Good advice & certainly worth taking on board, but ask yourself a few questions first.
1) do you want something to bring memories back with or something to start learning to take professional photos with?
2) what's your budget? are you prepared to spend a fortune or do you want something to tide you over or do you want to start building a set up (camera, housing, strobe, arm, second strobe ad infinitum).
3) how do you dive? are you prepared to spend a whole dive waiting for the creature to pop it's head out of a hole? do you have a buddy to tolerate that?
4) a dslr is big, think size of camera & quadruple it, do you want to dive with something that size (and think what a new big box of air could do to your bouyancy) or do you want something off the shelf complete with housing you can stick in your pocket.
those are 4 to start with i'm sure you can come up with others, you can save yourself a fortune & lots of frustration if you decide what you want from a camera first. what you want is important.
1) do you want something to bring memories back with or something to start learning to take professional photos with?
2) what's your budget? are you prepared to spend a fortune or do you want something to tide you over or do you want to start building a set up (camera, housing, strobe, arm, second strobe ad infinitum).
3) how do you dive? are you prepared to spend a whole dive waiting for the creature to pop it's head out of a hole? do you have a buddy to tolerate that?
4) a dslr is big, think size of camera & quadruple it, do you want to dive with something that size (and think what a new big box of air could do to your bouyancy) or do you want something off the shelf complete with housing you can stick in your pocket.
those are 4 to start with i'm sure you can come up with others, you can save yourself a fortune & lots of frustration if you decide what you want from a camera first. what you want is important.