Fiji with the Nikon D7000 & D800

Jack Connick · Issue 70, Jan/Feb 2013 · pp. 33–35

Products mentioned: Nikon D7000, Nikon D800, Nauticam housing, Sigma 15mm fisheye, Tokina 10-17mm, Nikon 105VR macro, Nikon 16mm fisheye, Kenko 1.4x teleconverter, Zen 100mm dome port, Zen 200mm dome port, 8.5" acrylic dome port, +5 FIT diopter

Fiji has amazing reefs chocked full of soft and hard corals, gorgonian fans and other invertebrates with Technicolor hues. These incredible vistas have all sorts of subject matter for photography, and on a recent shop trip to Taveuni, I had a chance to enjoy them all. We dove at Rainbow Reef, in the Somosomo Straits between Taveuni and Viti Levu. There was a great variety of dive sites; from top-of-the-reef hard corals, sandy slots, to short/deep walls and caves. There were also large amounts of small and medium-sized fish, with a few larger ones wandering by from time to time; white-tip and bronze whaler sharks, large napoleon wrasse, turtles, etc. While most photographers who travel are moving to smaller rigs I seem to be moving in the other direction. Having started with a small Sea & Sea film rig, I moved through a range of Fuji compacts on to larger Nikon DSLRs. I was very happy wit…