D80 with the Ikelite Housing

[Dave H 0]

Well it looks like I may have to finally retire the good old Coolpix 8400. Its served me well however I felt a little left behind so I bought myself a D80 and somehow Ikelite managed to have a housing designed, built and shipped to me within a month!

 

I took it for a test dive today with the Nikon 60mm. The Ike housing is fantastic, yet again Ike has come up with the goods! B) I'm off to PNG next Friday for 2 weeks diving around Motupore Island, will give it a thorough work out and hopefully have a couple of nice shots to show on my return.

 

The following pics are from my local divesite (Flypoint in Nelson Bay) and were taken in a 90 min dive today:

 

Half Banded Seaperch

 

Black Margined Glossodoris Nudibranch

 

Green Moray Eel

 

Blue Dragon Nudibranch

 

Draper's Egg Cowry

[Dave H 0]

and here's a few more from the dive. I must say that I do miss the LCD screen of the CP8400 however the features of the D80 more than make up for it!

 

Splendid Chromodoris Nudibranch

 

Spindle Cowry

 

Clown Ceratosoma Nudibranch

 

Maori Cod

 

Now I just need to figure out how to use it!!!

[loftus 42]

Very impressive, particularly for your first outing. I particularly like the composition of the last one.

[james 0]

Great shots Dave - thanks for sharing them here.

 

Now you can truly catch the action - good stuff.

 

James

[ikelite 0]

That is THE first housing we have nailed together:

 

http://www.ikelite.com/web_pages/2dslr_dttl80.html

[Arnon_Ayal 1]

Two things impressed me here:

First the images, very good by itself but more then impressive for first use of DSLR u/w.

Second, the speed of the new housing for the very new model.

[davichin 18]

great pics!

Ike! take it away from him!

I see a reddish dominance in most of the pics, is that only me?