[Leica] Drenched camera

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

The B&H catalog now has many pages devoted to digital underwater
photography. It seems digital vs. film has made for a boom to underwater
photography. Everybody's doing it its real accessible. All kinds of options
from point and shoots to very high end very expensive. I hope to so some one
of these days before I'm dead.

Mark

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Mark William Rabiner




> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:07:21 +0100 (BST)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Drenched camera
> 
> I agree Larry. Until I went digital I took a Nikonos II fishing. They are 
> good
> value and I liked the 35mm lens a lot.
> FD
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
> To: Leica LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 June, 2011 16:17:51
> Subject: [Leica] Drenched camera
> 
> Peter Cheyne writes:
> 
> "I usually take my Fujifilm Klasse on fishing trips.  Yesterday I
> 
> waded in water too deep for comfort and the camera got submerged.  I
> 
> took the battery out and hoped hanging it around my neck would let
> 
> the sun dry it.  The next day I removed the Neopan 400 B&W film.  I
> 
> had taken only about  11 shots, so cut away the remainder of the
> 
> film.  The Klasse winds all the film onto the free spool first, so
> 
> exposed film is already in the can.  The can is sitting on my desk.
> 
> I'll send it in for developing one of these days.  After sitting on
> 
> my windowsill, the camera is in apparently perfect working order.
> 
> However, I'm thinking of retiring it from fishing trips and using a
> 
> mechanical camera instead.  Maybe one of my Kodak Stereo Cameras
> 
> loaded with Velvia."
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Why not spring for a used Nikonos II or III. These are small, entirely
> mechanical film cameras specifically designed to be waterproof down to 50
> meters. Most old time camera stores or dive stores probably have a half
> dozen of so on the back shelves. I paid only a bit more than $100 for the
> last one I bought. The Nikon 35mm lens usually fitted to the Nikonos is of
> excellent quality and seems to be the perfect focal length for the fihsing
> very nice fishing pictures you show.
> 
> Larry Z
> 
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