{"id":116,"date":"2005-12-14T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T19:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/delmar-surf-housing\/"},"modified":"2005-12-14T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T19:15:01","slug":"delmar-surf-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/delmar-surf-housing.html","title":{"rendered":"Del Mar Surf Camera Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**As of August 2012, I am using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delmarhousings.com\/\">Delmar Housing Projects<\/a> for my Canon 5D Mark III.  The lens I prefer to use is the 16-35 f\/2.8 II.  The first couple sessions with this rig: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/newport-surf-photos.html\">first<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/sunrise-color-or-i-met-jack-mccoy-today.html\">second<\/a>.**<\/p>\n<p>**As of September 2006, I am using an even newer, better, more killer housing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delmarhousings.com\/\">Delmar Housing Projects<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/fire-breathing-dragon.html\">Get The Info<\/a>.**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=17679\" title=\"Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/ponto-surf-carlsbad-wave-ocean-photograph-17679-235571.jpg\" alt=\"Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad\" title=\"Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=17679\">17679<\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=ponto&amp;city=carlsbad&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Ponto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=carlsbad&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Carlsbad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comments from 12\/14\/2005, about my first Delmar housing: I just purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delmarhousings.com\/\">Delmar Surf Housing<\/a> and it is a lot of fun.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delmarhousings.com\/\">Erik Hjermstad<\/a> makes Delmar housings for still and video cameras.  I didn&#8217;t know squat about shooting surf and starting asking questions about what gear surf shooters use to photograph in the water.  Eventually I came across Erik&#8217;s website upon recommendation from one of his customers in Hawaii.  When I discovered that his shop is only about 10 miles south of me, in the Del Mar area, it was a nobrainer to go meet him and check out his work.  Erik&#8217;s an easy-going guy and eager to get people into the water shooting images with his custom housings.  For him it&#8217;s all about sharing the stoke.   His housings are so popular worldwide that he&#8217;s got more orders than he can fill, and he&#8217;s taking steps to expand his manufacturing.   The latest generation of digital cameras, such as the Canon 20D, are perfectly suited for this sort of photography.  They have great auto-exposure and auto-focus, are small enough that a camera and housing weigh only a few pounds, offer high enough frame rates to make action photography possible, and they don&#8217;t break the bank.   Since he creates each housing himself, it is a simple matter for Erik to add custom controls upon request &#8212; I had him add a switch to control manual\/autofocus on my Canon 10-22 lens.  Here are a few photos I shot on the very first time out in the water with Erik&#8217;s housing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=14794\" title=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, w...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/ponto-surf-carlsbad-wave-ocean-image-14794-280793.jpg\" alt=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter\" title=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=14794\">14794<\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=ponto&amp;city=carlsbad&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Ponto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=carlsbad&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Carlsbad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=14789\" title=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, w...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/ponto-surf-carlsbad-wave-ocean-picture-14789-149849.jpg\" alt=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter\" title=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=14789\">14789<\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=ponto&amp;city=carlsbad&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Ponto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=carlsbad&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Carlsbad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=14790\" title=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, w...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/ponto-surf-carlsbad-wave-ocean-image-14790-896037.jpg\" alt=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter\" title=\"Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Breaking wave, South Carlsbad State Beach, Ponto, morning, winter.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=14790\">14790<\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=ponto&amp;city=carlsbad&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Ponto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=carlsbad&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Carlsbad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These were shot about 2 minutes from where I live, north of the Ponto jetties in South Carlsbad, on a glassy and sunny winter morning.  I was pleased, not bad for a beginner.  It&#8217;s a little project of mine to accumulate nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/waves_photos.html\">photos of waves<\/a> (with perhaps a few shots of surfers thrown in).  So as I gather them, they will go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/waves_photos.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**As of August 2012, I am using Delmar Housing Projects for my Canon 5D Mark III. The lens I prefer to use is the 16-35 f\/2.8 II. The first couple sessions with this rig: first and second.** **As of September 2006, I am using an even newer, better, more killer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[324],"class_list":{"0":"post-116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surf","7":"tag-surf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}