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Aug 14, 1999, 11:49 AM
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I've used a USVH housing for about 18 months now, and I quite like it. I started with a Hi8 camera but now use a TRV900. It's hard to beat the price and Warren, the owner/operator of USVH, is very easy to deal with. It's a plastic housing of course, and given it's a general TR-format camera housing there is some extra air space inside it, so you have to weight it. I don't find this to be a problem.
A huge plus IMHO is the entire back is transparent, so it's very easy to check o-rings and see if you have a leak -- one trip I pulled a very large bonehead maneuver and failed to screw down the front port completely, I still had it loosely attached from the plane ride. The housing therefore leaked rather slowly, but because I could see inside the housing I was able to detect this situation before any damage was done to the camera. I've seen two different people flood their video cameras, one was a Gates housing and the other a old Sea & Sea, in both cases an o-ring seal was compromised and there was no way to tell until the camera died. Too late.
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