The Official GoPro HERO3 Housing is a fantastic bit of kit, now with a distortion free flat lens for underwater filming as standard.
But the glass lens cover is completely clear so has no fixes for colour balancing.
To make the most of your footage underwater, you will want to fit one of these red lens filters, to help
restore the colour balance, and make the footage a lot more vibrant!
A red filter helps when filming underwater because red is the first wavelength of light to disappear under water.
Often when filming underwater with a GoPro too much blue and green are present and the colors of bright coral
and stunning fish are lost.
You spent enough money on that tropical diving holiday, so these filters offer great value for money to allow you to
re-live and show your aquatic adventures just how you saw them in the first place!
The Red filter is designed mainly for use in tropical and blue seawater, and it will will work best when filming in depths of 10 to 65 feet.
It is not recommended to use a Red filter in less than 10 feet of water because there is still enough red light present,
so you will end up with everything looking slightly too red! Below 65 feet you should use an artificial light source due to the lack of natural
light at that depth. Artificial lights do not need filtering in the same way as natural light.
When filming in the more green coloured seas around Canada and the UK, a Magenta freshwater filter will actually be more suited
to colour correcting your footage, than this Red filter.
(For green/freshwater, you should take a look at the Magenta HERO3 Filter below)
This internally fitted filter is absolutely perfect for those who dive down to 65 feet and wish to have a semi-permanent filter solution.
If you do wish to swap out the lens filter for different conditions this can be done using the included fitting tool.
