Scuba Diving in Hurghada Egypt with HD GoPro Hero

Scuba Diving in Hurghada Egypt with HD GoPro Hero March 2010... excellent diving and not bad snorkeling either - next time i'll learn how to adjust the exposure to get more light and colours in !!!

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• egypt dive video
• hd go pro
• underwater hd gopro camera
• skuba
• scuba dive
• hurghurda
• hurghada

[formgren]

sweet. bring back memorys.. im thinking of bying this camera and good to see that it worked well with diving:) headmounted?

[southerntrails]

@formgren hi, brilliant camera, so durable, amazing above water but a real extra bonus that it's waterproof to 60m as well! Im just holding it for this footage, stays pretty stable as im sure you can imagine the resistance from water stops you being able to move too erratically (like my normal above water filmings) ;)

[DJTarga]

You bring an HD camera, and then you don't upload it in HD? O_O

[southerntrails]

@DJTarga yh true, but I found that when recording in 1080 it tends to error a lot which is fine if you can look, check, then restart it but I do a lot of motorbike racing and there is nothing worse then getting off to find it stopped recording 10mins into it, so now I only record on 480 and have had no issues at all...

[itstony45]

@southerntrails have you had any issues with the 720p @60fps? I recently bought one, and most of my recordings are going to involve some crazy slow downs. but once I deploy I'm using it in strictly r2 or r4.

[southerntrails]

Hi @itstony45, great camera all round but I do find using either of the HD settings that (720/1080) that it can error quite a lot (it may be due to the speed of the SD card I have).. So I tend to now mostly use it on WVGA as it will record all the way through the battery life with no issues...

[GrimGrizzly13]

@621bigboy well now there is a special kit called blur fix that has come out to fix the blurriness and the color problems

[doctoredeparis]

@southerntrails Hi there its amazing, is the only go pro that is water proof???

[TehFoxit]

@southerntrails Hey, so if you get errors with your gopro stopping after a while, or even a few seconds, it might be because your SD card is too slow (it has to be class 6 or above, if it isn't it might stop) But that should help you out :)

[pelge50]

@southerntrails Hey I got the GoPro HD Hero2, I just wondered if there was any settings or tips u could give me about filming underwater.. :)

[621bigboy]

so honestly how is this camera for scuba diving when theres maby only 10ft maby 15ft viz. but i do have a very good light

[itstony45]

@southerntrails so far most of my test videos have come out pretty well even on r3 and r5. maybe it is the SD card, I broke the bank on mine lol. the only thing is the video appears glitchy in Windows Movie Maker, but once I save the video (using the "for high definition playback" settings) the glitches seem to disappear. of course, I havent been able to get Twixor for my slo motion yet, so there may be glitches that I can't see.

[formgren]

@southerntrails lol yea I have films here on youtube also from diving . but with the canon G9 camera,,, i saw you can get a better lins for the gopro for diving... and now the gopro hd2 is coming out sith better wideangel and 120fps and better pic in low light... its a by for me :)