Along with Sea & Sea's DX-2G, the Canon S90 stood out. It has a fast f/2 lens at the 28mm end and it is extremely sharp. In terms of exposure control, you have everything you need from fully automatic to fully manual, including a full range of apertures and shutter speeds. These are controlled by a large rotary dial around the lens and a smaller one on the rear body.
The final icing on the cake is that Inon makes a lens mount adaptor that allows its UWL-100 28AD wide-angle lens or close-up lenses to be used. This mount also incorporates a flash diffuser and holder for fibre-optic cables so that external strobes can be fired.
The resulting combination is totally flexible. You can start with the basic camera and housing and then add accessories to make this become a total camera system capable of taking virtually any shots you want.
If you want to build a system right from the start, the Ikelite 6242.90 housing will be less expensive overall as it already has a 67mm front filter thread. This will save you £99.99 on the Inon mount adaptor, but it takes a little more setting up, as a gear ring has to be attached to the camera’s front rotary dial and the external control for this is not as ergonomically placed as the Canon housing. However, it will give you that extra 60m capability if that is important to you.


DIVE says: Top performance from a compact package with total system capability
Value 9/10 Performance 9/10

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