I'm looking at one of the waterproof camera "bags" made by Aquapac, which is basically a tough poly bag with a hard lens area so you shoot with the camera in the bag. They have a chunky seal which is meant to keep out water up to about 5m (more than I need).

Is there a cunning way of attaching the camera to a tripod whilst in the bag? If you just screwed the tripod on then you would chew up the bag.
Has anyone got any ideas? I thought about 2 magnetic plates but would this affect the DSLR?

Burt,
try before you buy 

I tried one of these bags out in the shop first & found if the flash is needed all you get is White-out 

I'm not mechanically minded but wouldn't Magnets interfere with your Camera  :-\

I use the Aqua bags to hold my remote flashes try here http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_8&products_id=102102

Cheers Paul

Good advice paull, thats worth bearing in mind. I dont suppose it matters if you use a radio slave trigger though.

I wonder if you could make a clamp affair with a large plastic spring loaded clamp with  a threaded sstud sticking out, which screws into the tripod and then clamps on the camera body.

Some pics when I have time to fabricate & photo it........

What about using the video camera bag (as its bigger) with the flash pre-attached?

huh?

Attach the flash to the camera, put the camera with flash attached into the video camera-sized bag (as the video camera sized bag looks big enough to take the combination) - all waterproofed together. From the pics on the website you'd have to use the video camera bag 'upside down'.

Cheers walrus, now I'm with you!

Still doesnt solve the tripod attachment problem though.

If you can live with a tichy tripod (i.e. just enough to hold it steady/right way up) have you looked at this one

again, already in the video camera sized bag. I use one with my S9600 - its strong/stiff enough to hold it upright and folds away to fit into the cameras carry-bag.

You can get small metal screw things to adapt a different sized tripod thread to your camera, they look like this (the other thread is in the wood underneath I guess):

If you put one inside the bag one outside the bag and get one or even two small rubber O rings sandwiched in between you might be able to make it waterproof and mount your camera on the inside tripod adapter. (No promises it'll be waterproof though :-[ )
There are also tripod thread adapters that take a larger thread down to a smaller one so one of these could be used to get you back to your original thread size if necessary. They look like this:


Hope it helps.

How about one of  these --> http://www.camerasunderwater.co.uk/ewa_marine/slr/housings.html

Francis

francis said:

How about one of  these --> http://www.camerasunderwater.co.uk/ewa_marine/slr/housings.html

Francis

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This is what I use with my non-SLR (but SLR style) camera. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/footleg/2301226064/in/set-72157603365735741/

This works great with this camera, apart from the fact you cannot use a tripod with the camera is these housings. But I rarely use a tripod anyway. The main draw back if you have an SLR camera is that you cannot get to the focusing ring on the lens. My camera has push button focus control like most compacts in manual mode, so I can control everything through the housing. Ewa-Marine do have housings for SLRs which have a sort of glove built in for getting the the lens barrel, but I have no experience of these. When I have taken my SLR underground I have just used the Ewa-Marine housing to waterproof the camera for transport in the cave, but taken the camera out to use it when I got to my location.