Starting simply

Sue Hall · Issue 7, Jun/Jul 2002 · pp. 44–47

Products mentioned: Sea and Sea Motormarine II EX, YS60 strobe

For camera-less divers who would love to take photographs of their underwater adventures, it can be difficult to know just where to start. It seems that every dive boat has a photographer these days, sporting the latest line in enormous metal housings with enough strobe power to illuminate Wembley Stadium. The 2 questions this brings to the novice’s lips are “What is in there exactly?” and “How much?!” Housed SLR camera systems are the choice of professionals. Fully automatic and horrendously expensive, they have been known to make grown men weep hysterically when the F word (flooding) is mentioned. Dome ports, ring flash, rear curtain sync - even the jargon sounds complicated and costly, deterring the interested diver who wants to take pictures of a better standard than a cheap underwater point and shoot camera, but doesn’t know where to start. But there is another option! The Sea and S…