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The Nikon D2X as an underwater camera

Excellent review and sample photoigraphs at Wet Pixel. From the review:

Getting it underwater
Luckily for underwater photographers the Nikon D2X is build around the same magnesium chassis as the D2H (a 4 MP camera targeted at press photographers and not suited for underwater shooting), which has allowed housing manufacturers to design and even build housings before the camera was released. This immediate availability of housings really adds to the desirability of this system. Indeed, I got my Subal housing, from Ocean Optics in London, the day before the international release of the camera! And a week later the three of us were in the Red Sea getting better acquainted. It is now the end of that week and I am writing this review sitting looking at the sea in Sharm El Sheikh having made my first 16 dives with the camera.

The reviewers photographic gallery is wonderful -- here are three samples:
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Click for full-size Image The first one above was shot using the high-speed frame rate of the D2X. In fact it was too high-- the photographer only used a fraction of the images from that series... Posted by DaveH at March 16, 2005 3:59 PM