Photographic Gear

All the photos on this Website have been taken with the Nikon Coolpix 5000 in an Ikelite Housing, as shown below. I use Ikelites Manual EV Controllers on both strobes. All camera settings are on Manual. No camera no matter how expensive will give the correct exposure everytime in auto and/or TTL modes.
Nikon Coolpix 5000
An absolute workhorse of a camera, near bullet proof, I am yet to find a better Prosumer camera for underwater use. Real shame they are no longer made, if you have one for sale please let me know.
Ikelite CP5000 Housing
The Ikelite housings are rated to 60m, 170ft, they are the ideal mix of size and function, all controls on the camera are available through the housing. I love the perspex as it makes life easy to use the controls and check for leaks
DS125 Main Strobe
A top strobe heavy duty with a 1 second recycle time between full dumps. fast recharge and a lovely light output, I always use mine with the diffuser for softer natural lighting.
DS50 Fill Strobe
A very deceiving little strobe that packs a huge punch of light when needed, my first strobe and now used for fill and when I need to travel light.
Delight Manual Controller
An absolute must have if you are serious about your lighting and exposure control. The controller gives you 19 output settings for the strobes, I use one on each strobe. The DS125 is connected through the Controller to the cameras hot shoe, the DS50 is fired from the controller with the inbuilt slave. The saves having cables going all over the place.
Video Gear
Felt like expanding my underwater creativity. So I purchased this little rig. Basically I was after a small lightweight housing and camera to take on the deeper wrecks off Sydney, and of course for, it has proved ideal with some brilliant and stunning images, combined with my Mac Laptop it is just so easy to make up a DVD for friends I am diving with. I plan to pick-up a second Greenforce FII HID lighting system or a couple of Greenforce Squids for my lighting
    Sony PC 109 Ikelite Housing Rated 60m GreenForce FII with 50 HID Head