Light & Motion Tetra 5000 housing review

M. Westermeier · Issue 10, Dec/Jan 2002 · pp. 14–17

Products mentioned: Light and Motion Tetra 5000, Nikon Coolpix 5000, ROC (Remote Optical Controller), Nikon SB105 strobe, Wetmate macro lens, Wetmate wide-angle lens, Nikonos bulkhead, Wetlink bulkhead, Sea & Sea strobe

The ability to get instant feedback is just one of the many attractions of using digital cameras underwater. When coupled with being able to take hundreds of images on a single dive and image quality that is starting to rival film, underwater digital makes sense. The Nikon Coolpix 5000 with its 5.0 megapixel effective CCD and 28-85mm zoom lens lends itself as an ideal digital camera for underwater use. And by expanding the basic camera with an auxiliary macro or wide-angle lens adapter this is one camera that can do it all from fish portraits, 1:1 macro, or dramatic wide-angle shots. When coupled with the Light and Motion Tetra 5000 underwater housing you have a system that is unbeatable for the versatility, price, ease of use and quality of images that you get. The Light and Motion Tetra 5000 housing for the Nikon CP5000, which only started shipping in mid August this year, is a superb …