February 7, 2007 1:05 PM PST

More opportunities for underwater photography

by Candace Lombardi
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Fish photo taken with Nikon FS-9 (Credit: Fantasea)

Look at this cute little guy. Don't you wish you took this picture?

Yeah, I don't really care either because he's not that colorful. But you might find it interesting to know that it was taken from underwater with a Nikon digital camera.

Fantasea (pronounced fantasy) just released another underwater housing for a Nikon Coolpix camera to allow photographers to plunge their gadgets into water, sand, dust and what have you.

FS-9 housing for Nikon S-9 (Credit: Fantasea)

The FS-9, available from Fantasea for about $200, fits the Nikon Coolpix S-9. The housing comes with an anti-glare hood over the camera's 2.5-inch LCD screen and a flash diffuser.

The company also hinted that Fantasea housings for the Nikon D-80 and Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi (that's the Canon EOS 400D or Kiss X for our international friends) will soon be available.

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our world rotating. A journalist who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has written about technology for the sites of The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot. E-mail her at candacelombardi@gmail.com. She is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not a current employee of CNET.
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