Quality that endures, quality that excites.
Housings Products
Who uses a SUBAL housing, feel the passion that is in all details, and is committed to uncompromising quality. Only the designer a perfect adaptation to the respective camera is good enough, only best and flawless material is over the strict “handmade” quality control. Practical benefits slumber, however, in the case. Benefits arising from his own experience. Because “Handmade” is a case for us only if it cooperates in all details with the hand of the photographer! Shake on it!
For hands, made by hand:
With this simple phrase, the outstanding comfort and the superiority of a SUBAL can be establish housing. Finally, at SUBAL solutions developed for maximum usability for your hands by hand and implemented – as simple as possible to make the access to the most frequently used controls. “By hand” against quality assurance not stop making, honor is associated with an enormous effort, but for us!
Our history
Inspired by diving pioneer and oceanographer Hans Hass, a tinkering 16 year old, Arnold Stepanek, built in 1952 his first underwater housing out of rubber and glass for his Kodak Retinette camera. This he used in the streams of Steyr for his first black and white recordings. In 1954, the first underwater housing made of die-casting was made. Then, five years later, the first single lens reflex camera ( Edixa reflex) is installed in a housing . In 1965 the Edixa reflex gets an upgraded underwater housing with a 4x filter and Nahlinse revolver, an absolute novelty in SLR underwater photography. Local and normal shots during the same dive are possible. Other new features: Shunt for bulb flash devices , there are jacks for cable flash and Xenon Flash . This breakthrough begins the commercial production of photo and movie packages in 1969. The SUBAL Austria brand is created in 1977. In the following years the focus of production is on housings for Super 8 film cameras, which SUBAL dominates unrivaled worldwide.
