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MAKO Announces: GoPro Snap on/off U/W and Polarizing Filters

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Get professional results above and under water - Our filters for your GoPro camera will give you professional quality images when filming underwater and are easy to install and easy to remove, above or below water. And the lanyard attachment point ensures you'll never lose your lens!

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We offer a Color Correcting Filter in both a 'reddish' color (for color correcting in blue ocean water conditions), and we also offer it in a 'magenta' color (for green water/fresh water conditions).

Both of the Color Correcting Filters are cut from optical grade acrylic material that has been treated with an abrasion resistant coating on both sides of the lens, protecting your lens.

For top side shooting we have a Glare Reducing Polarizing Filters. These filters do not affect the color of the light reaching the lens, but they minimize glare. Whether on the water, at the beach or on the ski slopes, a reduction in scattered light (glare) will add color saturation to foliage, add definition to clouds, and even deepen the blues of the sky and minimize haze.

The filters can easily be put on or taken off under water and the lanyard prevents the lens from getting lost. The lenses won't obstruct your GoPro LCD display and of course they do not create any vignetting!

We also offer the filters in two attachment versions - one for your HERO3 housing and another for your HERO2 Dive Housing - this is due to the different physical lens designs of these two housings.

All filters are easily removed and have a hole for an attachment lanyard so you can take it off underwater and not worry about losing it.

BLUE WATER FILTER:


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Photo taken without filter - photo shot in waters near Catalina Island
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With Filter, using the Blue Water Filter - Note the correct color and rich tones

POLARIZING FILTER:
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Photo taken without Glare Reducing Polarizing Filter - Note reflection of sky in water

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With Filter, GoPro with Polarizing Filter added - Note glare has been removed yet photo is not darkened.

Why a Color Correcting Lens is Needed:

Water absorbs light selectively with depth. This means that not only does the intensity (brightness) of light become reduced at depth, but the composition of the light changes with depth as well.

Light with the longest wavelengths is absorbed first (red, then orange and later, yellow). That is why very deep clear water appears dark blue (since all the other colors have been absorbed).

The filter functions by “bringing back” the missing colors as you dive deeper. For example, in blue water, the reddish-orange filter accentuates the diminished red and orange colors at depth. The filter will reduce the bluish tint seen on video or photos taken without artificial light at depth.

Our magenta filter for green water works the same way, adding back the colors that are missing at depth, balancing the green tint we see so often in these conditions.

The end result is that our filters will make your video images more colorful, more vibrant and appear to have a more natural color balance.

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MAKO GoPro Underwater and Polarizing Filters


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