Posts by Dan

For the HERO2 dive housing there's the red and magenta snap-on filters, but no polarizer.

Get a snap on filter. Easy to put on/take off as required Snap-on Filters For GoPro HERO3 Bacpac Compatible Housing

Since you're freediving stay away from the JBL and Biller spearguns. They're made for tank divers/shooting fish at point blank, and have inferior components. Freedivers generally need more reach/power/accuracy.

Rail guns are economical and work. Never having used a speargun before you may find you dislike chest loading, although there's a way around it. You may then require a gun with a butt extension for hip loading, which is what I prefer. I'm not aware of any good rail guns with a butt extension for hip loading, so you're now getting into wood guns.

Call the Freedive Store and come by, I'll show you the different guns.

If your barrel has water inside, weighing it to compare to another barrel is at this point.. pointless. You first need to get rid of the water and seal it properly. Since it's a Pelaj barrel with the unique ridges you described, I suggest you contact Pelaj for the best way to seal it. I'm sure once this is done properly you'll see an increase in buoyancy, and your gun may just float with the Speardiver reel.

A Speardiver 120cm carbon tube weighs 10oz (284g) without the plugs. But it's not all about the weight. An aluminum barrel is clangy/noisy and cold. A carbon barrel gun is tight like tiger If by performance you mean that it's the same band stretch and so the same power and accuracy.. yeah there's not much difference. But to me performance is not just about that, it's about the small details and how the gun feels. And a carbon gun just feels warmer and better balanced.

What is the purpose of that platform?

Additionally, and this was my oversight, a hosting service (in this case Photobucket) will almost always optimize your pics when you upload them. This always results in degradation of the pic quality. It may not matter so much in this case. But if you really wanted to show the pics in their original quality, you'd have to upload them directly to a server, or to a hosting service which doesn't alter them at all. I'm not aware of a pic hosting service that does this, it will result in huge files being uploaded.

This is why in the end when you want to show off the best a certain camera can do, I think you might as well edit them to look the best possible, then resize and optimize for web yourself.

Then they're not "untouched". Picture quality changes when resampling/resizing.

Nice pics given the low light. Why are you not shooting at a higher resolution?

Rest in peace. My condolences to his family and friends.

mjreilly, the guns you mentioned are not considered long.

Are you scuba or freediving?

Have you used a speargun before, if yes which?

As a beginner you should stay away from reels, and start with a float line.
I never heard of anyone using mono on a speargun reel. A speargun reel doesn't work like a fishing rod reel. Mono will be a PITA to handle.

Which line do you have on it?

Steven, does your 120 Speardiver Phantom float with the reel and line?

There are different pipes with track, some are significantly heavier than others. The Speardiver Phantom has a minimum thickness barrel, just enough to hold 2 x 16mm bands with acceptable flex, yet be very light in the water. If you want, weigh your barrel and I'll compare it to mine. That would make what Steven says relevant if his gun does float.

I'd use a carbon barrel if I had the choice. It gives the gun so much of a nicer feel.

I don't use reels, I use a float line, and put very light pressure on the fish, just enough to keep the flopper deployed. But sometimes when I know the shot is a %100 holding shot, which I can see after I surfaced usually, I'll put much more pressure on the line.

Can it be inferred, that since you do like to put "very light pressure" on the fish with a reel, that if you could have a reel that would do it for you automatically and reliably, you would set it to have a slight amount of drag? That can't be done with a reel that free spools after the first pull.

Just some promotional videos for Speardiver gear. If the footage is really good maybe a compilation for an inexpensive DVD featuring the gear. I really liked the Terra Australis video. I want to achieve the same quality, and think I can get much more action (local) because the guys I'll be filming are very experienced.

Judah, the kind of footage I'd like would take too long to get diving Miami, so I must do a trip. In this case I depend on other people and sea conditions. If everything goes right I don't want to be experimenting with cameras, I want the best results possible to get the shots I need in one time. I will use both cameras together, the Gopro head mounted and the other camera hand held.

You can, instructions are in this thread http://spearfishing.world/info…ure-posting-tutorial.html. But I prefer members use pic hosting sites, so there's less space taken up on the forum server.

First one is muskrat?

What's the problem with uploading pics?

I asked the same question on Scuba board, there are some responses worthy of consideration Best underwater video camera under $5000?

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Exactly! A reel is not there to fight the fish. It is there to retrieve your line once you get to the surface and keep you connected to your fish.

G.R. I agree with you in the general sense, a speargun reel is not used to bring in a fish, in the same way a fishing rod reel does. But specifically, do you believe that a reel should never put any pressure on the line? IMO pressure on the line at the least makes sure the flopper stays deployed.