Around the clock with a D2X

Alex Mustard · Issue 43, Jul/Aug 2008 · pp. 17–24

Products mentioned: Nikon D2X, Subal ND2H housing, Nikon D100, Subtronic Alpha strobes, Inon Z240 strobes, Sea & Sea YS350 strobe, Tokina 10-17mm lens, Nikon 17-35mm lens, Nikon 10.5mm lens

Around the clock with a D2x by Alexander Mustard When I bought my Nikon D2X and Subal housing I wrote a review here in the pages of UWP (Issue 23, March 2005). Since then, I have taken over 100,000 underwater photos with my camera and reaching this milestone, last week in the Red Sea, got me thinking. Most camera reviews are first impressions and all housings look great in the showroom. Here I want to share the experiences of life with an underwater camera system. What breaks and how easily problems were fixed, what wears out, what needs replacing and perhaps most important, what does not. I do not expect many readers will have the time to clock up this amount of use with their camera, but I hope that my experience provides a useful bench mark for judging the lifetime of elements of your own system. They say that hindsight is 20/20 and I am also curious to see how my opinions have change…