EnglishRed filters and colour filters are optical tools used underwater to balance tones and adjust lighting. They support correction, creativity, and specialised imaging.
Red filters work best in clear blue water at depths between 3 and 20 meters. They restore warm colors that are lost quickly underwater.
Filters are ideal when using natural light. In deeper or darker conditions, artificial lighting such as video lights or strobes is more effective.
Magenta filters are designed for clear green water with enough natural light, such as kelp forests in California. In darker or low-visibility waters, like many European dive sites, filters are often less effective and artificial lighting is usually a better choice.
Yes, color filters are widely used with GoPro and other action cameras. Many systems use clip-on or flip filters, allowing you to switch filters quickly during your dive.
Yes, many smartphone underwater housings support color correction filters. These filters are especially useful for snorkeling and shallow dives in clear water.
A flip filter system allows you to switch between different filters or a macro lens during your dive. This makes it easy to adapt to changing depth and shooting conditions.
When you start shooting underwater, one thing becomes obvious very quickly: your photos and videos look blue. Even in clear tropical water, warm colors disappear fast. This is not a problem with your camera. It is simply how light behaves underwater. To get natural colors back, you need to correct this.
Underwater photos and videos often look too blue or unbalanced, especially when you rely on natural light. Red filters for your camera and blue ambient filters for your lights help restore natural color and create a better balance between foreground and background.
Blue video footage ? A lot of divers and snorkeler will recognize this problem when they have filmed in tropical blue water. The beautiful colors can be gained back with a color filter, to be used on your GoPro during your dive. You will restore immediately the red shades, which normally are lost, during filming. The FLIP color correction and macro system is especially designed for this. Suitable for Hero 5,6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13.
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