Sea & Sea DX-D200 housing

JP Trenque · Issue 31, Jul/Aug 2006 · pp. 23–26

Products mentioned: Sea & Sea DX-D200, Nikon D200, Nikon D100, Nikon D70, Nikon D2X, Sea & Sea DX-D100, NX ports

In the good ol’ days of film photography, one could purchase a camera, a housing and a set of ports and expect a good few years’ enjoyment with it before having to consider upgrading the system. And candidly enough, I expected the same when I purchased my D100 and Sea & Sea housing in May 2003. Then the D70 came about, shortly followed by the D2X and now the D200. The first reviews I read about the D200 camera were so enthusiastic that my right brain pushed me to take the plunge while my left brain tried to make up excuses like “upgrading now will avoid too much depreciation on the D100 set-up”. Yeah,right ! So in January this year, I purchased the new camera body. In the following review, I will try to resist temptation to delve too much on the qualities of the D200. Anyway, you’ve probably heard them all by now. To me, the choice of housings was quite obvious. As a previous owner of Se…