Before I start writing, I have to emphasize a very important fact: I decided to write this article from my own will. The article reflects my personal opinion about the product. Nikon did NOT ask me to write this article and Nikon did NOT pay for it. I bought the camera from my own funds with no discount, exactly like all other photographers!

Since 1980 I’ve used many different models of Nikon cameras. Usually I have used them in pairs: a professional camera for underwater photography and a semiprofessional camera for normal photography on land. I've used the models F3 and FM2, F4 and F90, F5 and F100, and D2x and D200. Recently I've changed the D200 for a D3, and so I'm now using two profession cameras: the D2x for underwater photography and the D3 for photography on land. I have to admit that no Nikon product has ever impressed me as much as the D3 did!

Slovenian Underwater Photographers

(Update February 2008)

Although Slovenians are a nation of only two million people with a coastline averaging only two centimetres per capita with a traditional attachment to mountains, we have a significant number of good underwater photographers. Nonetheless, it was Slovenian photographers who in the ex-Yugoslavia first started with diving (1937) and underwater photography (1938).

Here I would like to mention those underwater photographers, who in my personal opinion are the most responsible for the development of underwater photography in Slovenia.

Forty-five years after the Frenchmen Louis Buotan, a professor of zoology at the French sea-exploring station Arago, created his first underwater photographs in 1893 using an enormous camera loaded with photographic plates closed in a copper barrel, which weighed about 200 kg, Slovenian underwater photography was born (1938).

Soon after the purchase of the new AFS Nikkor 70-200/2.8 VR with the vibration reduction function I decided on buying both Nikon teleconverters for AFS lenses – the AFS TC-14E II and the AFS TC-20E II, again after reading quite good internet-published reviews by independent reviewers. I can only use them with the new zoom lens, since my two other zoom lenses (the 17-35/2.8 and the 28-70/2.8) are not optically compatible, but then who would go and mount a teleconverter on a wide-angle lens?! Also, they are not compatible with the other Nikon AF lenses because of the little cam on the inside wall of the bayonet of the teleconverter it does not fit any other lens but the AFS.