This guideline will give you some thought and will help you to make the choice of the accessories for your DSLR underwater housing.
Before you start with underwater photography (UWP), you should first focus on diving and learn buoyancy, because good buoyancy is "a must" for an underwater photographer.
UWP is very different as compared to on land photography. Every breathe affects your photo, you should have at least a dive experience with a minimum of 60 dives.
After you get the experience to control your buoyancy, think about your budget for this new hobby. UWP gear especially the DSLR underwater housing and the accessories are not cheap!
For my DSLR cameras I used a Seacam Housing and Seacam accessories, all Seacam Housings are chiselled out from a block of aluminium and therefor they are very expensive but extremely stable..
The housing is a standard used by many of the pros because of it's reliability and superior ergonomics, most Seacam equipment is ordered specifically and a Seacam Housing allows you to use only the one camera model for which the housing is made.
Since I own 3 Seacam Housings, the basic explanation is only on this product, but you can use it for similar products like from Subal, Nexus etc.
Image 1
From the left : Seacam housing for Fuji FinePix S2 Pro & Nikon D200
Image 2
The Underwater housing consists of 2 parts, the rear part (for view finder etc) and the front part (Lens port)
You see here the front panel from inside, in the middle of the front part, you can fix the lens port.
Image 3
The rear panel from inside, in the bottom of the rear panel, you see the flood detector, in case of flooding, the flood alarm will automatically sound very loud and a red LED on top of the rear panel will start blinking.
Before you buy your underwater housing, ask your dealer about what you get for the standard housing, otherwise you have to send your underwater housing to the manufacturer to add new functions like :
- better protecting of the underwater housing in case of accidentally opening the housing during the dive.
- a second strobe socket and determine the strobe socket you will use, if it is a Nikonos V socket or a S6 socket.
- extra front command dial or rear command dial for your camera
- a non interchangeable standard viewfinder or an interchangeable viewfinder
Image 4
[IMGhttp://www.kotagadang.net/clubsnap/2008/uwp/dslrhousing/IMG_0537.jpg[/IMG]
If your underwater housing is well protected, you need 2 fingers at the same time to open the housing, so it is impossible to open it accidentally underwater.
Before you start with underwater photography (UWP), you should first focus on diving and learn buoyancy, because good buoyancy is "a must" for an underwater photographer.
UWP is very different as compared to on land photography. Every breathe affects your photo, you should have at least a dive experience with a minimum of 60 dives.
After you get the experience to control your buoyancy, think about your budget for this new hobby. UWP gear especially the DSLR underwater housing and the accessories are not cheap!
For my DSLR cameras I used a Seacam Housing and Seacam accessories, all Seacam Housings are chiselled out from a block of aluminium and therefor they are very expensive but extremely stable..
The housing is a standard used by many of the pros because of it's reliability and superior ergonomics, most Seacam equipment is ordered specifically and a Seacam Housing allows you to use only the one camera model for which the housing is made.
Since I own 3 Seacam Housings, the basic explanation is only on this product, but you can use it for similar products like from Subal, Nexus etc.
Image 1
From the left : Seacam housing for Fuji FinePix S2 Pro & Nikon D200
Image 2
The Underwater housing consists of 2 parts, the rear part (for view finder etc) and the front part (Lens port)
You see here the front panel from inside, in the middle of the front part, you can fix the lens port.
Image 3
The rear panel from inside, in the bottom of the rear panel, you see the flood detector, in case of flooding, the flood alarm will automatically sound very loud and a red LED on top of the rear panel will start blinking.
Before you buy your underwater housing, ask your dealer about what you get for the standard housing, otherwise you have to send your underwater housing to the manufacturer to add new functions like :
- better protecting of the underwater housing in case of accidentally opening the housing during the dive.
- a second strobe socket and determine the strobe socket you will use, if it is a Nikonos V socket or a S6 socket.
- extra front command dial or rear command dial for your camera
- a non interchangeable standard viewfinder or an interchangeable viewfinder
Image 4
[IMGhttp://www.kotagadang.net/clubsnap/2008/uwp/dslrhousing/IMG_0537.jpg[/IMG]
If your underwater housing is well protected, you need 2 fingers at the same time to open the housing, so it is impossible to open it accidentally underwater.
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