Photography - Underwater
I started to take photos underwater when doing my Divemaster course in 1992 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. Further experimentation with analog underwater photography was done when living in Honduras, Roatan Island with a Sea & Sea MX 10 camera.
My first underwater housing for a digital camera was for the Sony P5 but I realized very fast that it had its limits in regards of depth, wide angle needs and image quality.
When we bought a Olympus 3040 digital camera with a light and motion Tetra housing for the store in 2003 with a wide angle screw on lens my underwater photography became a bit more sophisticated.
In 2005 I bought my own Light and motin Tetra housing for my Olympus 3030 digital camera. Unfortunatly I have lost the wide angle screw on lens on a cave dive in summer of 2009 and as the camera housing is quite old it seems to be impossible to find a replacement lens.
The other underwater camera and housing I am using since the end of 2008 is my Nikon D 80 digital SLR with a 12/24 mm wide angle zoom lens. For the D 80 I use an Ikelite housing with a wide dome.
Most of my underwater photography is ambient light, and quite a bit of it is in black and white although I am experimenting with underwater flash photography since I have added a Ikelite SB 200, three Ikelite SB 160 and two Nikonos SB 105 underwater strobes to my underwater photography equipment.
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