Canon 300D .

Purchased the first day it was released back September 2003. Yes, I know, sad. It was my plan to house this for underwater photography. There are lots of housings for this model. Thats a Sigma 15mm Fish Eye lens on it. Nearly all of the photos on the Bahamas trip were taken with this lens. Pretty cool Slr Cam if ya ask me ;-)

Ikelite Housing.
I find this housing easy to use in the water. The grips are wide enough and the shutter release is within easy quick access. I have only used smaller housings for the Canon powershot S series but this is a beast compared to them. There is a few different housings out for the Canon 300D. Ikelite is around the cheapest. Check out www.digideep.com for more info on housings.

The Dome Port is neat and light, although in my first week using it, it has suffered some serious scratches inside and out.

Inon Strobes z220 are pretty powerful. I have produced the best colour so far with these strobes. I also have the twin cable which goes from each strobe into the connector on the housing.

ULCS arms are what connect the housing to the strobes. These are damn expensive for what they are. I never want to buy more of these again. They are pretty convienent though. I like the way it clips into the handles on the housing.

The weight of the camera equipment does make a difference when flying. Be prepared to pay extra if your bringing all your own diving gear too.

Purchasing equipment online.

This is where I purchased my Canon 300D Housing and the front dome port. NOTE: It was not packed properly the first time and when I recieved it, the housing was badly damaged. I had to pay over €60 to ship it back to kansas!! Then another housing was sent to me which was packed properly, thus ok - I ordered most parts of the ULCS arms of this crowd too....I ordered the DUAL sync cord from him too...Everything just seemed to take months rather than days to happen.

This is a european site (Austria) where I purchased my Inon strobes. Highly recommended, if your finding it hard to get your hands on Inon strobes outside the US. I didnt want to pay any more darn IMPORT DUTY. This guy is friendly and will help anyway he can. Also it was COD !! Yes cash on delivery, which to me is great !! The site is in German, so any language converter will be a help ;-) You can translate the site using http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr He has other underwater equipment also. Check it out and if you do decide to buy off him, let him know I sent ya ;-)

I bought the ULCS clips that join the handles to the arms here. Not much to say....Was not as quick as I had hoped. Had to confirm and reconfirm my order then had to enquire as to the whereabouts of the order as it was taking such a long time.

It was 2 weeks to go for my trip to the Bahamas. I still had not all the equipment. I needed two ULCS connectors to go from the arms to the Inon strobe. It must be a specific connector so if your getting ULCS arms, do your research. I was waiting for these connectors from where I bought my housing...Oh probably 2 or 3 months and 3 or 4 phone calls to the states and numereous emails....Still had not arrived so I rang camerasunderwater, they had the parts in stock. A little more than I would have liked to have paid but I was deperate. I had them within the week!!! Oh and the package still hasnt arrived to me from underwatercamerapros. Not that I need em now!

These are printable log book sheets I created for you (and me;-)

In v02 I added a bit of colour, took out some parts and generally made more room for the user coments section.