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South Korea, Seoul
1 Level
680 Review
38 Karma

Review on ๐Ÿ“ธ SOONSUN GoPro Hero 8 Black Dome Port: Waterproof Dome Lens Housing with Trigger, Floating Hand Grip, Built-in Red Filter, and 10x Macro Filter by Alejandro Silem

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Not suitable for diving, snorkeling fun

I liked this canopy and wish I liked it more, but there are a few design flaws that made me want to return it. First of all, the loss of the viewing window to see the screen on the front of the GoPro when you buy a model with rotating red and macro filters. You can buy this dome in two versions, either with a spinning wheel that gives you red, macro or no filter, or another version with no filter and just a screen view port on the front of the camera. That's a huge loss for me and I don't understand why the manufacturer couldn't figure out how to do both by putting this wheel on the opposite side. Now let's talk about diving with this cute little thing. Honestly it's a great little product but it has its place in our aquatic adventures and I don't think it's the best for underwater diving. It's definitely a lot of fun snorkeling or as I've seen in many other reviews, swimming pools as a training aid, beaches and dogs pouncing on waves, etc. Well, in terms of diving, housing is a lot of work. The reason for this is that by design the dome has a decent amount of airspace inside and as we all know when diving this airspace means the hull has positive buoyancy underwater. Have you ever tried holding a soccer ball under 4 feet of water in a pool? It's fun, but you get tired very quickly! So I think that for normal diving you need to understand significant positive buoyancy and you either need to change the shroud from this fun above water box before going deep into a normal underwater box or add some weight to the canopy so you can do this. do. neutral and doesn't feel like you're fighting it the entire dive. For me, the loss of viewing windows when buying the red/macro lens option is enough to make me go without it and I've been able to solve the buoyancy problem.

Pros
  • Convenient
Cons
  • Some flaws