The depth of field is so massive with this lens that one is almost unaware of the focusing operation. more...

HOWARD ROSENSTEIN of Fantasea Line was an early Red Sea pioneer credited with discovering the wreck of the Dunraven. Now back home in Israel, he runs a company making camera housing and accessories. It is named after his last dive-safari boat, Fantasea II. (That’s now called Pelagian and is alive and well operating in Wakatobi, Indonesia.)
Fantasea Line specialises in making underwater housings for compact cameras, mainly the Nikon Coolpix range.
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The Fantasea CP-6 is intended for use with the Nikon Coolpix 5600, an entry-level digital camera that is, at 85 x 60 x 35mm, quite small. more...

If you want to photograph bigger subjects you need to move away, but with a standard lens this usually means moving too far in order to get everything in. more...

DSLRS IN DX SIZE PRODUCE better-quality pictures than compact digital cameras, because the sensors are bigger. more...

I WAS VERY UNKIND ABOUT THE FUJI F100FD, the forerunner of this compact camera, because I found it could not take a wide-angle lens, and had no means of manual white-balance, two things that rendered this otherwise-worthy product not good for use under water.
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It's been a long time since three young men enthusiastically showed me a prototype. It was originally designed for use as a surveillance device for the British Army in Iraq, an improvement over a mirror on a stick. They wanted to know if it would appeal to British divers, and I said that as tekkies were heavily into having lots of kit, why not? more...

Only a few months ago , I was testing the then-latest Fuji compact camera for these pages when a newer model, the F100fd, was announced. When Fujifilm asked if I wanted to try this camera, I made it promise that it wouldn't replace it with a better model before I could get into print, though I don't know if that will be possible! more...

If you are looking for a simple-to-use compact camera that will give you large prints without pixelation, but that may be a little grainy, this could be the one for you. more...

HAVE TO SAY THAT I AM OFTEN ENVIOUS of those who take pictures under water with a little compact camera. I have to swim about with a big expensive lump in an even bigger housing, slowed down further because I have to push big flashguns along with it too. more...

THE INTOVA DIGITAL DIVING CAMERA seemed to be so simple to use that I gave it to my seven-year-old daughter, who happily used it in the pool at Ocean College in Sharm el Sheikh for
a great deal of the week she seemed to spend in it. more...

I BOUGHT A NEW NIKON D200 and Sea & Sea DX housing, and started having restful nights once more. more...

I would say that for wide-angle photography with a Nikon digital SLR, a 12-24 Zoom Nikkor is probably the only lens you need. more...

The Nikkor DX 10.5mm f/2.8 G gives an angle of view close to 180? on land. That is wide enough to include your feet. more...

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