Simply effective

Terry Crocker · Issue 115, Jul/Aug 2020 · pp. 27–31

Products mentioned: Nikon D90, Nikonos V, Olympus XZ-1, Olympus PT050 underwater housing, Nauticam XZ-1 underwater housing, Sea & Sea YS-D1, Sea & Sea Sea Arm 7 tray & flash arm, Inon UCL 165 M67 wet macro lens, Inon UWL H100 M67 wet wide-angle lens, Olympus XZ-2

In September 2012, with the price of slide film and its processing suddenly taking an upward turn, I reluctantly decided that I would have to covert to digital for my underwater photography. I already had a Nikon D90 DSLR for my land photography, so I looked to putting that into an underwater housing, however, with a cost in excess of £4,000 for the necessary housing, ports and lenses, at the time, and, in addition, the fact that I was used to using the compact Nikonos V system, I decided that I would purchase a digital compact camera system. Another influencing factor, with the DSLR option, was the significant weight and “drag” in the water (plus the associated airline excess baggage charges). What I wanted was a system that worked in a similar manner to my Nikonos system, i.e. I could set it to manual, meter the ambient light, set the aperture to give an exposure of around -1.0 and set…