Exactly,
the first thing I searched was housings ... but don't really want to take may D300 in to salt water ..... and the idea is to one day be able to send images in to my stock collection -for that the file has to be 48Megas TIFF 8bits--..
After that I looked for digital UW cameras. I think we will see them in the future years. There is one announced that can go 10m but is basically a point and shoot with a shell. (
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0902/09021805canond10.asp)
So I looked for NIKONOS on eBay, and: bingo ! tons of equipment being sold for what casings are.
The advantage of the NIKONOS system is that you can use external strobes that shoot Through The Lens, or TTL.
The V has Aperture priority shutter that works pretty well even with e6 film (remember that? LOL)
Then there is the issue of focusing. Asher, no AF what so ever. Not even a range finder like Leica. You simply have to set it by instinct. I tell you this. It is a good game and not so difficult to get in to. Of course, old photographers like me don't see the numbers w/out glasses, so that makes it even more of a fun game..
My plan is to buy a 28mm lens. I have a 35mm. They make a fish eye, a 20mm, 35mm 28mm and 80mm. There is also an interesting lens developed for the Vietnam War where this camera was apparently very useful in the rain forest. This is a 28mm 2.8 that is splash proof and fits this camera.
The interesting thing of the NIKONOS is that is a range finder with small non-retro-focus lenses.
I don't understand why Nikon has not come up with an equivalent digital model. Some time in the last century they discontinued the NIKONOS rangefinder and came up with a REFLEX NIKONOS that was (and is, even on eBay) exorbitantly expensive.