the water. You focus on the image created inside
the OPTOLITE PORT, thereby putting you in focus over a very great range. The
autofocus capability of the camera will only need slight adjustment to keep in
focus from macro to infinity, as the OPTOLITE PORT has a vast depth of focus.
This enables the diver to take wide angle close-ups with creatures sitting on
the corrector and the divers in focus in the background. The OPTOLITE PORT is
the finest underwater corrector available.DEPTH RATING 100 metres
SEAPRO
HOUSINGS
FOR THE COMPACT DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS
Sony JVC
Panasonic - all models Sharp
Canon Series - all models
STANDARD SPECIFICATION - 100 metres depth rating
SEAPRO Underwater Housing to fit any of the new Compact Digital cameras.
Control for POWER ON/OFF
Control for VIDEO RUN
Control for ZOOM
SEAPRO
MINIATURE HOUSING
for the
PANASONIC GS10,12,22,etc
Due to the extreme compactness and digital performance of these video cameras, we are able to offer a very small
housing with no frills that the owner can easily take diving anywhere in the world. The video camera fits into
a 5" diameter tube and is just 7" long.
SP71 Standard Specification - 100 metres depth rating.
Control for POWER ON/OFF
Control for POWER RUN
Supplied with Flat Port only
Please note all our controls to the interior
of the housings are manual and protected by Quad X 'O' rings. A well tried and reliable design. We do not use 'press
button' or electronic controls due to the unreliability of these when used in damp or humid conditions, such as
divers experience. The housing can be used, with or without additional wide angle lens. Colour Correction filters
available specially formulated for the best possible colours when videoing underwater in tropical or temperate
waters.
Small and compact size.
Fits in 130mm tube, 180mm tube.
SEAPRO OPTOLITE CORRECTED PORT
The SEAPRO OPTOLITE PORT is exclusive to Greenaway Marine.
This underwater optical corrector enables the video camera to be used above
water, below water, even half in and half out of water.
The depth of focus is outstanding, being from a few millimetres in front of the
Optolite port to infinity in most cases. You can zoom in air or underwater, it
increases edge definition by producing a sharper image. When used with Hi 8 or
Super VHS video cameras you have broadcast lookalike picture quality.
HOW DO THE FLAT PORT, DOME PORT AND OPTOLITE PORTS COMPARE?
FLAT PORT You need to focus for all shots, modern auto focus video cameras do
this very well.
SEAPRO use flat ports for this reason.
Your image will fall off and have barrel distortion at very wide angle lens
settings, but underwater you rarely have straight lines to show this distortion,
plus most of the time the depth of field hides the fall off. If you use high
quality wide angle lenses the problem becomes less noticeable.
You do, however, have your angle of view reduced by 25% when using a flat port
and you have no depth of focus.
You can produce a half in half out shot, but the water air interface will be out
of focus, producing an unsightly line across your image.
DOME PORT The main use of the dome port is to restore the angle of view of the
lens when underwater. It acts as a clear window when on the surface. However,
when underwater it produces an apparent image that you must focus on to produce
a sharp picture. This means you must focus at approximately 12" underwater. If
you move the housing out of water in to the air, the camera will still be
focused at the apparent image at approximately 12". This will mean the in air
picture will be out of focus. Modern video cameras will re-focus to give a sharp
image, this usually loses the shot you were after when coming from underwater to
the surface.
Some housing manufacturers fit a +4 diopter close up lens between the dome and
the wide angle lens, this produces a good image underwater but will always be
out of focus in air.
To produce a half in and half out shot you must use a 8" diameter dome. As most
video camera housings are only 7" in diameter this is impractical and expensive.
Dome ports also have two further drawbacks, they are exposed, protruding from
the main housing body, just waiting to be scratched or knocked and they are also
very susceptible to flare when looking towards the surface.
The Optolite
port overcomes all these problems.
SEAPRO
OPTOLITE PORT
This port has a flat front and is therefore less likely to get damaged. You have
one focus setting for in air and underwater, it can therefore be used half in
half out. It is smaller than a dome, if you are correcting for a wide angle
lens, hence less exposed also reducing the chances of flare underwater.
You may need a slight focus adjustment for extreme macro shots, but with most
video cameras the auto focus will set itself once.
The Optolite Port has vast depth of focus, you are able to produce wide angle
close ups even with creatures sitting on the corrector and sun in focus on the
surface!
If you require the highest optical quality the SEAPRO Optolite Port is the one
to go for, the flat port is the next best compromise.
Optolite is a specially formulated plastic originally produced as a substitute
for lenses in high quality optical instruments. It is now being used by
Greenaway Marine exclusively in the production of the Optolite Corrected Port.
The units are mounted into an aircraft grade aluminium mount which has been
anodised for maximum protection.
Ports can be interchangeable if required, at extra cost. Most are fitted as a
permanent unit.
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SEAPRO WATER DETECTOR
The SEAPRO Water Detector enlightens you to the smallest ingress of water.
Video cameras DO NOT LIKE WATER.
You mount the sensor probes in the lowest part of your video camera housing with the warning light, an 8 mm diameter
red LED, near your viewfinder or clearly visible inside the housing.
The red LED will glow even if you moisten your finger and touch the sensor.
Fresh or salt water will produce a very bright light easily visible even in tropical waters.
The unit is powered by a lithium battery which will last for about 10 years, the Seapro Water Detector only uses
power when activated, it can be left in the housing for constant protection.
The Seapro Water Detector is easily fitted by double sided sticky pads and the sensor and wire held in position
by sticky backed wire grips, supplied with the unit.
The cost is minimal compared with replacing a flooded video or still camera.
Specification: Indicator: 8 mm red light emitting diode.
Power: Lithium battery (10 year shelf life).
Tube Dimensions: 28 mm diameter. 55 mm length.
SEAPRO
COLOUR CORRECTION FILTERS
Greenaway
Marine have specially designed and manufactured COLOUR CORRECTING FILTERS, for
blue water and green water for available light video and still photography.
With sunlight and a SEAPRO filter you capture the natural colours of the oceans
corals, fish and other aquatic life in the sea, lakes, streams and rivers. The
filters neutralise the underwater blue or green cast, so that the true colours
which already exist can be recorded on film or video.
The filters come in the following sizes:
37 mm Fits Sony TR series.
43 mm Fits Panasonic range.
46 mm Fits a large range of video cameras. SHEET FILTERS
49 mm Check your video or still camera for filter sizes.
52 mm As above. 4½" square (11.5cm)
55 mm As above. UNMOUNTED
58 mm Nikonos 35 mm, 28 mm and 80 mm lenses.
62 mm Nikon etc.
67 mm Nikonos 20 mm lens.
72 mm Pro video cameras.
77 mm Pro video cameras, also medium format cameras.
USING THE
COLOUR CORRECTION FILTERS
You must first decide the type of water you are diving in, as a guide British,
Atlantic and Mediterranean waters will require the Green Water Correction
Filter, i.e. the water where you will not find coral reefs. Most areas of the
world where you will find coral reef formation will require the Blue Water
Correction Filter. It is always worth checking, this is only a rough guide.
The filters screw directly into the filter mount on the camera lens, in the case
of the Nikonos camera, you should fit the filter when underwater, or ask for the
filter to be supplied with a pressure compensation hole drilled.
Water acts a continuous filter, the deeper you go underwater the more colour is
lost to this natural filtering system, red, oranges and the yellows are quickly
lost from your visible spectrum. The SEAPRO Filters will help to return those
colours lost, by first filtering out the blue or green predominant cast and then
enhancing the colours lost, giving you the true natural colours.
SEAPRO
YOU'VE SEEN THE REST, NOW SEE THE BEST!
NEW - THE SEAPRO "GREAT WHITE LITE"
HAS ARRIVED!
SEAPRO
"GREAT WHITE LITE"
The Seapro "GREAT WHITE LITE" is the ultimate universal
diving light:
1. VIDEO FILMING LIGHT / DIVING LIGHT
The lamp can be fitted with 20 watt, 50 watt, bulbs with both wide beam and spot
configurations.
SPECIAL - 50 watt White Lite near daylight colour temperature bulbs. This wide
beam lamp is the ultimate in lighting balance underwater.
Near daylight colour temperature bulbs with wide angle even spread means a
bright clear image for video work.
The Seapro Great White Lite is all aluminium construction, fitted with a
borosilicate glass front which enables you to film in air then go straight
underwater with your lights burning. Most other lamps would melt the perspex or
polycarbonate front at the wattage we use.
2. CHANGE TO - 20 watt SPOT FOR WRECK DIVING, GIVING HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT FOR
YOUR FULL DIVE
Built to be used in the harshest of environments, the Great White Lite is the
state of the art lighting system using the latest technology in rechargeable Ne-Ha
rechargeable batteries with high output but without discharge memory problems.
These batteries are able to take rapid charge and discharge, also size is kept
to a minimum.
BULB BURN TIME
20 watt 2 hours plus
50 watt 50 minutes
FULLY CHARGED BATTERY PACK.
SEAPRO
Why should you purchase a SEAPRO housing?
Every Seapro housing is built in our own
factory in the UK using the best quality materials we can find suitable for the product. Virtually the whole housing
is made from the basic raw materials hence we can monitor the quality of our product right through it's manufacture
and testing.
We care about the quality of our product and use the most modern technology and design to upgrade our product when
necessary.
We have been using our own designed and well tried parts manufactured by ourselves in order that we have total
control over the quality. We build up to quality standards and not down to a price.
We don't cut costs by using inferior materials, all parts used are the finest marine grade stainless steel to resist
corrosion as our housings are designed to be non disposable. Yes, they can be recycled because quite often when
the video camera becomes worn out, we are often able to modify the controls in the housing to fit a new camera.
Our unique Optolite Port is precision cut by our engineers to mate with focal length of the video camera being
used in the housing. This means that you will get best optical quality with our housing. This is another reason
why you get a perfect image from infinity to around 1 cm away from the front of the port, all in perfect focus.
This optic performs above or below the water or even half in or half out. You won't miss any of those special shots
when you film behind our Optolite Port.
Our service is exceptional. We react immediately if you ever need after sales service.
That's why "Video Camera" magazine awarded us Best Buy in their review of underwater video housings.
10/10 for Protection! 10/10 Value for Money!
We hope your choice will be Seapro.