Thanks Jay,
The sportspack was the reason I kept my HC3. I have had it for about a year and a half and Ive used it in pools, Hawaii, now the beach. It's awesome.

I'm going to use a wide angle next time.

sick shots, but be careful not to use too wide of a lens. If you look at my video with of water shots, you can see that often times, even though I was only 5-10 feet away from my friends, they looked really far away, and made the shots look like crap.

THanks Matt,

I wanted to try to see if I could get some surf video and my friends were happy to help. I used to go to the Wedge alot but now we usually hit creek.

I'm in a wet suit of some sort year round. This day I was fullsuited but some guys were skinning it.

Dude, water shots of the Wedge would be insane. I'm sure it would be a little spooky trying to get inside the barrel shots though when that place is firing. It gets dangerous!

Thanks, it came out better than expected.

Thanks Brad.

It's fun even on a small day.

Thanks, You have some great vids.

I may have to take you up on that. It's not often I'm infront of the cam.

Thanks

Thanks

Thanks. I have seen mounts for the front of a surf board.

It took me about 6 months to actually try it out. I was scared to put my expensive HD cam in it. Now I use it when ever I can.

Thanks Dan

There are trade offs for both. The Sony does good with vibrations like driving and POV stuff, has the cheap sportspack, and I think is more reliable in my case.

The HV20 has awesome picture quality, better auto focus, but sucks for driving type and POV videos in my videos at least. I had to send mine to Canon once and still if goes into a wierd mode sometimes and doesent want to play the videos and just has a blue screen.

So both have their hi lights and I still use both. My HC3 has been my daylight timelapse machine since I got the intervalmeter for it.

The cheapest water housing for the HV20 at B&H is $479 and a special order item.

I have read of people buying the sony sportspack for the hv20 and hit record and close it up.

Thanks
I know what you mean about stoping to get video especially because it won't be of yourself.