The story of Isotta begins in 1967, when Egidio Isotta at just 18 years old opened his Photographic Studio “Foto Isotta” in Lazise, on the shore of Garda Lake, Northern Italy. After years dedicated with passion to professional photography on land, in 1977 he started his diving adventures with his inseparable camera. At the end of the 1970s, thanks to the experience gained with the selling and commerce of underwater photography and video equipment from all over the world, he realized the market was ready to offer new solutions to photographers in need for a lighter and easier to handle in water lighting product.

Isotecnic is pioneering the research of high-end materials and advanced technologies to be used in the development and manufacture of underwater video, lighting and camera equipment guided by a team of pros that works with passion and commitment with the goal of maximum quality of each product. Only the finest materials sourced from specialized companies in the aluminum fusion, the crystal refinement and optical industry are employed to develop high-end products 100% Made in Italy, reliable and carefully crafted. This philosophy guarantees that the highest quality standards are maintained and pursued in all production stages and ensures the durable safety and reliability of the products in the long run.

Each housing is created in-house from an aluminum block that is worked in a CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) machine with the goal of obtaining reduced weight and reduced dimensions.

The design of Isotta housings is developed starting from a careful study of the measures and components of every camera model: from a first free-hand design we then use the most recent CAD/CAM software able to calculate in detail characteristics such as weight and volume and to simulate the water pressure. The CAD 3D model data are sent to a sophisticated CNC machine that works on multiple axes and creates the housing’s shape from the provided aluminum block.

The housing model is then manually deburred, lathed, hand polished to obtain the best accuracy, surface brilliance and smoothness of details. Once is cleaned and satined the housing is ready for the coloring process made in a specialized laboratory in our signature red Isotta color, which has been our trademark since 1982. The color will remain stable in the housing surface: the most efficient answer to the desire of refined elegance and uniqueness.

In an extraordinary precise process each housing is then undergoing the anodization process to create a hard surface and make it resistant to decay.

During the housings’ development, manual operations and innovative solutions are employed to obtain maximum quality products, made as efficiently as possible: assembly and configuration are done with high attention to detail with exact reproduction of the camera buttons and controls, precise bulkhead connectors setting to guarantee an ergonomic and compact housing. An excellent watertight seal to 100 meters depth is ensured by dual O-Rings on each button and removable part. 

Every time a O-Ring is positioned and each component is in place, each housing is undergoing rigorous testing that ensure it sustains the pressure and charge while underwater. Each single part of the housing is inspected, tested, riexamined with a manual process in all production phases until the final test in the hyperbaric chamber with pressure depth to 100 meters.

With four decades of development and high-end manufacturing executed by the Isotta highly-qualified team we commit to make our factory processes evermore efficient, and globally competitive to satisfy clients’ expectations underwater, faithful to our company philosophy: high technology to create emotions.