hello everyone i plan on getting the nikon d70 sometime in the near feature and wanted to understand housings better. well i live in hawaii and plan on using my camera in the water mainly toshoot surfing and diving. since i dont scuba i only free dive i never go deeper than 25 feet. i wanted a housing that could be able to handle the preassure down there and that would be light and moble enough to shoot out of the water for those awesome surfing shots. is it better to get the surf housing and just pray i never get good enough to dive past 33feet where most surf housings fail or should i opt for the dive housing and just deal with the bulkyness of the stronger housing??????????????????anyinfo on this would be a great help
mike
i don't have any specific surfing experience, but I have always been worried that my dive housing will leak when I have taken it into the surf. It hasn't, but for this reason I think a housing specifically designed to withstand surf might be best.
the other point I'd make is that I think the ideal lens for in water surfing shots is a wide angle zoom. Most of these lenses require port extensions on dive housings - which seem to increase the chances of a flood when the housing is washed about by the surf.
So I'd suggest a surf housing is the best way to go:
