Perfect system

Staff · Issue 38, Sep/Oct 2007 · pp. 32–35

In September 2005 I came back from a trip to Raja Ampat in Indonesia convinced that I had reached the boundaries of what my current camera, the Nikon D100, could do and was seriously thinking of an upgrade. At that point in time the D2X was available if you could afford it…. and the D200 appeared to be finally not too far away. My next trip was to Bali that Xmas and a good (and VERY trusting friend) offered to loan me his D2X and Subal housing! After coyly hesitating for at least two nanoseconds I gratefully accepted the offer on the standard proviso that if I flooded it, I owned it…. I have to say that I was amazed at the difference between the two cameras and very pleased with my results in Bali. So I began seriously contemplating upgrading to the D2X until I sat back and did the math. Back then I had two D100’s and two Subal housings, one rig bought brand new and the other bought seco…