ewa-marine Germany is also a Distributor for underwater housings

Since 1970 we have have manufactured flexible underwater housings that are sold world wide under the ewa-marine brand.

But did you know that we are also the German Distributor and dealer for the following brands?

Equinox Housings,

Gates Housings,

Ikelite,

Recsea / Seatool,

Watershot, and

10bar.

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Seit 1970 sind wir, ewa-marine, Hersteller der mittlerweile weltbekannte ewa-marine Unterwassergehäuse und Ihnen als solches vermutlich auch bekannt.

Aber wussten Sie shon, das wir auch Distributeur und Werksvertretung folgender Unterwassergehäusemarken sind?

Equinox Housings,

Gates Housings,

Ikelite Unterwassergehäuse,

Recsea / Seatool,

Watershot, and

10bar Unterwassergehäuse.

Als marinSolar vertreiben wir, ewa-marine, diverse Marken Unterwassergehäuse und Zubehör für die Unterwasserphotographie.

Seit der Gründung 1977 hat sich marinSolar im Bereich Unterwasserlicht einen Namen gemacht. Angefangen hat alles mit den mittlerweile legendären, sehr kompakten Unterwasser-Doppel-Blitzgeräten als Kabel- und Sklavenblitz mit Quicksnap-Doppelschiene für CALYPSO / NIKONOS - Amphibien Kameras. Viele dieser Einheiten sind auch heute noch im Einsatz und deren Benutzer schwören, dass es kein besseres Blitzsystem gibt. Es folgte 1979 die Zusammenarbeit mit der Firma Eumig, Wien. Für die EUMIG NAUTICA, der bisher einzigen selbst gedichteten Filmkamera der Welt, fertigte marinSolar die offizielle Beleuchtungsanlage. Auch bei der Eumig handelte es sich schon um eine Beleuchtung plus Kamerastabilisierung. Das Konzept der Leuchten in Zusammenhang mit den Stabilisierungsflügeln war der große Vorteil der marinSolar-Systeme.

Neben den Leuchten aus der Eigenfertigung wurden bald auch Unterwasserkameras wie die Nikonos und die oben genante Eumig Nautica im Laden in München zum Verkauf angeboten. Dazu kamen bald auch Festgehäuse. Als erstes Amerikanisches Unterwassergehäuse auf dem Deutschen Markt importieret mainSolar die Produkte der Kanadischen Firma Amphibico. Andere Marken folgten.

Am 15. September 2004 wurde dann ein ein Vertrag über die Übernahme der Firma marinSolar zwischen Herrn Franz Ostermeier, marinSolar, und der ewa-marine GmbH, unterschrieben. Seither ist die marinSolar ein Geschäftsbereich der ewa-marine und zuständig für den Import, Vertrieb und Service von zur Zeit Ikelite, Gates Housings, Equinox Housings, Seashell, Watershot sowie einiger kleinerer Hersteller.

Der Vertrieb erfolgt über den Tauch- und Fotofachhandel oder direkt ab Werk oder im Firmeneigenen online shop unter http;//www.marinSolar.biz.

Traditionell betrieb die ewa-marine aber schon seit 2001 einen Online-Shop unter http://www.camera-corner.de. Hier konnten Kunden, die keinen entsprechenden Fachhändler vor Ort haben, online und zum sogenannten Listenpreis unsere Gehäuse frei Haus online kaufen.

Zum 14. Oktober 2010 wurden die beiden Online-Shops mit einer neuen Software zusammengeführt und die domain www.camera-corner.de eingestellt.

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Repairing an ewa-marine housing.

Front Port:

If the front port is scratch or otherwise damaged, we will have to replace it for you. As this involves special equipment in all current housings, it will have to be sent in to the factory. A DIY repair, and be it temporary isn't possible

Missing parts or missing or damaged closing rail:

Check with your local distributor or the factory in Germany. We can send you the spare parts you need.

Housing / pouch:

In most cases we are able to repair any damage of the plastic housing caused by wear and tear as well as force. (alas, no repair will be possible, if an attempt has been made to glue the housing. Glue damages the molecular structure irreversibly. In case of an emergency only the use of silicon-glue may be used to seal the housing provisionally) Please send the damaged housing to the following address with a note explaining the problem.

Sending the housing to the factory:

In case of shipments from outside the EU, mark the parcel "damaged goods for repair by manufacturer" and state a value of US$ 1,-- or Euro 1,-- for custom purposes. If you insist on declaring the price you paid for the unit when you bought it, we will have to pay a non refundable customs duty of around 30,- Euro / US$. Money wasted, as a leaking under water housing is of no use and therefore worthless in every meaning of the word (practically and therefore also commercially)

Also include payment for the return shipment or your UPS, DHL or FedEx customer account number

ewa-marine GmbH

Kundendienst

Blumenstr. 17

D- 82538 Geretsried

GERMANY

Please test the housing about 4-6 weeks prior to that dream holiday. That way, should damage have occurred since you last used your housing, we will be able to receive your housing, repair it and return it before you leave.

And, PLEASE, don't forget to give us you e-mail, phone, Skype or return address?

Corporate presence in the online social media

I just found this article in the online version of the New York times:

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/kodak-turns-to-twitter-for-easy-sharing/

And I must agree with Jeffrey Hayzlett from Kodak. I think the strategy they are following is correct and the way of the future. Internet has changed. It's no longer a platform for a digital version of a companies product catalog as it was back at the turn of the century. The so called "Web 2.0" has drastically changed the medium.

Todays internet is primarily an interactive medium and corporate presentation, the driving force in the web back during the 90s, has become a niche. If a company creates a nice static homepage they will end up way back on page “x” at google and no one will ever find them or their services. No matter how good or expensive it was to set up that hompage.

Whereas it was normal to go to a manufacturer homepage for information about a product, todays internet users might actually go a different route. I have had cases where people have posted tweet asking:

“I have a xyz camera. Does anyone know what ewa-marine housing I need”

Within seconds he had an answer from another user. PLUS a comment on the usability of our product. So what he got was the required information PLUS added value.

And I suppose that's what he knew to expect and the reason he did it.

Monitoring the forum ourselves, I w as able to chirp in and help him on his way.

Would he have gone to our webpage and check the cross reference list as well? And why didn't he do that in the first place. After all, he new our name and our address isn't very cryptic at www.ewa-marine.com. Oh well. That's something for specialists to investigate and analyze.

Fact is. Times are changing and we have to change with them.

Or to translate a German saying:

Those who don't go with the times, will be gone over time.

And what really surprises me in this regard: Lots of large corporations run very sad profiles on some of the social media. If I go and look at some of them in places like Twitter, I find boring standard backgrounds and less than 100 followers with a couple of short tweets / adds per month. What's a use of an expensive, cool homepage if you then go and “try to ruin” your good name with that kind of presence in the social media?

Any comments from your side about corporate presence in the online social media?
(Twitter, myspace, facebook, Flickr and Co.)

I'd really like to hear fom you.

What time of day is most suited for under water photography?

In contrast to film and photography on dry land, where the best light is generally found early in the morning, or late in the afternoon, noon offers the best light for under water footage.

The reason for this can be found in the light filter properties of water. After only 1 m (3 feet) the ray of light passing through water has already noticeably lost some of is red colour spectrum.

And please note: We're not talking about dive depth in this case! If the sun is at an angle, that ray passes threough the water at an angle. i.e. if the afternoon sun hits the water at an angle of aournd 36°, then 3 ft of dive depth adds up for 5 ft the ray has to pass through the water to reach the object your're taking a photo of. The light is then refelected from the object an has to travel another 3ft or so to get to your lens. That totals at 8 ft of water to filter out that nice, warm red light at only 3ft dive depth!

For that reason we tend to use that time of day for our footage in which the light has the shortest distance to travel through the water on its way to our lens.

That is the time, when the sun is directly above and generally speaking
between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
(and if possible, at low tide...)