INON X-2 Housing for the Canon EOS 60D

Phil Rudin · Issue 64, Jan/Feb 2012 · pp. 46–51

Products mentioned: Inon X-2 housing, Canon EOS 60D, Inon Z-220, Inon Z-240, Canon EOS 10D, Canon EOS 20D, Canon EOS 30D, Canon EOS 40D, Canon EOS 50D, Canon EOS 600D (Rebel/Kiss X-5), Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 10mm fisheye, Canon EF 8-15mm zoom, Canon EF 180mm macro USM, Tokina 10-17mm, Canon EF 20mm, Canon EF-S 60mm macro, Canon EF 100mm macro, Inon MRS60 port II, Inon UFL-MR130 EFS60 semi-fisheye lens, Inon D series strobe, Inon S series strobe, Inon Z series strobe, Nikonos V, Nikonos S6

For close to thirty years now I have owned Inon strobes. First a pair of Inon Z-220’s which I used with my Nikonos RS cameras and now Inon Z-240’s. All of the strobes are more than a bit beaten up now but still work as well as the day they were new and none has ever needed servicing. When I met Takuya Torii the Division Director for Inon’s Global Operation Division at DEMA in November of 2011 and he offered me the opportunity to field test the Inon X-2 housing I was anxious to see if the X-2 housing was as good as my time tested strobes. Inon Inc., is a Japanese company well known in the underwater photography world. Inon first announced the X-2 housing for the Canon EOS 10D and 20D cameras in February 2006. Since them Inon has followed up with Inon X-2 housings for the EOS 30D, 40D and 50D cameras. The release of the latest time-proven Inon X-2 for the EOS 60D was announced in October 2…