Underwater Video Lights are crucial for videographers that want to retain colour and brightness in their footage. Even though modern cameras are becoming more and more light sensitive there are still environments that light can't penetrate such as wrecks, caves or through murky waters.
Video lights are designed to provide a smooth, even illumination which ordinary dive lights are unable to achieve. As a bonus, video lights can also be used for still photography but will not be able to produce the same level of brightness of a similarly sized strobe, nor will it prevent motion blur like a strobe can.
Any focus light can be used for video and vice versa. The difference is that while a small, low-lumen light with a narrow beam angle can be used as a focus light, Video Lights need to have a wider beam angle and high lumen power. The reason is that video shooters want to achieve a wide swath of light that evenly illuminates the foreground or main subject in the image (instead of seeing two "headlights" in every shot).
Divers interested in buying a single light that can double as both focus and video light will want to find a powerful light with several power settings and wide beam angle. This brings the best of both worlds.
The Scuba Doctor is your friendly resource for Underwater Video Lights. The best combination of quality services, vast selection, knowledgeable staff and competitive pricing. We are one of the largest dive retailers and mail order suppliers in Australia of new Scuba Gear and Underwater Video Lights.
Shore Dive | Shore access
Depth: 1 m (3.28 ft) to 6 m (20 ft)
Level: Open Water and beyond.
Middle Brighton Baths is a dive to view what's on the outside of the Middle Brighton Sea Baths, just to the south of Middle Brighton Pier, opposite where Normanby Road intersects with the Esplanade on the eastern side of Port Phillip.
Park and gear up as close to the entry/exit point as possible as there is a very gentle and paved ramp leading right into the water from the car park.
This site is a good, safe controlled training area excellent for divers just getting into the sport.
Best dived midweek, or as a night dive, when the car parking is easier.
Weather Required: The northern breakwater of the adjacent marina coupled with the shallow water to the north should offer protection from northerly winds. This site should also be diveable in easterlies and south easterlies and possibly north westerlies.
See WillyWeather (Brighton) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.
Facilities: Public toilets open during the day near the cafe. A parking fee is required at all times of the year including public holidays. Parking ticket machine also accepts credit cards. There is good lighting at night.
The current Middle Brighton Sea Baths date from 1936. The Corporation Baths built on this site in 1881 were destroyed in a storm on the 30th November 1934 and the ruins removed.
The last remaining one of its kind down the eastern side of Port Phillip. Once, there were sea baths like this all along Port Phillip, including the Brighton Beach Baths near South Road, but one by one, they fell into disuse or fell apart in storms.
Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. This truly ancient Country includes parts of Port Phillip, from the Werribee River in the north-west, down to Wilson's Promontory in the south-east, including the Mornington Peninsula, French Island and Phillip Island, plus Western Port. We wish to acknowledge the Boon Wurrung as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Bunjil the Creator Spirit of this beautiful land, who travels as an eagle, and Waarn, who protects the waterways and travels as a crow, and thank them for continuing to watch over this Country today and beyond.
Middle Brighton Baths Location Map
Latitude: 37° 54.633′ S (37.910545° S / 37° 54′ 37.96″ S)
Longitude: 144° 59.108′ E (144.98514° E / 144° 59′ 6.5″ E)
Datum: WGS84 |
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Added: 2021-02-01 11:38:26 GMT, Last updated: 2022-03-22 14:55:28 GMT
Source: Google Earth
Nearest Neighbour: Middle Brighton Pier, 319 m, bearing 309°, NW
Brighton, Bayside, Port Phillip.
Depth: 1 to 6 m.
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