{"id":14,"date":"2015-11-26T19:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:20:09","slug":"underwater-fun-in-the-cominos-blue-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Underwater fun in the Comino&#8217;s Blue Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another photography related post I am going to describe how I made an improvised underwater housing for my Kodak Zx1 pocket video camera. It cost me less than \u20ac10 to make and, although it is not going to give serious filmmakers any sleepless nights, it did allow me to get some fun shots of the kids snorkeling in Comino\u2019s Blue Lagoon. Check out my first underwater video \u2026..<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_56511\"  width=\"474\" height=\"267\"  data-origwidth=\"474\" data-origheight=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CkJoDKUOinE?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" data-vol=\"50\"  title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>My Kodak Zx1 camera is weatherproof\/splashproof but certainly not designed to be submerged in water. I bought a rectangular lunchbox (the sort with 0-ring type seals) which was just big enough to house my Kodak. The plastic bottom of the box was translucent but not properly transparent so I cut a hole and used Araldite epoxy resin to glue on a piece of clear plastic from the top of a Pringles snack tube. I figured that even though it was not \u2018optical glass\u2019, it would probably give me the same sort of view as peering through a steamed up snorkel mask. I was right.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lunchboxcam Front\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2551\/3859600729_36bb110e26_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lunchboxcam Front\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2551\/3859600729_36bb110e26_z.jpg\" alt=\"Lunchboxcam Front\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wedged the camera into the box with a dishwashing sponge, figuring that in the (highly probable) event of a leak, the sponge would absort some of the sea water and give me enough time to get the camera out of the water. As it turned out I needn\u2019t have worried as the housing proved pretty watertight.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"100_0094\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2454\/3859556685_c263ee4b70_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"100_0094\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2454\/3859556685_c263ee4b70_z.jpg\" alt=\"100_0094\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the main drawbacks of my DIY housing was the fact that I had absolutely no access to the camera controls. I had to open the housing to start and stop recording. Another difficulty was with the viewfinder which was very tricky to see underwater. As you can see in the video, my framing was rather hit and miss!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another photography related post I am going to describe how I made an improvised underwater housing for my Kodak Zx1 pocket video camera. It cost me less than \u20ac10 to make and, although it is not going to give serious filmmakers any sleepless nights, it did allow me to get some fun shots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/?p=14\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Underwater fun in the Comino&#8217;s Blue Lagoon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malta.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}