Housing for Nikon D100?

Hi everyone !!!

I need some advice about getting a housing for my nikon D100. In the last couple of years I have been using a Hugyfot for the nikon N90,I thought about using the same brand but because I live in the Turks & Caicos Islands I think about getting one from a company from the USA or close because it will be easier to get it here and to get spare parts.

Another of my questions is if it will be woth it to get a housing for this camera or better to wait for the replacement of the the Nikon D100?

Thanks !!!

Hi David

I've just been through the same process: owner of a D100; and user of CP5000s with a Subal housing for underwater. After much thought I sold the CP5 housing at the end of last year and bought the Subal D10 housing for the D100 - and am delighted with it. SO much so that I have bought another D100 so that if one packs up - or becomes unavailable - I have a second.

Yep, I read Alex's reports about the D2X and the Subal housing and, being male, think, yep, gotta have one of those..... and maybe I will when they are old and the price is coming down. Who knows when the D100 successor will appear.

I can understand your concern too about servicing when you live in TCI (lucky you). As you may have seen through other posts, the Subals are superb: high quality and well built. After about 100 dives my CP5 only had the slightest of scratches on the case - and worked like a charm: which is more than I can say for the CP5s sometimes.

Get the Subal D10 you won't regret it. It will withstand a hit from a tank round - and as I now live in Kabul that is quite handy.

If you run into Cynthia Astwood in Grand Turk say hi from Tim formerly of Bermuda. (Yeah, yeah, I know, who did I upset...)

Hi David -

I shot a D100 for 2 years and I loved it. I would recommend that you try to find a lightly used or discounted housing however. The camera is on the tail end of its life span, and there should be some good deals on housings.

KC

I currently have a D100 in an Aquatica housing.

However there are pretty good deals going with the much smaller and lighter Huggyfot housing - contact Huggy in Belgium they can explain more.

However this weekend I had the chance to handle the D70 housing made of Delrin (which was super light) and it is a really pretty housing whichmakes me wonder whether to change to a D70.

The D70 brand new currently is the same cost as a second hand D100. So if you are starting out you might want to consider a D70 rather than the older D100. Most housings for the D70 have benefited from the faults of previous D100 and are lighter (helps with the flight weight allowances).

Otherwise, I agree with previous posts that probably one of the best housings are those from Subal (which are a lot more expensive then the Huggy). And only the Subal D70 housing has the "grand viewer" which magnifies the image you get from the camera.

Paul