Hugyphot D100

[pmooney 6]

Wondering if any one has used or is using one of these marvels ??

 

I had a look at one of the Leica versions on the week end and was really impressed with the simple style.

 

Apparantly the Hugy people have housings available for D70 , D100 , 300D with them to soon come for D2X and 20D - whos using them ???????????

[jordi 3]

Hi,

 

I have a friend who owns a Hugy D100 housing. It's compact and very ergonomic. He is very happy and now I've just bought a D70 Hugy housing. It is a wonderful housing, but I've just received it yesterday and I still haven't dive it.

 

Best

 

Jordi

[Alex_Mustard 0]

Hugy housings are most popular in mainland Europe - so we tend not to hear about them that much on this English speaking forum!

 

For my money they are excellent housings.

 

Alex

[manatee19 5]

I think that the only brand on the market older than Hugy was the Franke and Heidecke Rolleimarin... or maybe Ike predates the latter.

 

A few years ago in the Caribbean, the captain of a liveaboard was using a borrowed Hugy for the N90s/F90x. He told me that it was the best housing he ever used with this camera.

 

I never worked with one personnally but looking at the satisfaction level of Hugy fans I understand that it is a great product.

 

My personal note regarding the Hugys has always been the shutter release and handles... or absence of the latter on the right side of the unit.

 

Being a long time Aquatica user, I tend to favour straight handles and shutter release levers that are akin to what I am used to.

 

Alex is right, Hugy is way more popular in EC, has to do with distributorship I guess.

 

Michel

[Matetes 0]

Hi,

A couple of month ago, digideep published a story about a housing being bitten by a tiger shark, somewhere around the Bahamas.... Remember?

The bitten housing was/is a Hugy and is still working very well....

Matetes