Hi everyone !!!

I don't really know what to do, I have been looking around for a housing for my nikon D100 but few people told me that it maybe better to get the newer Nikon D70 and find a housing for it.
I have been using the D100 here in the Turks & Caicos for the last seven months for land photography and I am not really creazy with it . In the last few days I thought about maybe selling my D100 and getting a D70 and then get the newest Hugyfot for the D70 beacuse I allready have the ports . I know that the viewfinder of the D100 is bigger than the D70 but I don't think that should be such a big difference.
Can you guys help me out with this decision.
Thanks

David

What don't you like about the D100, or more to the point, what do you think the D70 has that is better than the D100?

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond70/page20.asp

What I don't like about the Nikon D100 is that the camera doesn't sync faster than 180th of a second and D70 does. Here in the Turks & Caicos I work as a wedding and family portrait photographer for a private company.We use only Canon cameras 1D and the 1D MarkII , I really love to play with the depth of field when I do weddings and I use alot Aperture Priority , with the Canon 1D or 10D you can set the flash in High Mode and the camera will "sync" with the flash at any aperture witout overexposing the photo.
I try don't use much the flash and use natural light but when you do a wedding here at 12 pm you get a lots of shadows and you need it. I took my D100 and I try few shots with the flash on the beach and I couldn't use any aperture below f10 without overexposing the photo.
I love Nikon and I have been using in the past and N90 and I have must of the lenses for underwater and the only reason I thought about the D70 is because the housing I am thinking to buy Subal or Hugyfot are much cheaper than for the D100 and lighter and I use it for fun shots here and wait for the replacement of the D100 to use for weddings.

David

Sounds like pretty good reasoning to me. If you intend to use the camera for specific topsides tasks it's good to know that too.

There are a lot of good housings for the D70 out there - perhaps you can try out a few if you "pop in" on one of the local live-aboards while it's at the dock?

Cheers
James

Ordinarially I would say that the differences in the D100 and D70 aren't enough to warrant an upgrade. There are some areas where the D70 is better and a few where the D100 has the advantage.

However, if flash sync is a big enough feature to you then the D70 is the only way to go. The D70 sycs faster than anything else out there. Flash sync can also help with sunrays underwater. Other things that you get in the bargin are upgraded flash system with possible future TTL support and faster/usable compressed RAW files that cuts down on storage needs.

Perhaps with the price differential in housings you can pay for the cost of the camera? In this case it definately makes sense.

Hi David,

I remember that Alex has written a nice comparison of both cameras for U/W use. I couldn't find the post, but he told it could be good if you have an occasion to change D100 to D70.
I owe a D70 and I think it's really a great camera for U/W use, especially because it's small. The down part is that its viewfinder is much smaller than the D100 one's.

Michel