Light & Motion
Type: Underwater lighting and housing manufacturer Founded: Monterey, California, USA Key products: Underwater video lights, Stingray housings
Overview
Light & Motion is a Monterey, California-based manufacturer of underwater lighting and camera housings. The company was an early pioneer of both underwater video lighting and compact camera housings. Elijah Woolery (later co-founder of Wetpixel Quarterly) served as lead design engineer.
Light & Motion played a significant role in the LED video light revolution that transformed underwater videography, producing powerful LED continuous lights as alternatives to halogen and HID systems.
Product timeline
- 2001-01: Tetra housing line prominently featured at DEMA 2001 in New Orleans; award-winning booth; Travel Kit and Pro Travel Kit variants shown ([1])
- 2001: Hosted Digital Shootout event (referenced as prior event Jim Watt attended); equipment sponsor for Kona Aggressor II Shootout ([2])
- 2002: Titan and Tetra housings; ROC strobe controller innovation; LCD monitor product; shown at Seaspace 2002 ([3], [4], [5])
- 2002: Titan housing for Olympus E-20 ([6])
- 2003: Titan D100 housing; Tetra 5050; Tetra S400; [7] video housings; Dan Baldocchi on staff ([8])
- 2004: Tetra C5060; Tetra 5060 (returned to machined aluminum); Mako housing; StingRay video housings ([9], [10])
- 2004-09: Bluefin VX2100 video housing announced ([11])
- 2005: Tetra 7070 housing announced; Mako PC1000; StingRay III for Sony camcorders ([12], [13])
- 2005-05: Bluefin HD video housing announced ([14])
- 2005: Digital Shootout sponsor ([15])
- Pre-2007: Elijah Woolery serves as lead design engineer (before co-founding Wetpixel Quarterly)
- 2000s–2010s: LED video lights for underwater use
References
Sources
- Wetpixel article, Jan 14, 2001: Dema 2001 Gallery ↩
- Wetpixel article, Nov 9, 2001: Kona Aggressor Ii Digital Shootout Webcast ↩
- Wetpixel article, Apr 16, 2002: Seaspace 2002 Report Truly Unsinkable ↩
- Wetpixel article, Jul 6, 2002: Lm Releases Photo Of Tetra 5000 ↩
- Wetpixel article, Jul 22, 2002: Dema 2002 Report ↩
- Wetpixel article, Sep 24, 2002: Light Motion Titan Housing For Olympus E 20 ↩
- StingRay III (article) ↩
- Wetpixel article, Oct 7, 2003: Dema 2003 Show Coverage1 ↩
- Wetpixel article, Mar 15, 2004: Light Motion Announces Tetra C5060 ↩
- Wetpixel article, Oct 15, 2004: Dema Show 2004 Report ↩
- Wetpixel article, Sep 14, 2004: Light And Motion Announces Bluefin Vx2100 Video Housing ↩
- Wetpixel article, Mar 18, 2005: Light And Motion Announces Tetra 7070 ↩
- Wetpixel article, Mar 11, 2005: Light Motion Stringray Iii Housing For Sony Hc21 Hc32 Hc42 ↩
- Wetpixel article, May 21, 2005: Light Motion Announces Bluefin Hd ↩
- Wetpixel article, Jul 31, 2005: Bonaire Digital Shootout 2005 Daily Webcast ↩
- DEMA 2001 Gallery (article) ↩
- Seaspace 2002 report (article) ↩
- DEMA 2002 report (article) ↩
- Bluefin VX2100 (article) ↩
- Bluefin HD (article) ↩