Review of the Nikon Coolpix 8400 & Ikelite Housing

Staff · Issue 25, Jul/Aug 2005 · pp. 16–20

Products mentioned: Nikon Coolpix 8400, Ikelite housing, Nikon Coolpix 5000, Olympus C5050, Canon S45, Nikon D70, Nikon D100, Inon UCL165, Lexar compact flash card, Ikelite DS125 strobe, Nikon WCE-75 Wide Angle Lens, Nikon 18mm wide angle lens

I have been playing with camera’s underwater for about ten years and a couple of years ago I went digital and purchased the Nikon Coolpix 5000. After two years of playing with the CP 5000 underwater and being fortunate enough to obtain some decent shots I made a decision to upgrade to a new system. The primary reasons for wanting to upgrade the CP5000 was because of the shutter lag delay, slow write times for raw files and I wanted more pixels so I could enlarge images to A3 size with minimal resolution loss. Plus all my photography buddies were upgrading to bigger and better cameras so I had to keep up! After much deliberation I ended up choosing the Nikon Coolpix 8400 as my new camera. One of the key factors in my decision was the announcement by Ikelite that they were in the process of developing a housing for the camera. My CP5000 is used in an Ikelite housing and after 400+ dives wi…