Forum Members Poll: Your first underwater camera

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I don't know how to answer. First UW camera was a Nikonos I.

I don't know how to answer. First UW camera was a Nikonos I.

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a sony trv 125 in a custom housing .But if this is poll only for photo cameras than it was a compact mju from olympus

a sony trv 125 in a custom housing .But if this is poll only for photo cameras than it was a compact mju from olympus

Hi Luftu

We are focussing on stills images camera

20 votes is getting better

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The first model Nikonos (some call the one) with both a 35mm and the 28mm Nikkor lenses.

I started with the Canon Powershot S40 in the Canon housing around 2002. I eventually add an Ikelite DS-125 to it. I sold it on to someone else after a couple of years and moved to the Olympus 5050, a true classic UW camera.

Hi Luftu

 

We are focussing on stills images camera

This leaves me out too, since I only shoot video.

I wonder why you limited compacts to polycarbonate housings. First camera I used underwater was a Panasonic LX7 in Nauticam. First one I owned is the Olympus Em5 in Nauticam housing. I voted interchangeable lens, but if I count my parent's borrowed LX7 there would not be an option for me.

I wonder why you limited compacts to polycarbonate housings. First camera I used underwater was a Panasonic LX7 in Nauticam. First one I owned is the Olympus Em5 in Nauticam housing. I voted interchangeable lens, but if I count my parent's borrowed LX7 there would not be an option for me.

It's a fair point it should have just said compact camera but the large majority start with a plastic housing so when I put it down that is what came to mind can no longer change however I would argue that the first camera you bought was an ILC as the other was on loan?

Another Nikonos starter. This was a few decades ago! I did not use it for diving, however. When I started doing UWP while diving it was a medium format housing.

Mine was a Canon G10 with Ikelite housing and an Ikelite strobe...I really didn't like the housing at all and eventually moved on to Nauticam

A Sea & Sea DX1200... It got me hooked, but it's been in box on a shelf for a long time...

Canon Powershot

I also started with a Canon PowerShot, no strobe. Took it a few places. Looking back on my pics I have lots of green and blue lo-res images of beautiful places. When I went to Truk in 2004 I rented a second camera from my LDS as a backup, can't remember what brand but instead of a flash memory card you had to insert a 3.5" disk. I hope I can make it back there and take some decent pictures now that I have a clue.

Nikonos IVA + subalwider add on wide angle lense and Morris aqua flash. All well second hand by the time I got them.

My really first underwater camera was one of those disposable film ones. After that, Canon SD630 in Canon housing. Then followed a series of such Canon's: SD870is, s95, s120. Each failed with a zoom defect above water by the way. Then a Sony RX100 II with a pair of real strobes. Then Nikon D810, and D850.

My first uw camera was a tg-4 (3 - Rugged Waterproof camera (Olympus tough, etc)), but I also bought the pt-056 housing and a strobe, which is more (1 - compact or fixed lens in plastic housing). So I selected 1 assuming the intent of 3 was being unhoused.