William Robb wrote: > Hi; > I have a friend (I pay her well) who is into scuba diving, and wants to > do some underwater digital photography. > She thinks she would like to use a DSLR in a housing, I am wondering if > there isn't a decent digital UW camera out there. > I have no idea what depths she would be go to, I expect far enough that > good flash power would be nice. > Any information, anecdotal or otherwise would be appreciated. > Thanks > > William Robb > > >
A lot of people have already weighed in at this point but, like any good list member, I need to get my US$1.00 worth... for DSLR housings for a "budget" I'd go with Ikelite. They have an awesome system of housings, ports and accessories including full TTL flash for some Canon's (not sure about Nikon). www.ikelite.com. As far as viewfinders go, modern housings have viewfinder magnifiers that work pretty well. It's definitely an art to compose and shoot underwater and great buoyancy control is a must. My instructor called it "Zen diving." I used a Pentax optio 330 and Pentax housing on my SCUBA trips to the GBR and while it worked out pretty good, your friend would be better off finding a P&S "system" including some sort of off-camera flash ability. I know Olympus had some pretty good housings, including a flash housing for one of their upper-end P&S digis. It's an area of photography I'm very interested in (and one reason I switched to Canon) but it's just not in my budget to get the Ikelite 20D housing, 2 ports and ETTL strobes at the moment. Sigh..... -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
