On my last few scuba diving trips, I’ve been enjoying taking snaps of underwater life. (See my jawfish photo from Lankayan, Borneo and my Similans photos from last year). My little Canon IXUS 400 has been serving me well, but it’s got its limitations 20 metres down – it’s hard to get proper closeups without the image blurring and the shutter lag means I get pictures of fishes’ bums more often than their faces. Whilst researching possibilities of what to get next, the Nikon D70Digital SLR comes up again and again: and this truly great underwater digital camera site by Peter Schulz of Florida’s Splashdown Divers takes the reader through his own underwater camera experiences, talking through the pros and cons of each of the cameras he’s used. The site is clean and clear to move around, and Peter’s prose is clean and concise. It’s how the Web should be used, passing on personal knowledge and making it easily accessible.
I’m skint at the moment, so making a purchase is a few months away yet. Besides, it’s not the camera itself that chews the cash. It’s all the extras, like the underwater housing, strobes and so on. Indeed, my professional dive photographer friend Jez Tryner advised that if I get really into underwater photography, “your camera will wind up costing the same as a small car”.
More on Nikon D70:
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