Two Views of the Nikon D80 & Ikelite Housing

Staff · Issue 34, Jan/Feb 2007 · pp. 18–22

Products mentioned: Nikon D80, Ikelite D80 housing, Ikelite DS200, Ikelite DS125, Ikelite DS51, Sigma 17-70mm macro lens, Nikon 10.5mm fisheye, Nikon 12-24mm zoom lens, Nikon 60mm lens, Ikelite 8 inch dome port

Dave Harasti: It took four years for me to cave in but I finally succumbed and upgraded to a digital SLR. For the past couple of years my photography skills had been honed using the Nikon Coolpix 5000 and more recently the Coolpix 8400 and whilst I’ve managed to get a couple of decent shots out of both camera’s I had found the shutter lag to be extremely frustrating. This shutter lag has prevented me photographing many small fish species as all I ever ended up with was shots of their butt… The Camera The Nikon D80 was released in September 06 and is a 10.2 megapixel camera that sits on the Nikon digital SLR scale between the D70s and the D200. It utilises an image processing engine similar to the D200 / D2X and has a quoted 80 millisecond shutter lag. The large 2.5 inch LCD screen is fantastic to review images on and the D80 incorporates a new 11 area AF system that makes focusing your i…