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What Customers Say... |
"After three years of using a Gates housing, I have absolutely no complaints. It's indestructible! I have grown to hate lugging it around, but the payoff is the huge lens. If you have a huge lens, you need to have a heavy housing. The heavy housing also has the distinct advantage over a lightweight one in being a more stable platform so that even bouncing around on the surface, the camera held below is relatively stable, essential in filming humpback whales from the surface." Andrew Stevenson
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'I've been using Gates housings
for quite a few years now. As a marine biologist/environmental surveyor
as well as an underwater photographer, my housings tend to have a
tougher life than most. The same housing I used for filming great
whites off Guadalupe has also worked as a remote sled camera, bouncing
across the seabed 80m down in the Persian Gulf for tens of kilometers,
drifting through deep Scottish sea lochs and over rocky reefs as a
drop-camera. Its been snagged on bouylines from lobster pots, come
fast under rocky ledges. I've had umbilicals snap, protective frames
badly dented, but the Gates housing still works perfectly - albeit
with a few dings on the paintwork after many hundresd of hours underwater.
I always carry a backup housing, just in case, but so far I've never
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“We love the housing because it is durable and reliable. And, the external video monitor makes all the difference in the world – now I can follow the action!”
Michel Lippitsch, PCRF cameraman.
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Abilgail Ailing of Planetary Coral Reef Foundation performing research in Papua New Guinea. The Planetary Coral Reef Foundation |
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Don Czech on
the Great Barrier Reef with his Gates PC housing. |
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I been diving
with numerous camera equipment over the past 12 years and currently
using a Gates HC1/A1U housing for the past 2 years with a Sony HVR A1E
HD camera:
I can honestly say I had some fantastic footage recently from the Similan Islands in Thailand and Christmas 07 in the Maldives Looking forward to my next venture in Philippines in May 08 David York |
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