Nikon D3200

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ellisj501

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Hi All,

Hope everyone is well.

I have a really cool Nikon D3200 DSLR camera and wondered if anyone knew if you could get a waterproof case for it, I bet I could get some incredible pictures with it on my dives.

I’ve done some Googling but can’t really find anything.

Cheers

John
 
Entry level DSLR bodies were never popular for underwater photography, primarily because the cost of the camera body comes to a fairly small portion of the total rig cost (lenses, housing, ports, strobes, viewfinders, etc). The total cost of such a rig can easily exceed $10,000, which makes dwarfs the difference between, say, a $700 D3200 and a $2000 D500, yet a rig built around a D500 is massively more capable.

Technically, you can get an Easydive Leo3, which will support your D3200 as well as a host of other cameras, but the cost of a complete rig (housing, ports for fisheye and macro lenses, a pair of strobes with necessary hardware and some accessories) comes out to about $7500 not including shipping and taxes. You can get a second-hand ready-to-dive D500 rig for less than half that.

Edit: Actually, scratch that - I forgot that D3200 doesn't have a focus motor. Pretty much everyone who shoots underwater with an APS-C camera uses the Tokina 10-17mm fisheye lens, but its Nikon F-mount version uses screwdriver autofocus (the focus motor is located in the camera body rather than the lens, and drives lens focus via screwdriver-like coupling), which means it won't autofocus on your camera. This makes it largely useless as an underwater body, hence no manufacturer making a housing for it.
 
You can get a number of housings for the D3200 few links below. As noted in the earlier comment you will be limited on lens selection, but Id presume if you have the camera you have a lens or two for it already. Just be prepared to spend a small fotune on housing, strobes and the rest. But you have the camera so its a start. Happy shooting

 

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