Patima had quite a few products on display including a housing for Sony’s HC1 HD camcorder, housed E-TTL and iTTL flashes for Canon and Nikon digital SLRs (respectively), a modeling light, a strange-but-interesting arm light, and a housed high-resolution personal multimedia player (PMP).

The “Arm Type” PLAS-PL40 consists of a series of arms joined by balls and clamps.  One arm contains two 5W LED 5000°K lights and another contains a lithium-polymer battery, which powers the light.  Although the prototype images show the PLAS-PL40 in two parts, the final version will consist of three joined arms.  The middle arm will be a buoyancy arm to help offset the weight of the unit underwater.

Also interesting was a housed, high-resolution PMP designed to be used as both a video camera monitor a way to watch movies and other media during long safety stops.  Deep divers: imagine being able to watch JAWS during that long decompression stop out in the blue!

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Patima PHC-HC1 underwater housing for Sony HC1 camcorder

Patima PHC-HC1 underwater housing for Sony HC1 camcorder

Patima PHC-HC1 underwater housing for Sony HC1 camcorder

Patima Sunpak PZ40X housed E-TTL and iTTL flash for Canon and Nikon dSLRs

Patima Sunpak PZ40X housed E-TTL and iTTL flash for Canon and Nikon dSLRs

Patima PDCH 400D housing for Canon Digital Rebel XTi/400D

Patima PDCH 400D housing for Canon Digital Rebel XTi/400D

New Patima modeling light with 6 hr burn time

Arm Type PLAS-PL40 battery light and buoyancy arms

Arm Type PLAS-PL40 battery light and buoyancy arms

Patima housing BCD! Inflates and makes your camera less buoyant underwater.

Patima helmet cam with housed PMP recorder/display

Michael Kim of Patima shows off a housed high resolution display + PMP with 30GB hard disk.

The Patima crew, all the way from Korea