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I have been diving for 52 years throughout the Caribbean and lived aboard a boat in the Bahamas for three years during that time. I started taking underwater photos 50 years ago when you had to literally carry a sack of flashbulbs with you to use in your Nikonos flash adapter - talk about hassles! (And, yes, we always brought the used bulbs back with us.) I still have two of my old Nikonoi -?- and that same old flash adapter stored away - why, I have no idea. Through the years I graduated from Nikonos to Pentax and Nikon cameras - finally topping out with a beautiful 70 mm motorized Hasselblad in a custom case. Then I got bored with stills and moved into video for a few years. About five years ago I decided to move back into still work and keep up both still and video today. I was totally enthralled by the new digital cameras which had come along during my hiatus into video and promptly bought three Olympus cameras and housings. These were 3 and 4 megapixel cameras and did a great job while still leaving me some control over the outcome. However, since I normally carry two cameas on a dive and sometimes a third for video, I was still looking for smaller. While I was leary at first about a point and shoot camera, I decided to get one and try it out. To my surprise, I got beautiful shots with my new find - the first Sony T100 8 megapixel along with the very compact Sony housing. Since then I have gotten two more sets including the 10 megapixel version. I have blessed you with all this history only in an attempt to assure you that I have used about everything made over the years and, unless you plan to shoot for National Geographic, you don’t need the thousands of dlooars invested to get great pictures. Everything on this website today has been taken with these inexpensive cameras and housings.
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