{"id":2303,"date":"2014-09-17T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2014-09-17T00:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T22:41:02","slug":"new-water-housing-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/new-water-housing-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"New water housing testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I acquired a new water housing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2304\" src=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot140.jpg\" alt=\"shot1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot140.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot140-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>Matt Bromley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I headed down to Kommetjie to test it out in some mellow but fun wave. I was not bothered about setting out to capture good surfing images and the poor lighting and chilled waves were a non-issue for me. This was about how the new housing performed in the water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot237.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2305\" src=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot237.jpg\" alt=\"shot2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot237.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot237-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>Mikey February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the first test, I swam with my 10mm fisheye in a rather large dome port. The new housing is so much easier to swim with! However the trigger will take some getting used to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2306\" src=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot333.jpg\" alt=\"shot3\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot333.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot333-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>Ethan Pentz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the second test (on anther day) I used the long lens zoom port loaded with my 70-200mm 2.8 lens. This made the housing big, heavy and difficult to shoot with but the possibilities with this set up are endless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2307\" src=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot426.jpg\" alt=\"shot4\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot426.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shot426-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>Ford van Jaarsveldt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am so looking forward to some good waves soon and capturing some epic surf images with my new and improved setup.<\/p>\n<p>Galler of test images:<\/p>\n<p><div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-2332-1\">\n\n    \t<div class=\"slideshowlink\">\n        <a 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