FWIW, if you decide to try the Nikonos system : * the waterproof Sekonic meter for the older Nikonos cameras is fairly expensive even if you can find one. (They stopped making them for some period of time and some underwater photographers were literally were buying them and hording them as spares.) I read recently that someone is starting to make/market a waterproof version again. Try contacting the technical folks at Ikelite for more information. * as someone else mentioned, the 15 mm Nikonos lens is very expensive. It's one of the best underwater wide angle lenses out there) BUT the optics on this lens are designed to only focus underwater...anything above water will be out of focus. * you can pick up a used Nikonos V and the 35 and 28 mm lenses do a good job; the V does have a built-in averaging meter (do you really want to deal with a separate, hand-held meter?). The cameras are excellent and bullet-proof given some average care and feeding. * the Nikon "RS" is (was) the newest UW Nikon; it's autofocus and is basically an armored version of their top-of-the line F4; it's incredibly expensive and bulky. Unfortunately, it also had a fairly bad reputation for not sealing up very well...a very bad thing for expensive electronics meant to be regularly used in salt water...I'm not sure of the actual reason, but Nikon stopped manufacturing/selling the RS a year or so back. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 09:09:25 PST
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