DEMA 2007: Sea Tool / Fisheye
The Sea Tool booth was manned by Kenji Ohmura (Fisheye/Sea Tool) Ryan Canon (Reef Photo & Video) and Richard Perry (DigitalDiver.net).
The Sea
Tool housings are compact, ergonomic and uniquely designed. You can change
memory cards, batteries, or lenses without removing the camera from the housing
tray. The port release system is more like that of a camera than a housing. Sea
Tool also had a Canon 40D prototype on display, and has plans
for a D300 and D3
housing as well. This is the first time we are seeing a production version of
the Sea Tool D200 housing as well. The only other time we had an opportunity to
report on it was at the Scuba Show 2007, when their D200 housing was still in
prototype phase. I caught the Sea Tool booth just as the show was ending so I
wasn’t able to enquire about and of the video housings (Sea tool makes housings
for several Sony video cameras including the HC-7) or the port adaptors that I
heard so much about (these adaptors allow you to use other manufacturers’ ports
on Sea Tool housing bodies).
The housings are slick, look out for the relatively new brand.
