GoPro tips for diving?

Question

What are the best tips for using a GoPro diving? Do you use or recommend a red filter?

Answer 1

Be sure it has a lanyard and floats incase you accidently let go of it. We have an upside down video of its assent to the surface from 80 ft.

Answer 2

I think the biggest thing that I have learned is to understand it's limitations. Go pros are awesome cameras but as you go deeper they really need assistance to create great videos. One of the things that I found helpful is a set up from flip I have a hero 4  and use a flip for attachment. The attachment has a magnifier as well as different lenses for depths. As you go deeper different colors in the spectrum fade out. These lenses along with a good light kit to get the color you're looking for with your movies

Answer 3

always have it attached to you somehow, via landyard or something.

As for filters, it depends on the type of water you will dive. if the water is very blue/cyan then take a red filter, if the water is more of a green, take a magenta filter. it does help but it isn't 'perfect'. If you have a good editing software, you can usually do a decent job of color correcting even if you didn't use a filter to help.

also, pack extra batteries. i usually have a dead batter by the end of the first dive, and need to switch it out before the next dive.

Answer 4

Here are two websites that I have looked into before, they have great tips and can tell you what to buy.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/video/tips-and-solutions/tips-and-tools-scuba-diving-gopro-hero4

http://www.uwphotographyguide.com/guide-to-gopro-underwater-video

Answer 5

Get the underwater housing and the floating grip handle! :)