Hard to believe ol' windy didn't post URL for his latest dissertation. Right column discusses why tray and bulkhead are where they are:
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Removable Trays for SLR Housings
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Hi Ike,
Your Coolpix 990 and 995 housings had a nice removable tray. If button lineup was a problem, you fixed it by having good bump stops on the tray and a post on the back of the tray that fit into a hole in the back of the housing. Lineup was good. I liked it.
The bulkhead was in the top of the housing, which I liked. There was a TTL cord that needed to be connected to the camera, which wasn't a problem, and that camera didn't even have a hotshoe - you had to screw it in.
RE the Flash +/- compensation buttons you have on the back - they are redundant with the 20D and other cameras that have Flash Compensation controls on the camera. Couldn't you do a removable tray w/ the TTL circuitry inside? The LMI Titan housing has a removable tray with all sorts of circuitry inside.
With your new housing setup I'm envisioning, the user could do flash compensation using the camera, and if the user wanted to switch between TTL and manual flash control, we could go back to the old days where we just took the strobe out of TTL and used your excellent 4 power setting dial on the DS125.
My 2 cents. Just trying to add constructive ideas.
James
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I frequently travel with people with pre-tray Subals, Sea and Sea and Seacam hosuings - and it is clear that non are as easy to live with as the tray release subals.
Older Subal's were very fiddly, but since the F5 and F100 (which had nice spring loaded trays) and lens release levers I have not seen another housing that is as easy to live with as my Subals.
OK ease of changing the housing round between dives makes no difference to the ease of use underwater (and therefore your pictures), but since we are chatting about it - a well engineered tray is the best solution for me.
Alex
p.s. unlike most other Subals, the D2X does not have the MSC switch on the tray - which means you have to take a bit more care to ensure it is aligned when slotting the camera into the housing.
