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Started with a Nikonos III in 1981 but soon moved to a Nikon F photomic, which is still in use.
The Nikon F was housed in a DYFO Sub 35 underwater house together with a actionfinder and a
Micro Nikkor 55mm/2.8 . Changed to Nikon F3 with actionfinder and own built case for a TTL connected
Metz 36 flash which worked perfect for macro shots. Added a Nikkor 20mm/2.8 wide angle lens to the
equipment in 1987. This equipment was used during a travel to the Great Barrier reef in Australia in 1988.
The underwater equipment have changed during the years. Started with Nikonos III in 1981 but soon changed to a housed Nikon F. Has from then keept to the Nikon series from F, F3, F5 and now a Nikon D300. These have been housed in different watertight cases. The main reson for choosing the Nikon F-series cameras was the optical actionfonder which for the F5 is called DA-30. Missing this kind of viewfinder on the D300 and hope it will come in the future. The lenses used includes the 60mm/2.8 and the 105mm/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lenses together with the Nikkor 10.5mm/2.8 and Tokina 10-17mm/3.5-4.5 fisheye lenses behind the 200mm diameter Subal DP-FE2 dome port. Using either of a housed Nikon SB-800 or twin INON Z240-III flashes which are i-TTL connected using a converter made by Heinrichs Weikamp. Major part of the scenic pictures have been taken with a Hasselblad system. The medium format system consist of a Hasselblad 2003 FCW together with the CF FLE 50mm/4.0 Distagon and CF 150mm/4.0 Tessar lenses. Sometimes also the CF 500mm/8.0 Apotessar has been used when there was light enough for this rather slow lens. Almost all the times the proshade for the 50 and 150 lenses was used. Except for UV filters and polarizers there where no filters used at any time. From 2009 the Hasselblad system has been (temporary ?) retired and replaced by a Nikon D3x for scenic pictures mainly together with the fantastic Nikon AF-S 14-24mm/2.8G or the IF-ED or a Nikon AF-S VR 70-200mm/2.8 G. For wildflife pictures there is also a Nikon AFDi 300mm/2.8 ED lens bought 1992 together with the TC-14E and TC-20E teleconverters. For protecion of the equipment different LowePro bags such as the watertight DryZone 200 and Magnum AW are used together with a couple of Underwater Kinetics hard cases. |




