Recommend a good D70 housing?

[bdshort]

I've been thinking just recently that I'd like to start taking my D70 underwater with me. Right now I'm diving with a Canon A620 and Canon housing which works pretty well, even with just the onboard flash, but I'd like to move up to something a bit more. My D70 is obviously a few years old, so I figured I should be able to find a decent used housing for it. At some point I'll probably want to upgrade to a D300, but that's down the road a ways, so I want something fairly inexpensive right now (I know that word doesn't really go well with "underwater photography", but there you go!).

Is it possible to find a used housing for a few hundred $$, or am I dreaming here?

Brian

 

[jchull]

I am betting you can get a used housing for a good deal, but a few hundred dollars may be a stretch. My wife got the ikelite housing this winter and has been enjoying it after switching from the Canon p&s. It was around $2k with dome port and strobe, big price difference from a point and shoot housing. Make sure that your lense will focus to 12" if you get the 4" dome port. We went to Bonaire and could not figure out why it would not take any pictures close-up. Turns out the kit lens will only focus to 13", so she got the Nikkor 60mm macro, but it is shorter, so now we are going to get a new port... That's the great thing, you can put a wide variety of lenses on there, you just gotta have a few ports. A dome port is a few hundred $$, but maybe you will get lucky.

 

[danclem]

Hi Brian:

I shoot with a D70s in a Subal housing. There are a number of used housings around as folks have moved up to newer Nikon models. Like the previous post, however, I don't know about finding a housing for a few hundred dollars.

If you don't want to spend a lot of money, try the point and click route. I have a credit card size Casio XLIM and Casio housing, and it works really well for a lot of pictures. It is about $400-$500 for the entire rig. You obviously are not going to get the same quality photo, but a lot of times the smaller unit will get into places that the larger housing and strobe won't fit.

Good luck!