Shedding light on the D100

Staff · Issue 13, Jun/Jul 2003 · pp. 27–31

Products mentioned: Nikon D100, Nikon D1, Nikon SB28DX, Nikon SB50DX, Nikon SB80DX, Sea and Sea YS90 DX, Sea and Sea YS30, Subal D10, Subtronic Alpha, Sigma 28-70mm, Nikkor 16mm

27 The Nikon D100 is big news and in the last couple of issues of UwP it and its various housings have been the subject of three reviews! But while we have seen lots of pictures of cameras and housings there has been a bit of a lack of underwater images taken by the camera under the sort of conditions it will see most of its use - a typical diving holiday! One aim of this article is to correct that. However the main goal of this article is to shed a bit more light onto the main problem that is concerning current and potential D100 users, that of lighting pictures... The problem is simple - at present "there are NO underwater strobes that offer Through-The-Lens (TTL) flash metering with Nikon's D100 (or D1 series) camera!" Why is this? The problem lies with the cameras, they cannot perform standard Nikon TTL flash control, so as an alternative Nikon has developed DTTL. DTTL is NOT the sam…