Coastal Traveler - Spring 2008 - (Page 18) coastal shooter Nikon Nikonos-V $250 for the Nikonos – V body and a 35mm lens. Discontinued in 2001, they are still available in excellent condition from Adorama, B&H, and eBay. Jacques Cousteau developed an underwater camera in the early 1960s called the Calypso-Phot, which he subsequently licensed to Nikon. They renamed it Nikonos, which sounds like a Greek demi-god with webbed feet. And that is just how you feel as you emerge from the sea wearing this James Bondish camera slung over one shoulder. The camera lost none of its French fabulousness during its translation into Japanese. It has a black, steel body that makes a noise like a submarine hatch when opened. Its chunky, knobbed controls are a relief from the disembodied touch screens of modern cameras. Nikon developed “water contact” lenses that improve underwater, and are considered the sharpest and most saturated underwater lenses ever made. They also designed an amphibious 35mm lens that is great for a photographic stroll from cafe to kelp forest. An underwater housing for a digital slr costs between $2500 and $4500. The digital cameras they house can store an almost unlimited number of photographs, but will yield shots of inferior quality to the 36-shot Nikonos, which costs $250, complete with lens, in excellent used condition. Shoot underwater nudes of Ursula Andress. Take the film to a good lab and ask that they scan the negatives onto a compact disk. It will cost you $15 for 36 archival shots. This means you would have to shoot 300 rolls of film to equal the cost of an underwater housing that is designed to fit a planned obsolescence. 18 coastaltraveler spring
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