A shipwreck in Big Tub Harbour, Tobermory, Ontario, photographed with the camera and lens partially submerged in the Aquapac underwater camera bag.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about some inexpensive options for trying out underwater photography. While playing around with iPhone cases and underwater point and shoot cameras is a lot of fun and well, better than nothing, it won't take you long to start wishing for the control and quality that you can only get with your “big camera”.
Enter the Aquapac Waterproof DSLR Case, an underwater bag for your DSLR camera (they make a smaller one for mirrorless cameras, too). There are a number of underwater bags on the market, priced from suspiciously inexpensive to confidence inspiring, and the Aquapac falls somewhere in the middle. I wrote to a few manufacturers of underwater pouches to request samples for review and I have to say that the speed and enthusiasm with which Aquapac responded really did decrease my apprehension about placing my precious camera in their bag. None of the other companies even replied to my email, but this company clearly believed in their product and they were not the least bit concerned that my camera would drown the first time I used it, resulting in a negative review.
Of course, that was just my perception of the situation, but I did feel better about trying the bag for the first time, so if it was just clever marketing and PR, then it worked on me.
A shipwreck in Tobermory, ON
Fun in the lake with the Aquapac camera bag
The Grotto in Bruce Peninsula National Park, Tobermory, ON
