Beneath the Waves with the Nikon D2X |
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| Published by: Rob Galbraith 01-23-2006 Read Complete Article |
Article Summary
There's no way to be sure, but Alex Mustard could well have been the first person to jump in the ocean with a Nikon D2X. He got his camera in late February 2005, on the first day they were available in Britain. More surprisingly, he was able to get an underwater housing for it almost simultaneously. The Austrian housing manufacturer, Subal, had used the nearly identical body and controls of Nikon's D2H to develop a housing for the D2X before it had even shipped. A plane ticket to the environs of the Red Sea completed the recipe, and a week after taking delivery on Nikon's flagship digital SLR, in early March 2005, Mustard had it submerged in seawater, just where he wanted it.
The results of those initial dives made Mustard very happy. He was impressed first with the D2X's image quality, a "massive jump", in his words, over his previous digital SLR, a Nikon D100. "The D2X is better pixel-to-pixel than the D100 by a clear margin, and it's got twice as many of those pixels," he says.....Read Complete Article
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