Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Aquatica is rated for 90 meters and will go deeper with the stiff spring kit for the buttons. Here's hoping for no floods! Wendy On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > I've used my M8 under water with a Ewa Marine Bag. It was, I'll > admit, a little confronting. The LuG print exchange got a photo of > some tuna taken with that combo. > > But with a bag you never get to hear that ominous chink-chink-CRACK! > of a housing imploding, then watching it fill up as you try to hold > the lens in whatever air remiains, hoping it will survive . . . ! > > Marty > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Wendy Thurman <thurmanphoto at gmail.com> > wrote: > > It is EWA who makes the plastic bag- they are still available. I've got > an > > Aquatica housing for the Nikon stuff. > > > > I'll continue to shoot the M6 here- film lends itself well to > Afghanistan. > > > > Wendy > > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net > >wrote: > > > >> Think of all the money you will save on film and Hewes reels...... > >> > >> I will be the first to ask.... did you get your Dust Removal Apparatus > for > >> a > >> full sized sensor? > >> > >> Lastly... is the past, I think it was EWA that made an underwater > housing > >> for the "generic" camera.... a plastic bag like thing. You COULD put > your > >> brand new M9 in that bag and shoot underwater with a Leica! No dust > >> underwarer.....! > >> > >> Frank Filippone, Dusty for short...... > >> red735i at earthlink.net > >> > >> In the incendiary Zeiss lens thread, Sonny mentioned "Sooner or later > you > >> will buy an M9." B&H emailed me with a pre-order opportunity and I fell > >> for > >> it. The lens budget is blown. I'll be in Indonesia next month diving > but > >> will take the camera (if it arrives in time) for above-water shooting. > >> > >> So much for the zero-balance credit card. > >> > >> Wendy > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >